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Keepercjr

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Tina - Yes Logan is still nursing. I am following child led weaning w/ him (and I will do the same w/ Scarlett). Weaning at a year or earlier is normal for our society there are still lots of people who nurse toddlers. They just don't talk about it to anyone. It is a lot more common than you might think <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

Leah - When is your DW going back to work?
 
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Keepercjr

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Tina - Yes Logan is still nursing. I am following child led weaning w/ him (and I will do the same w/ Scarlett). Weaning at a year or earlier is normal for our society there are still lots of people who nurse toddlers. They just don't talk about it to anyone. It is a lot more common than you might think <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

Leah - When is your DW going back to work?
 
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Keepercjr

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Tina - Yes Logan is still nursing. I am following child led weaning w/ him (and I will do the same w/ Scarlett). Weaning at a year or earlier is normal for our society there are still lots of people who nurse toddlers. They just don't talk about it to anyone. It is a lot more common than you might think <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

Leah - When is your DW going back to work?
 
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Keepercjr

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Tina - Yes Logan is still nursing. I am following child led weaning w/ him (and I will do the same w/ Scarlett). Weaning at a year or earlier is normal for our society there are still lots of people who nurse toddlers. They just don't talk about it to anyone. It is a lot more common than you might think <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

Leah - When is your DW going back to work?
 
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Keepercjr

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Tina - Yes Logan is still nursing. I am following child led weaning w/ him (and I will do the same w/ Scarlett). Weaning at a year or earlier is normal for our society there are still lots of people who nurse toddlers. They just don't talk about it to anyone. It is a lot more common than you might think <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
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<br />Leah - When is your DW going back to work?
 
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tinamarie4685

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oh okay... I have a friend who has a 16 month old son and he still wants to nurse and she is trying so hard to get him to the bottle... I guess I was just surprised that Logan is going to be 4 years old and is still nursing... I remember when I was 4 I knew what "boobies" were. I am not trying to offend you by ANY means, I totally respect your decision as a mother, and you know what is best for your children... it just seems a bit odd to me to be nursing an almost 4 year old boy... even if he was still bottle feeding at his age, that would seem odd to me. I've just always seen toddlers (age 2+) eating regular foods.
 
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tinamarie4685

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oh okay... I have a friend who has a 16 month old son and he still wants to nurse and she is trying so hard to get him to the bottle... I guess I was just surprised that Logan is going to be 4 years old and is still nursing... I remember when I was 4 I knew what "boobies" were. I am not trying to offend you by ANY means, I totally respect your decision as a mother, and you know what is best for your children... it just seems a bit odd to me to be nursing an almost 4 year old boy... even if he was still bottle feeding at his age, that would seem odd to me. I've just always seen toddlers (age 2+) eating regular foods.
 
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tinamarie4685

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oh okay... I have a friend who has a 16 month old son and he still wants to nurse and she is trying so hard to get him to the bottle... I guess I was just surprised that Logan is going to be 4 years old and is still nursing... I remember when I was 4 I knew what "boobies" were. I am not trying to offend you by ANY means, I totally respect your decision as a mother, and you know what is best for your children... it just seems a bit odd to me to be nursing an almost 4 year old boy... even if he was still bottle feeding at his age, that would seem odd to me. I've just always seen toddlers (age 2+) eating regular foods.
 
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tinamarie4685

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oh okay... I have a friend who has a 16 month old son and he still wants to nurse and she is trying so hard to get him to the bottle... I guess I was just surprised that Logan is going to be 4 years old and is still nursing... I remember when I was 4 I knew what "boobies" were. I am not trying to offend you by ANY means, I totally respect your decision as a mother, and you know what is best for your children... it just seems a bit odd to me to be nursing an almost 4 year old boy... even if he was still bottle feeding at his age, that would seem odd to me. I've just always seen toddlers (age 2+) eating regular foods.
 
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tinamarie4685

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oh okay... I have a friend who has a 16 month old son and he still wants to nurse and she is trying so hard to get him to the bottle... I guess I was just surprised that Logan is going to be 4 years old and is still nursing... I remember when I was 4 I knew what "boobies" were. I am not trying to offend you by ANY means, I totally respect your decision as a mother, and you know what is best for your children... it just seems a bit odd to me to be nursing an almost 4 year old boy... even if he was still bottle feeding at his age, that would seem odd to me. I've just always seen toddlers (age 2+) eating regular foods.
 
