Baby returned to on-demand breastfeeder after international outcry

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Comment by Jessica Lee on July 6, 2011 at 4:44pm

just to clear up Freedom L Sutcliffe i feel 18 months is a good time because at that point with my children they were mostly on solid foods drinking maybe one to two bottles of milk per day the rest was juices and water at the same time i also said whatever floats your boat lol my way of saying do what you are comfortable with i dont feel that ever child is the same so it depends on the parent and the health of the child personally when my kids started cutting teeth and i couldnt get them to stop biting me i weaned them onto bottles and only pumped but i baby sat a child that was 5 and his mom still was allowing him to breastfeed and that is just gross i had to quit because it wierded me out that he walked up to his mom and lifted up her shirt and could open her bra that is a big no no my so is five and i couldnt even imagine

Comment by Katie on July 6, 2011 at 4:21pm

Most people feel that babies should be weaned at 1 year. However babies are suppose to be weaned when they get their full set of teeth 26mo) to eat food on their own. If you look at mother nature, this is how it works in the animal world. The only reason why we feel its weird or gross is because we we taught to believe that way through years of indoctrination. However, I personally don't want my child sucking on me at that age but I will pump and give her my milk in a cup beings she will never have dairy anyhow...

 

Comment by Freedom L Sutcliffe on July 6, 2011 at 2:14pm

With the exception of when to wean (18 mos???) I agree with @Jessica Lee completely. My son is almost 2 and I would still BF him if I didn't deploy overseas. Usually around 2 the child will wean himself or you can BF at home if concerned about what other ppl think. I think there is an age limit (like 5) but ever body is different.  ***But as far as why ppl took her baby away, I am sure it's because she was still BFing...a lot of people don't understand and it's a shame.

 

 

Comment by Jessica Lee on July 6, 2011 at 2:06pm

i feel like they just didnt think she should be still breastfeeding a baby at that age and i say whatever floats your boat but aroud a year and a half the child should be weaned off of the breast and mostly onto solid foods and if you still feel you want them to have breast milk you pump it and give it to the child in a bottle and hold them close for the bonding time i am a breastfeeding mother and do not give my daughter a bottle yet unless i she needs to eat and i am somewhere i cant stop and breastfeed but most of the time ill just go in a bathroom or something and feed her but she is only almost 2 months old so i am not against breastfeeding at all but at a certain age u gotta wean the child with that said i feel in this case the mother being homeless she may not have had the money for food for the child in which case she did what she had to do and they shouldnt have been able to take that child but you see this mother get her child taken away for breastfeeding too much but in the news a mother kills her child for whatever reason and dumps her in the woods and she gets away with the murder ugh it is a shame what our society is capable of grr....

Comment by NewOrleansMamma on July 5, 2011 at 10:45pm

I feel like there has got to be more to this story. Who woudl take a child away from a mother that was feeding her? There must be something missing

Comment by Sarah Williams on July 5, 2011 at 7:43pm

This story makes me lose trust in government. That anyone could think nursing a child on demand is a bad thing, I just don't understand. My son is 14 months old and I still nurse him and have no plans of stopping anytime soon. FOr the first 6 months, I nursed him every 1 to 2 hours or whenever he wanted and was often stuck underneath him in between because he fell asleep. I wouldn't have changed anything about that!

Comment by Valerie Bledsoe on July 4, 2011 at 10:13am

oh and to add to my earlier comment...... if she has a LOW milk supply like i did  she HAS to feed on demand to m,ake sure the baby gets what she needs.. did they look into that ? probably not.. i could feed my baby for and hour and 30 mins later he was hungry again because i couldnt makie enough in one sitting..which why i eventually switched to formula..

Comment by Valerie Bledsoe on July 4, 2011 at 10:10am

on the info we are given i think this is totaly cruel not just to the mother but to the baby as well. she has spent every day of her life  being fed on demand.. and as long as she wasnt unhealthy . as in over weight or somthing  dont see a problem.. i personlay only breast fed my childen for the first 6 months but there are new study showing the breast feeding for the first or 2 is better for the baby anyway

Comment by Natalia on July 4, 2011 at 9:41am

... Reason, Doesn't Spain has much better maternity leave laws than we do, supporting the extra time of mother and baby? I just can't imagine someone telling a mother they have to wean her baby or else. The baby was still young. It's not like she was 4! Poor baby.

Comment by Natalia on July 4, 2011 at 9:38am

If that's true, it's very sad. But I would imagine there would be more to this story.

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