Comments on: Mother's Milk: Room for Two (Tandem Nursing) http://ecochildsplay.com/2008/08/06/mothers-milk-room-for-two-tandem-nursing/ Green and Natural Parenting for Eco-Friendly Families Thu, 24 May 2012 17:04:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: hannah http://ecochildsplay.com/2008/08/06/mothers-milk-room-for-two-tandem-nursing/#comment-4463 hannah Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:21:41 +0000 http://ecochildsplay.com/?p=1302#comment-4463 Old Hippie Mom here again. Just wanted to add my two cents. My fourth and fifth babies were only 20 months apart (didn't want the fourth to be virtually an only child, and I was nearly 40) and though my 20 mo. had tapered off in my last months of pregnancy, she was so excited when my milk came in, it was hilarious! like I had be holding out on her! Sadly, my first baby, Benjamin, died suddenly at 16, during a birth injury related seizure, and I was plunged into a place I had no bearings in. The only thing I knew was that I would continue nursing my babies. I nursed them both till they were 5. Not all the time, for the last few years, and I even was able to take time off traveling. I think people put so many rules out there for nursing mothers and babies, that women stop nursing rather than take the chance that they can be flexible when their babies get older. I wasn't sitting out on a bench nursing my 4-5 yo babes. By then it was mostly a comforting thing, a settling down thing, a connection thing. They both have turned out great, the youngest, a boy, has the healthiest attitude toward women I have known, and all my children benefited from the 'normalization' of the nursing phase of the mother-child relationship. Just don't over-intellectualize it, or stress over it. I didn't have a mother who nursed, so no help there, and my first was born in 72, still in the dark ages. When I nursed my first at my uncle's lilywhite country club, I thought they would die, but everyone survived, and my cousins thanked me later. peace to you, and nurse your babes! Old Hippie Mom here again. Just wanted to add my two cents. My fourth and fifth babies were only 20 months apart (didn’t want the fourth to be virtually an only child, and I was nearly 40) and though my 20 mo. had tapered off in my last months of pregnancy, she was so excited when my milk came in, it was hilarious! like I had be holding out on her! Sadly, my first baby, Benjamin, died suddenly at 16, during a birth injury related seizure, and I was plunged into a place I had no bearings in. The only thing I knew was that I would continue nursing my babies. I nursed them both till they were 5. Not all the time, for the last few years, and I even was able to take time off traveling. I think people put so many rules out there for nursing mothers and babies, that women stop nursing rather than take the chance that they can be flexible when their babies get older. I wasn’t sitting out on a bench nursing my 4-5 yo babes. By then it was mostly a comforting thing, a settling down thing, a connection thing. They both have turned out great, the youngest, a boy, has the healthiest attitude toward women I have known, and all my children benefited from the ‘normalization’ of the nursing phase of the mother-child relationship. Just don’t over-intellectualize it, or stress over it. I didn’t have a mother who nursed, so no help there, and my first was born in 72, still in the dark ages. When I nursed my first at my uncle’s lilywhite country club, I thought they would die, but everyone survived, and my cousins thanked me later.

peace to you, and nurse your babes!

]]> By: Mrs. Domino http://ecochildsplay.com/2008/08/06/mothers-milk-room-for-two-tandem-nursing/#comment-4464 Mrs. Domino Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:15:06 +0000 http://ecochildsplay.com/?p=1302#comment-4464 Hm. Tandem nursing is something that hadn't even occured to me. I've only got one, but will begin trying for another child soon. I'm impressed with you for pulling this off. I can't imagine the acrobatics! Hm. Tandem nursing is something that hadn’t even occured to me. I’ve only got one, but will begin trying for another child soon. I’m impressed with you for pulling this off. I can’t imagine the acrobatics!

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