http://www.webtvhub.com/extreme-breastfeeding-video-how-old-is-too-old/ Internet Television and Online Video Entertainment Blog Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:56:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.webtvhub.com/extreme-breastfeeding-video-how-old-is-too-old/comment-page-1/#comment-33632 Doris Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:48:27 +0000 http://www.webtvhub.com/extreme-breastfeeding-video-how-old-is-too-old/#comment-33632 I applaud Veronica. It takes courage to go against the system; and I totally agree how ridiculous it is that our society thinks it's OK to show the breasts, and more, for sexual reasons, but not OK to show the breasts when breastfeeding. If there's ever a time when it should be OK to show the breasts, it should be then. And as far as nursing older children, I think those children who get that opportunity are darn lucky. My two younger children breastfed long, and my youngest remembers it fondly, just like Eliza and Bethany do. She remembers it as a great source of comfort. When she turned 3, I wanted to stop breastfeeding because I was getting flack from others, and I didn't want to go through that again, as I had with my first. But I realized she really wanted to continue, and needed that comfort, so I continued. So I was meeting her needs, not mine, though I enjoyed the closenest we shared. How can that be wrong? We should praise the Moms who meet the needs of their children in that way. I truly believe these children will be way ahead of most in the end, with comfort with their bodies and comfort with intimacy etc. And as they get to be teens, perhaps they will not be so desperate as I was for physical connection and confuse, as I did, sex for real intimacy. Again, kuddos to Veronica and to her husband for supporting her, and kuddos to all women who follow their hearts, and do for their children, what their instincts tell them is right. I applaud Veronica. It takes courage to go against the system; and I totally agree how ridiculous it is that our society thinks it’s OK to show the breasts, and more, for sexual reasons, but not OK to show the breasts when breastfeeding. If there’s ever a time when it should be OK to show the breasts, it should be then.
And as far as nursing older children, I think those children who get that opportunity are darn lucky. My two younger children breastfed long, and my youngest remembers it fondly, just like Eliza and Bethany do. She remembers it as a great source of comfort. When she turned 3, I wanted to stop breastfeeding because I was getting flack from others, and I didn’t want to go through that again, as I had with my first. But I realized she really wanted to continue, and needed that comfort, so I continued. So I was meeting her needs, not mine, though I enjoyed the closenest we shared. How can that be wrong? We should praise the Moms who meet the needs of their children in that way. I truly believe these children will be way ahead of most in the end, with comfort with their bodies and comfort with intimacy etc. And as they get to be teens, perhaps they will not be so desperate as I was for physical connection and confuse, as I did, sex for real intimacy.
Again, kuddos to Veronica and to her husband for supporting her, and kuddos to all women who follow their hearts, and do for their children, what their instincts tell them is right.

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