Subj : Re: This Train Just Went Splat!
To   : alt.tv.er
From : Dropping The Helicopter
Date : Sun Sep 25 2005 17:36:52

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.er

npardue@indiana.edu wrote:
> MauiJNP wrote:
>>>> As noted, when allowed to make the decision, MOST babies wean
>>>> somewhere around 2 or 3 ... not 6 or 35.
>>> All three of my boys weened themselves at about 14 - 16 months of age -
>>> not by my choice, but by theirs. My first heart break of "they're growing
>>> up so quickly!".
>>>
>> its the people that don't accept this fact and force the breastfeeding that
>> bother me.
> 
> What fact?  That babies sometimes wean themselves?  Since you can't
> force a child to breastfeed, it should be pretty obvious.
> 
>   my cousin's wife insisted that her child needed to be breastfed
>> till she was 4 because she was such a lousy eater and wouldn't be healthy
>> otherwise.  also she said that the child cried and wanted the breast.
>> however, whenever the kid was in the same room as solid foods she would dive
>> for them and her mom would take it all away and force the child to breastfed
>> (which she would sometimes fight).
> 
> Sounds like your cousin's wife had some weird problems.

Yep.  Industrial strength, case-harded, large-bore problems.  Nothing 
"natural" or "fine" or "not at all wrong and sick" about it at all.

> IF she wasn't
> aware that children over 6-12 months also need solid foods she was
> poorly educated about parenting -- something that has nothing to do
> with breatsfeeding in and of itself. (Where was the pediatrician when
> all this was happening?) ALso, probably the reason the child was such a
> 'lousy eater' is that she wasn't getting ANYTHING to eat.  You can't
> force a child to nurse,

This mother was.  What do you figure the percentage of 6-year-olds that 
are still breastfeeding are also being forced is?

> so if she refused to let the kid have solids
> AND the child really didn't want to nurse,  the child wouldn't have had
> much of anything to eat.
> 

AND if he got hungry enough, he'd suck the teat.

> Naomi
>

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