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As long as you're comfortable with it. There's not a single shred of medical evidence it does any good or bad past the first couple of months, maybe even less, but it's such an emotive subject that people can be absolute idiot cunts about the whole thing.
( , Tue 29 May 2012, 10:21, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)
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Here you go: kellymom.com/ages/after12mo/ebf-refs/
( , Tue 29 May 2012, 10:31, Reply)
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The world average is four years.
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My daughter will be 2 in July. I'm going to attempt to cut out the night feeds then but I might still feed her before bed. We'll see.
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( , Tue 29 May 2012, 10:43, Reply)
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It's easy to forget that what works for one doesn't necessarily work for another.
( , Tue 29 May 2012, 10:46, Reply)
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Most of my parenting decisions are made out of sheer convenience so when feeding and co-sleeping maximised everyone's sleep we went with that. The night wakings aren't too bad now but the early mornings are a killer.
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He was about two years, eight months.
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I don't think that's a very good argument.
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I imagine that one of the reasons the world average is high is because it includes very poor countries where food is scarce and breastfeeding is a free, nutritious option.
( , Tue 29 May 2012, 10:52, Reply)
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It's just an interesting area - I know no-one here is doing it but it's amazing how some people will use the "but look, everyone in third world coutries does x and y so it must good" as a justification for a first world choice when if people just stopped and thought for a single second they would see how idiotically retarded that is.
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I've spent long enough digging up prehistoric homes and tombs to realise I'd like a somewhat more comfortable life than that, please.
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because it's not my place to, and I don't have a strong opinion either way. But you're a scientist... There is no study on anything like this that is able to separate out the actual effect of breast milk with the million other social-economic effects that are going to interfere with the outcome. You can't just take a couple of thousand mothers and lock up for a couple of years them in the controlled environment necessary to have any hope of relevant data.
I don't think it's bad. Logic suggests it's probably good, of course, but there's not any solid evidence and certainly nothing to vaguely back up the level of shit that the fanatics at the extreme end sling at anyone that dares question their choices.
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Still it gives us another weapon with which to judge people.
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but that's the same for many, many things and I think the evidence that is coming out of the studies is indicative of breastfeeding being beneficial. Inferences can be drawn. Scientists aren't always working with cut-and-dried binary results. And fanatics are fanatics - I don't really care how other people feed their child; I care how I feed mine. I wouldn't get worked up over formula feeding but I did raise an eyebrow at the women I saw pouring coke into her child's sippy cup last week.
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but some things are easier to isolate than others, and this is one of the harder ones.
It's about nothing other than personal choice, of course. I just find it interesting the totally out-of-proportion response it generates from some sectors, tbh, and that some people think they have the right to preach about something they don't have any evidence to back up.
Although I think you'd have been justified in fucking cokemum's shit RIGHT up.
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