Around the Web…

Some links for your Tuesday afternoon:

• Joel Madden and Harlow Winter Kate, 1 on Sunday, enjoy some daddy-daughter time — x17online.com
• 20/20 delves into the world of extreme birthing and breastfeeding — Jezebel
• Does eating apples during pregnancy reduce the risk of having a child with asthma? — lilSugar
• How parents who’ve lost a child find ways to cope — CNN.com
• Needy schools are turning to parents for financial help — Wall Street Journal

Comments

Thanks re: 20/20 article.

It’s nice to see that more and more people are accepting the fact that it’s not “weird” to breastfeed past 2 or 3, and that some absolutely normal every day moms (yes – not just the crunchy tree hugging mama’s!) breastfeed well beyong the second year of their child’s life.

It’s lovely to see people say “Hey, what works for your family is your business” rather than “Ew, I’d never do that”.

- N.S on January 6th, 2009

passed two or three and @ SIX are two different things…

most women from indigenous and third world countries don’t breastfeed for that long… even my relatives in africa stopped after abt 3 or 4. i mean it doesn’t even look like it’s comfortable for either of them…

- fay on January 6th, 2009

I’m all for breast feeding and when I have children I will try to breast feed. However, still breast feeding when the child is school aged is just too weird for me. I don’t want to start an argument but, it wouldn’t be something I’D do.

- Ruth on January 6th, 2009

Sorry nursing a 6 year old child is beyond normal regardless where you live on this planet!!

I nursed my now 17 months old until she was 13 months old,when she wants to be comforted she puts her hand in my shirt and squeezes my breast…very annoying especially in public….sometimes i think maybe I nursed her to long bc my other two never did that

- Simone on January 6th, 2009

I think some of the comments on Jezebel made sense….how is that 6 yr old going to feel if kids from school find out down the road? Why not just pump the breast milk and give it to him in a thermos at school or something? I’m all for women breastfeeding as long as they and their children want (or not breastfeeding) but I just wonder about this particular boy since age 6 is really much older than I’ve heard of before (max I’ve heard of is age 4).

- MZ on January 6th, 2009

I’m with you MZ. If you still want your six year old to have the benefits of breast milk then why not pump?

- Natasha on January 7th, 2009

Natasha, breast milk will not do much for a 6 year old, who needs a different set of nutrition.

- becka on January 8th, 2009

Becka, the woman is just doing supplemental feeds for the 6 year old, it’s not his main source of nutrition. I would assume there still have to be *some* benefits though, or else why would she keep breastfeeding him? I’ll admit I don’t know how long the benefits exist.

- MZ on January 8th, 2009