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Keepercjr

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Tina

Logan eats just like any 3.5 yo. The nursing mainly for comfort at this point, like when he wakes up and before bed (and it is helping to ease his transition into having a new sibling). All he knows about breasts are that women have them and they are to make milk for babies to eat - perfectly normal understanding. I get that when you look at a 3yo that they seem like a small child and way too old to nurse but when I look at my child I don't see that. It was a progression - he wasn't just too old one day. Like I said, in this society it is basically taboo to nurse after one (and some people don't even want to see anyone nursing a baby in front of them!) but in many other societies it is completely expected that a child will nurse past age 2. I know lots of other women in my situation so it isn't weird to me at all. And thankfully my husband is completely supportive. But I can guarantee you that nobody outside of my close family and a few very select friends knows that he is still nursing. If you saw us out and about you would never guess - which is why I say that more people than you might expect are nursing toddlers. And I will say that when I had him I never said to myself "I'm going to still be nursing him at 3". I figured I'd wean at a year like everyone else but then I decided I didn't have to wean and just kept going.

Thanks for keeping an open mind <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> If you knew me in person you'd see that we're a normal boring family - who just happens to nurse past infancy, home birth, cloth diaper (never thought I'd do that!), babywear and cosleep. Crunchy? I guess <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
 
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Keepercjr

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Tina

Logan eats just like any 3.5 yo. The nursing mainly for comfort at this point, like when he wakes up and before bed (and it is helping to ease his transition into having a new sibling). All he knows about breasts are that women have them and they are to make milk for babies to eat - perfectly normal understanding. I get that when you look at a 3yo that they seem like a small child and way too old to nurse but when I look at my child I don't see that. It was a progression - he wasn't just too old one day. Like I said, in this society it is basically taboo to nurse after one (and some people don't even want to see anyone nursing a baby in front of them!) but in many other societies it is completely expected that a child will nurse past age 2. I know lots of other women in my situation so it isn't weird to me at all. And thankfully my husband is completely supportive. But I can guarantee you that nobody outside of my close family and a few very select friends knows that he is still nursing. If you saw us out and about you would never guess - which is why I say that more people than you might expect are nursing toddlers. And I will say that when I had him I never said to myself "I'm going to still be nursing him at 3". I figured I'd wean at a year like everyone else but then I decided I didn't have to wean and just kept going.

Thanks for keeping an open mind <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> If you knew me in person you'd see that we're a normal boring family - who just happens to nurse past infancy, home birth, cloth diaper (never thought I'd do that!), babywear and cosleep. Crunchy? I guess <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
 
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Keepercjr

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Tina

Logan eats just like any 3.5 yo. The nursing mainly for comfort at this point, like when he wakes up and before bed (and it is helping to ease his transition into having a new sibling). All he knows about breasts are that women have them and they are to make milk for babies to eat - perfectly normal understanding. I get that when you look at a 3yo that they seem like a small child and way too old to nurse but when I look at my child I don't see that. It was a progression - he wasn't just too old one day. Like I said, in this society it is basically taboo to nurse after one (and some people don't even want to see anyone nursing a baby in front of them!) but in many other societies it is completely expected that a child will nurse past age 2. I know lots of other women in my situation so it isn't weird to me at all. And thankfully my husband is completely supportive. But I can guarantee you that nobody outside of my close family and a few very select friends knows that he is still nursing. If you saw us out and about you would never guess - which is why I say that more people than you might expect are nursing toddlers. And I will say that when I had him I never said to myself "I'm going to still be nursing him at 3". I figured I'd wean at a year like everyone else but then I decided I didn't have to wean and just kept going.

Thanks for keeping an open mind <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> If you knew me in person you'd see that we're a normal boring family - who just happens to nurse past infancy, home birth, cloth diaper (never thought I'd do that!), babywear and cosleep. Crunchy? I guess <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
 
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Keepercjr

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Tina

Logan eats just like any 3.5 yo. The nursing mainly for comfort at this point, like when he wakes up and before bed (and it is helping to ease his transition into having a new sibling). All he knows about breasts are that women have them and they are to make milk for babies to eat - perfectly normal understanding. I get that when you look at a 3yo that they seem like a small child and way too old to nurse but when I look at my child I don't see that. It was a progression - he wasn't just too old one day. Like I said, in this society it is basically taboo to nurse after one (and some people don't even want to see anyone nursing a baby in front of them!) but in many other societies it is completely expected that a child will nurse past age 2. I know lots of other women in my situation so it isn't weird to me at all. And thankfully my husband is completely supportive. But I can guarantee you that nobody outside of my close family and a few very select friends knows that he is still nursing. If you saw us out and about you would never guess - which is why I say that more people than you might expect are nursing toddlers. And I will say that when I had him I never said to myself "I'm going to still be nursing him at 3". I figured I'd wean at a year like everyone else but then I decided I didn't have to wean and just kept going.

