Poll Results: How Old Is Your Nursling?
November 19, 2006 by Angela White, J.D., breastfeeding counselor
Filed under extended breastfeeding, poll, toddler nursing
Thanks to everyone who participated in the first poll: How Old Is Your Nursling? See the side bar for the new poll about nursing in public! For the number junkies out there, here are the results from How Old Is Your Nursling:
I am pregnant: 2 (3%)
0-3 months: 9 (15%)
3-6 months: 5 (8%)
6-9 months: 12 (20%)
9 months to 1 year: 10 (16%)
1 year to 1.5 years: 8 (13%)
1.5 years to 2 years: 5 (8%)
2 years to 3 years: 0 (0%)
3 years to 4 years: 1 (2%)
4 years or older: 2 (3%)
My child(ren) weaned: 6 (10%)
I am not nursing: 1 (2%)
I made a couple of fun graphs to illustrate the results.
The distribution:
The results when condensed into one-year ranges (0-1 year, 1-2 years etc.):
What I want to know is: where are all the 2-3 year old nurslings?! We had a 3-year-old and two 4-year-olds, but no 2-3s. That will be my toddler in just another month!
I can’t wait to see your views on nursing in public, particularly in light of the nurse-ins in Texas and Vermont recently.
How do you vote if one is 16 months and one will be 4 in a month? LOL!!
No spot there for tandem nursing moms
Luckily the poll can be set up to allow people to vote twice LOL. Most times I don’t set it that way in case people try to “stuff the ballot box.” You’re right though, it would have been nice if I’d given the choice “which nursling?” May have to run this poll again in the future!
Good to hear from the tandem nursing camp!