Thoughts about this??

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-23-2003
Thoughts about this??
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Tue, 03-27-2007 - 11:53am

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iVillage Member
Registered: 12-06-2004
Fri, 03-30-2007 - 7:29pm

Yeah, you have posted the same ridiculous article several times now.

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-12-2006
Fri, 03-30-2007 - 7:38pm

"May I ask why you posted this? Didnt I agree with you but said that I didnt want my children to associate comfort with my breast? I wanted them to associate food with my breast."

Comfort, security, reassurance, soothing, bonding, etc. etc. etc. are basically built in benefits of bfing. Just because you didn't want your children to benefit from these things doesn't mean they didn't. In fact, I would venture to say that most, if not all, children associate comfort, security, reassurance, soothing, and bonding with bfing.

Everything I have ever read on the topic of bfing points to the numerous built in benefits of bfing. Why do you think your children only benefitted from the aspects that you wanted them to? Do you honesty think you have this type of control over your children? Wow! You must be pretty powerful. Omnipotent even.

Did you go through the list of benefits and decide which ones you did and didn't want them to receive? Nutirition, check. Bonding, check. Comfort, nope. Reassurance, nope.

I find it very difficult to believe that your children were never once soothed, comforted, or reassured by bfing. Again, everything I've ever read on the topic points to the numerous built in benefits of bfing in and of itself. I've never heard of someone actively trying to prevent a child from being comforted by bfing. Your POV is truely bizarre. I have to wonder if there is something deeper going on here.

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-15-2006
Fri, 03-30-2007 - 8:06pm
*giggle*
iVillage Member
Registered: 10-12-2006
Fri, 03-30-2007 - 8:07pm

"And your article doesnt support breastfeeding an 8 year old either."

It wasn't meant to. It was however meant to support bfing a school aged child. Which it did.

"Dettwyler writes that nursing a four year old, or even a six year old, is both "normal and natural for humans."

"Small provides evidence for this claim from data from both ancient and contemporary human cultures. Analysis of the remains of American Indian bones from a site near the Missouri River shows definitive evidence that infants were breastfed exclusively for the first year of life and then gradually weaned when they were approximately five years old."

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-15-2006
Fri, 03-30-2007 - 8:12pm

She seem to be getting a bit wound up about the idea that some ppl here believe that breastfeeding school aged children is not necessary.

She has twisted numerous posters words as you have claiming that the opposing opinion is speaking for all ppl.

Which is a totally false statement.

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-12-2006
Fri, 03-30-2007 - 8:17pm

"We are not in ancient times,"

Never said we were. Nor did the article.

"Perhaps even more interesting is the research conducted by Katherine A. Dettwyler, adjunct professor of anthropology and nutrition at Texas A & M University, on both nonhuman primates and on infant nursing practices across a variety of human cultures. Dettwyler writes that nursing a four year old, or even a six year old, is both "normal and natural for humans."

"Small provides evidence for this claim from data from both ancient and contemporary human cultures. Analysis of the remains of American Indian bones from a site near the Missouri River shows definitive evidence that infants were breastfed exclusively for the first year of life and then gradually weaned when they were approximately five years old."

"we are not animals."

Actually we *are* animals :)

iVillage Member
Registered: 12-06-2004
Fri, 03-30-2007 - 8:22pm
Ok seriously, you need to let the article go,

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-21-2001
Fri, 03-30-2007 - 8:47pm

Actually, that's not true.

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-04-1997
Fri, 03-30-2007 - 8:50pm
Really? I was listening to a discussion in my son's youth group the other day...got kind of heavy and the older boys -- high school age -- were talking about what they wanted in a potential mate. One of the boys, who has many younger sibs, came right out and said that he wanted a wife who would be willing to breastfeed his future children, and to hear young women say that the thought of breastfeeding grossed them out was a turn-off to him. Heavy discussion followed, lol.
iVillage Member
Registered: 07-26-2006
Fri, 03-30-2007 - 9:11pm
There are no semantics here. I will take it that you just concede.

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