This lil piggie won't wean, wean, wean

[mamagotcha]

http://www.lalecheleague.org/NB/NBMayJun95p86.html

Some folks have hinted that my California trip would be a good time to wean. I probably won't, and this article explains why. Just an FYI... nobody's been pushy at all about it.

Comments

[kenoster.livejournal.com]

What is the argument against weaning later?

[lauradi7.livejournal.com]

I remember a La Leche meeting at which a kid refused the breast offered to him and said that he wanted the other one. He was beyond toddler age, and I remember thinking that if he was old enough to be obnoxious to his mother, he was old enough to stop deriving nourishment from her.

[uncanny-npl.livejournal.com]

Just to throw this in: I breastfed both my girls till they were three or three-and-a-half. Maybe four, in Hannah's case, since she seemed to need it so much, as a cocoon-ish respite from an overstimulating world, and it was also one of our warmest and only surefire ways of bonding. (Hannah was autistic.) In each case they gradually weaned themselves rather than my weaning them. And it honestly never entered my mind to wonder what society might think of it all--mostly because I was too isolated and naive at the time to imagine them caring one way or another. Anyway, whatever process seems natural and instinctive is probably right, I imagine. Like toilet training--which also came late here--it's nothing to feel pressured about.