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11-03-2008, 01:31 PM
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Concerned Mommy,
I agree! I can't believe all the fat little kids I see running around nowadays. How can a 13 year old be fat? How can a 5 year old be fat?
Their parents feed them junk. And it's all to common.
So I really don't understand the "concern" over a toddler sucking on the breast for a few extra years or humans drinking cow's milk. Milk and cream is in half the stuff we eat. You almost have to work hard to stay away from it.
So, yes, I think a few on this board are getting a little over worried...
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11-03-2008, 01:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Woof Woof Woof!
Concerned Mommy,
I agree! I can't believe all the fat little kids I see running around nowadays. How can a 13 year old be fat? How can a 5 year old be fat?
Their parents feed them junk. And it's all to common.
So I really don't understand the "concern" over a toddler sucking on the breast for a few extra years or humans drinking cow's milk. Milk and cream is in half the stuff we eat. You almost have to work hard to stay away from it.
So, yes, I think a few on this board are getting a little over worried...
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I don't think anyone is actually "concerned" that humans drink cow's milk. I know that I was pointing out that it is unnecessary to drink cows milk. The same way some people were saying it was unnecessary to nurse until your child is 8. |
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11-03-2008, 01:37 PM
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Good point! Funny how we as a society see a child eating cheetos while drinking red koolaid as normal, but a child drinking breastmilk from his or her mother unnatural and abnormal.
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Haha - yah, we should obviously ban the sale of cheetos because they are not "needed".  |
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11-03-2008, 01:38 PM
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Originally Posted by 2girlsand2boys
I don't think anyone is actually "concerned" that humans drink cow's milk. I know that I was pointing out that it is unnecessary to drink cows milk. The same way some people were saying it was unnecessary to nurse until your child is 8.
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Ditto. And I was just pointing out that human milk is the default choice, and cow's milk is the substitute - NOT the other way around as some people seem to think! |
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11-03-2008, 01:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Kali's Grandma
I'm sorry, I just find it creepy for a walking, talking human to be sucking on their mother's breast.
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Why? What is your basis for that reasoning? You have been conditioned to think of breasts in a sexual fashion and can't get past that.
If I stopped nursing when my kids were "walking, talking humans" they would have been about 10 months old. Your theory is ridiculous. |
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11-03-2008, 02:07 PM
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Haha - yah, we should obviously ban the sale of cheetos because they are not "needed". |
What's scary is that in some neighborhoods that I've had the ... (ahem)... "privilege" to live in, what's "normal" is your kid having all his or her front teeth capped by age 3 or 4 due to "baby bottle mouth" and kool-aid in the bottle, and people think it's weird if your kid still has healthy teeth at age 3! But yeah, when I was nursing a child over the age of 2, I was the weirdo.  |
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11-03-2008, 02:40 PM
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Originally Posted by 2girlsand2boys
I don't think anyone is actually "concerned" that humans drink cow's milk. I know that I was pointing out that it is unnecessary to drink cows milk. The same way some people were saying it was unnecessary to nurse until your child is 8.
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Right. I hear ya. Agreed! |
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11-03-2008, 02:52 PM
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Originally Posted by 2girlsand2boys
Why? What is your basis for that reasoning? You have been conditioned to think of breasts in a sexual fashion and can't get past that.
If I stopped nursing when my kids were "walking, talking humans" they would have been about 10 months old. Your theory is ridiculous.
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My bad...I should have realized that yours was the only opinion that mattered.
And NO, do NOT EVER think you know what my "conditioning" is. That comment was very rude and insulting.
You are now on ignore....if you can't answer without being insulting, I have no desire to inter act-with you.
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11-03-2008, 02:58 PM
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Has the Le Leche league taken a stance on this?
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11-03-2008, 03:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Capt. Dan
Has the Le Leche league taken a stance on this?
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La Leche League encourages mothers to continue to breastfeed ideally until the baby outgrows the need. Breastfeeding is a relationship between two human beings and, as in any relationship, there is give and take. THE WOMANLY ART OF BREASTFEEDING does not set rules about how long to breastfeed, but it does suggest that weaning is best done "gradually, with love" for both the mother's and baby's sake. Weaning is a personal decision made by the mother with the baby's and her own needs in mind.
LLLI | Weaning as a Natural Process |
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