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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lots of parenting books advise parents to stop using the bottle when the child turns 1 yrs old, and to teach them to use a cup to drink.  It's better for their oral development, healthier teeth, etc.  Shouldn't the same thing apply to breast feeding as well - better for the child's oral development to learn to drink from a cup and not the nipple?[/quote]

Oh, the many, many layers of ignorance.

1) The human nipple is not like a rubber nipple.  It co-evolved with the infant's body for ideal oral development.  The entire nipple flattens and shapes to the mouth and requires coordinated motion to express milk.

2) breastfed kids also drink from cups.  My daughter nursed past age three and never used a bottle.

3) Stop trying to come up with reasons why something obviously normal and natural is not normal and natural.  [/quote]

Of course she never used a bottle.  By three she was chewing up thick pieces of steak WITH HER TEETH.

[b]It's NOT about the child; it's about the women who need this attachment to fill a void, to give them a purpose.  
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Oh, god, just stop projecting.  EBF was a challenge during a very busy, exciting, and purpose-filled part of my life.  If there were anything else that offered the same benefits, I would have weaned when she had colic and it was fucking killing me, or when I got my first plugged duct, or during the biting phase, instead of working through the issues.  Most women who EBF go through predictable stages of wanting to quit but recognizing that their kids do still need it.  For me, it was worth frontloading the work of normal breastfeeding to have a child with a shitkicking immune system that has saved me a ton of time and worry over the years.

Hard to believe that the same people who are freaking the hell out all over this board over minor differences in schooling cannot understand why another mother would make a considered decision to breastfeed for maximum benefit.  News flash: you cannot buy IQ.

Strange Sex watcher/deep thinker: really?  Why isn't the entire majority world full of breastmilk fetishists?  The vast majority of American ANR practitioners were weaned early and/or formula fed.  Really.  Go read the boards.  [/quote]

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