Breastfeeding is the ONLY healthy infant food

June 4, 2003

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>>Breast feeding until age 3 or 4 sounds good, but I was wondering what

>>the experience is like for the mother after the baby's teeth come in?

>>How does one deal with this? Just curious.

>>Also, does breast feeding actually have a contraceptive effect, as I

>>have heard somewhere?

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I breast fed the son that I birthed for three years. It is incredibly

easy (after the first few weeks of learning how!) to breastfeed long-

term. And healthy (duh). My son came down with severe athsma two weeks

after he weaned. Seems my antibodies were protecting him all that time.

And his lungs were big enough to handle it at 3.

And there is an easy way to handle biting (which hurts!!). If they bite,

you pinch their nose and cut off their air until they stop. Simple. It

takes about three times. And then they don't bite any more. Easy!

I breastfed the son that we adopted for five 1/2 months (which is the

current La Leche League record for breastfeeding adopted kids in our

area! YAY!). I wish it could have been longer, but my body just gave

out. And hey, it's longer than for some folks who birth them!

And, in case the inevitable questions come up, yes, it's perfectly easy

to breastfeed a kid you didn't birth. You just pump. Period. Two days

after I started pumping my breasts in preparation for the birth of our

second son, I had colostrum. Our bodies are miracles.

And now we return to our regularly scheduled rawness (hey, what's more

raw than breastfeding, right?)

-- Corrie

" In war we're tough and able

Quite indefatigable

Between our quests

We sequin vests

And impersonate Clark Gable

It's a busy life in Camelot -

I have to push the pram a lot. "

-- " Monty Python and the Holy Grail "

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