At the age of 3 years and 8 months, you stopped breastfeeding. Over the last months there have been odd nights when you’ve gone to bed without that one feed that helps you get off to sleep, because I’ve been out teaching or something. Gradually the supply of milk has dwindled to nothing; you say it’s been like that for a while now.

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It’s a year since I took my first breastfeeding class. I came home buzzing that night, and very highly motivated to finish my training so that I could start teaching on a regular basis. I qualified as a Breastfeeding Counsellor back in June, and since then I’ve been teaching two or three classes a week. Last week, there were four.

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mothers who choose not to breastfeed are accepting an unknown level of risk on behalf of each specific child. For some children, not being breastfed may have no lasting significant impact, but for others it will mean illness or even death. It is difficult to understand how denying this ambiguity (by claiming that formula-feeding carries no risks at all), or claiming that breastfeeding is oppressive, contributes to woman’s “sense of bodily, emotional, and psychological autonomy.” On the contrary, withholding information, or misleading women about the consequences of the choices they make, is intensely paternalistic and anti-feminist. A woman whose wants for “a sense of bodily, emotional, and psychological autonomy” are so intense that she would consider risking her child’s health and cognitive development to meet them may well decide against having children at all – which should be her choice to make.

Bye-bye Bottle: Breastfeeding Baby Dolls are Here | Thingamababy.

Honestly, I don’t know where I stand on this.

“In addition to the short-term issues of hygiene and safety, it is possible that errors in the measurement and over concentration of bottle feeds may contribute to overfeeding, rapid infancy weight gain and later obesity.

However “it was possible that the reason for this symptom may not have been intolerance but overfeeding,” the researchers said..