Do FFers know this risk?
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Do FFers know this risk?
| Sat, 07-18-2009 - 4:15pm |
Do most FFing parents know powdered infant formulas are not commercially sterile products? How much of a risk is a E. sakazakii infection? Is it only a risk to premature and low-weight babies? According to the WHO article below, "infants under 2 months of age are at greatest risk."
According to the FDA, "a

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***Do you mean you get to say whatever you want, without being called on it, just because YOU perceive something to be within the bounds of "common sense"? You made a broad generalization about childhood speech development, and I was curious as to how you arrived at that conclusion. I don't "win" anything at all, but you don't either get to make sweeping statements that have little to no basis in fact.****
Sweeping? I've yet to see a 3 year old not know how to speak. I have seen speech impediments, but the child was able to try to speak.
***I happen to be the mother of child who did not utter one intelligible word until after his third birthday. He was (and still is) a nursing toddler/preschooler. He did not "ask" to nurse in any verbal way at all. When you say that children who can ask for "boobie" should no longer be nursing, I'd like to know whether the child who is at an age where his PEERS can "ask for boobie", even when he cannot, should also not be allowed to continue nursing simply because of his age. Or is it just the ability to ask? Because if it is, there are children out there under a year old who could feasibly be asking verbally to nurse. I would have been one of them myself, had I been given the opportunity to nurse past the newborn stage. My son was at the opposite end of the spectrum, unable to verbalize at three, but still allowed to nurse.***
I have no comment here.
***You don't think older nursers are "regular kids"? Seriously?!***
Ok, *regular* was the wrong term to use, it just flew outta me.
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And there are some kids who don't speak at all, even at 3. Whether you have had personal experience with them or not. And in all of this, you haven't answered my question: if a child is 3 and still unable to verbalize that he wants to nurse, should he be allowed to?
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Why not?
***I fail to see how a 10-month-old is supposed to change his or her own diaper. Can you please explain the process by which that would happen?***
That is a sweeping generalization as you call it. You have never seen a 10 month old potty training and able to recognize their body signals to go pee and pull up their own pants, let alone take off their own diaper and put a fresh one on? Do you think a 10 month old has no capability to learn this? Well my daughter is the first then, or second rather, because her dad was also fully potty trained by one year old.
***How many older nursing children have you actually seen?***
see my former posts on that topic
***I happen to be the mother of child who did not utter one intelligible word until after his third birthday. He was (and still is) a nursing toddler/preschooler. He did not "ask" to nurse in any verbal way at all. When you say that children who can ask for "boobie" should no longer be nursing, I'd like to know whether the child who is at an age where his PEERS can "ask for boobie", even when he cannot, should also not be allowed to continue nursing simply because of his age. Or is it just the ability to ask? Because if it is, there are children out there under a year old who could feasibly be asking verbally to nurse. I would have been one of them myself, had I been given the opportunity to nurse past the newborn stage. My son was at the opposite end of the spectrum, unable to verbalize at three, but still allowed to nurse.***
I have no comment here.>>
Surely you must have some comment. You took the time to paste an entire portion of her post, only to say you had no comment about it?
****I have no idea what you're saying.
I believe what they were confused about (and I was too) is where that fit in with the child asking to nurse, and the part about the pecking order.
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