Thoughts about this??

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Thoughts about this??
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Tue, 03-27-2007 - 11:53am

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Registered: 08-24-2006
Mon, 04-02-2007 - 1:42pm

"Haha, well maybe I just have a more agressive SO? :-)"

Have you ever nursed a child? I'm not being snarky, I am genuinely curious. To me they were nothing the same at all, in technique or in the way it felt physically.

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Registered: 02-06-2006
Mon, 04-02-2007 - 1:42pm

Im not SURE its detrimental, any more than you are sure its not.

My gut instinct is that it could be for children on the brink of sexual development.

So until you or anyone else can point me to a study that shows my gut instinct is demonstratively wrong, I see no reason why I have to change my mind. :-)

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Registered: 03-12-2005
Mon, 04-02-2007 - 1:43pm
Do you mean inappropriate for your family? Or inappropriate for all families?
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Registered: 11-15-2006
Mon, 04-02-2007 - 1:44pm

Your comapring apples to oranges. Your claiming b/c a mother choices to nurse a eight year old is b/c she LIKES IT? That is selfish.

If breastfeeding a eight year old is not a necessary benefit for the child, why do it, b/c you in general like it? PLEASE!




Edited 4/2/2007 1:48 pm ET by xenozany
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Registered: 11-15-2006
Mon, 04-02-2007 - 1:46pm

Well of course i do. However no where has it been proven fact that b/f school aged children is necessary or benificial to the well being of the mother or the child.

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Registered: 08-24-2006
Mon, 04-02-2007 - 1:48pm

"I would not claim b/f a eight year old abusive, it view it as unnecessary and innappropriate in raising happy healthy self sufficent well rounded children."

Why does something have to be necessary to be ok? I think people only see it as inappropriate because it's outside of the norm, and outside of their personal comfort level. But I don't see how anyone is being hurt by it, so why the need to cast judgement? Some people say the same thing about nursing a 2 year old or a three year old, but I've seen no evidence that it's detrimental.

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Registered: 03-15-2007
Mon, 04-02-2007 - 1:48pm
I haven't said it's detrimental. It still has not been proven beneficial. There would have to be some benefit to make it reasonable. If you don't think that a 7 or 8 year old still nursing would not be ridiculed... well then you have much to learn I guess.
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Registered: 09-04-1997
Mon, 04-02-2007 - 1:51pm

I have read cultural anthropologists who claim that in other societies, children sometimes occasionally breastfeed up until the time their second teeth come in. So breastfeeding at seven or eight seems to be within the range of human behavior. Whether it's necessary or not is not the point. A lot of things that humans do are not "necessary" to their development or survival.

That said, I still think, that within this culture, breastfeeding an eight year old child MAY (not DOES, but MAY) be a warning signal that all is not well with the child's development. We certainly expect that most infantile behaviors will be on the way out by then.

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Registered: 03-15-2007
Mon, 04-02-2007 - 1:53pm

http://www.publichealthreports.org/userfiles/121_1/121051.pdf

This is just a CA study, but I have read other studies that find a similar relationship across the board. I'll try and find it.

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Registered: 08-24-2006
Mon, 04-02-2007 - 1:53pm
I highly doubt there are enough people out there nursing to the age of 8 to even perform a study. There is only one that has even been identified in this entire thread. What do we even know about this child? Nothing! Nothing besides the fact that they apperently still nurse. I don't understand how someone can just decide that it's a bad thing based only on that.

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