Babylune » moving-on-from-breastfeeding http://www.blisstree.com/babylune Adventures in post-partum recovery. Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:20:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 A Look Back at Breastfeeding Controversies http://www.blisstree.com/babylune/a-look-back-at-breastfeeding-controversies/ http://www.blisstree.com/babylune/a-look-back-at-breastfeeding-controversies/#comments Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:31:11 +0000 kate baggott http://www.babylune.com/a-look-back-at-breastfeeding-controversies/ Post from: Babylune

]]> This year, all the controversies surrounding breastfeeding are about what it looks like. Last year, the controversies surrounded whether or not breastfeeding itself leads to a higher IQ, or if babies who are breastfed are smarter because their mothers tend be better educated than women who choose not to breastfeed.  As Mike reported at Be A Good Dad, misinformation about the defenses breastfeeding provides against asthma and allergies is also still being perpetuated.  It makes me want to cry.

My own breastfeeding days are coming to an end. I’ve got almost no milk left and, while my little girl prefers to go to sleep after a quick nurse, that isn’t a possibility most nap times when I am at work and she’s in day care. I wanted her to have the option of nursing for just as long as her older brother did, but it looks like life has other plans.  Still, I don’t regret one moment of the time I spent breastfeeding and it has been a long time.

I just hope that as I move on, I don’t forget the other mothers and mothers to be, who need me to remember how hard it could be. I hope I remember to give them calm words of encouragement and to pass along information as I need to.

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