Thanks for keeping an open mind <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> If you knew me in person you'd see that we're a normal boring family - who just happens to nurse past infancy, home birth, cloth diaper (never thought I'd do that!), babywear and cosleep. Crunchy? I guess <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
 
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Keepercjr

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Tina
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<br />Logan eats just like any 3.5 yo. The nursing mainly for comfort at this point, like when he wakes up and before bed (and it is helping to ease his transition into having a new sibling). All he knows about breasts are that women have them and they are to make milk for babies to eat - perfectly normal understanding. I get that when you look at a 3yo that they seem like a small child and way too old to nurse but when I look at my child I don't see that. It was a progression - he wasn't just too old one day. Like I said, in this society it is basically taboo to nurse after one (and some people don't even want to see anyone nursing a baby in front of them!) but in many other societies it is completely expected that a child will nurse past age 2. I know lots of other women in my situation so it isn't weird to me at all. And thankfully my husband is completely supportive. But I can guarantee you that nobody outside of my close family and a few very select friends knows that he is still nursing. If you saw us out and about you would never guess - which is why I say that more people than you might expect are nursing toddlers. And I will say that when I had him I never said to myself "I'm going to still be nursing him at 3". I figured I'd wean at a year like everyone else but then I decided I didn't have to wean and just kept going.
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<br />Thanks for keeping an open mind <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> If you knew me in person you'd see that we're a normal boring family - who just happens to nurse past infancy, home birth, cloth diaper (never thought I'd do that!), babywear and cosleep. Crunchy? I guess <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
 
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rubyroselee

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It's so nice to hear different perspectives on how we raise our children. I get crap from my mother all the time for letting our toddler come in bed with us, but it works for us and we enjoy the arragement. He starts off in his own bed and then usually ends up with us at some point in the night.

I just think it's really important to do what works for you and your family because sometimes what is "normal" in society doesn't jive with your life.

Caroline- DW is going back on Sept. 15. I'll be going back to work on Sept. 25. I liked that "crunchy" comment...that's absolutely nothing wrong with being crunchy! I think you're family style sounds wonderful.
 
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rubyroselee

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It's so nice to hear different perspectives on how we raise our children. I get crap from my mother all the time for letting our toddler come in bed with us, but it works for us and we enjoy the arragement. He starts off in his own bed and then usually ends up with us at some point in the night.

I just think it's really important to do what works for you and your family because sometimes what is "normal" in society doesn't jive with your life.

Caroline- DW is going back on Sept. 15. I'll be going back to work on Sept. 25. I liked that "crunchy" comment...that's absolutely nothing wrong with being crunchy! I think you're family style sounds wonderful.
 
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rubyroselee

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It's so nice to hear different perspectives on how we raise our children. I get crap from my mother all the time for letting our toddler come in bed with us, but it works for us and we enjoy the arragement. He starts off in his own bed and then usually ends up with us at some point in the night.

I just think it's really important to do what works for you and your family because sometimes what is "normal" in society doesn't jive with your life.

Caroline- DW is going back on Sept. 15. I'll be going back to work on Sept. 25. I liked that "crunchy" comment...that's absolutely nothing wrong with being crunchy! I think you're family style sounds wonderful.
 
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rubyroselee

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It's so nice to hear different perspectives on how we raise our children. I get crap from my mother all the time for letting our toddler come in bed with us, but it works for us and we enjoy the arragement. He starts off in his own bed and then usually ends up with us at some point in the night.

I just think it's really important to do what works for you and your family because sometimes what is "normal" in society doesn't jive with your life.

Caroline- DW is going back on Sept. 15. I'll be going back to work on Sept. 25. I liked that "crunchy" comment...that's absolutely nothing wrong with being crunchy! I think you're family style sounds wonderful.
 
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rubyroselee

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It's so nice to hear different perspectives on how we raise our children. I get crap from my mother all the time for letting our toddler come in bed with us, but it works for us and we enjoy the arragement. He starts off in his own bed and then usually ends up with us at some point in the night.
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<br />I just think it's really important to do what works for you and your family because sometimes what is "normal" in society doesn't jive with your life.
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<br />Caroline- DW is going back on Sept. 15. I'll be going back to work on Sept. 25. I liked that "crunchy" comment...that's absolutely nothing wrong with being crunchy! I think you're family style sounds wonderful.
 
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