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neithcece@yahoo.com - 06 Sep 2008 01:23 GMT

When my son was a baby I nursed exclusively for almost 8 months. I did
not give him anything besides my own milk. He did not even want to try
baby food until then. He grew up strong and healthy. That was my
experience. I recommend a long time breastfeeding for both mother and
baby. I found that my son rarely was sick the whole time he breastfed,
and we are close to this day (he is now an adult).

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Kat - 06 Sep 2008 03:41 GMT

> When my son was a baby I nursed exclusively for almost 8 months. I did
> not give him anything besides my own milk. He did not even want to try
> baby food until then. He grew up strong and healthy. That was my
> experience. I recommend a long time breastfeeding for both mother and
> baby. I found that my son rarely was sick the whole time he breastfed,
> and we are close to this day (he is now an adult).

Meh. I've spent around 5 years of my life nursing. It averages about 16
months per child, with DD1 being the shortest to nurse - only about 8
months - and DD2 the longest, at a day before she was 22 months (she just
weaned very, very recently)
DD2 sounds like your son - I believe it was around June/July that she first
wanted any type of "food" - which was the infant cereals/pablum... She was
born in October, so was around 8-9 months before she was even willing and
able to try anything other than breast milk. She is also, by far, the
clingiest of all even at 22 months. She was born almost attached to my
breast, grew attached to my breast, hip, back, stomach, leg and still is to
this day. I don't know if I'd consider her "close" at this age, but she's
for sure clingy!

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NL - 06 Sep 2008 13:14 GMT

Kat schrieb:

>> When my son was a baby I nursed exclusively for almost 8 months. I did
>> not give him anything besides my own milk. He did not even want to try
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> this day. I don't know if I'd consider her "close" at this age, but she's
> for sure clingy!

Velcro baby... Sara's like that. She just turned a year old. She still
nurses to sleep and nurses during the night (I don't know how often, we
co-sleep and I don't really wake up all the way when she wants to nurse)
and spends most of the day on my lap.
Sam wasn't like her at all! He was off on his own at this age, he was
walking well and exploring and didn't want to be held except to nurse
(of course that did have a lot to do with his perception problems). But
yeah, Sara's velcro baby, not happy when she's not on my lap except if
she's being actively entertained by someone else OR if she's doing
something exciting she's not technically allowed to do, like emptying
the contents of the diaper bad onto the floor and rummaging around in
them...

cu
nicole

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Kat - 07 Sep 2008 00:19 GMT

> Kat schrieb:
>>> When my son was a baby I nursed exclusively for almost 8 months. I did
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> cu
> nicole

Haha Velcro baby is a great term to use!
It's funny... I've found that there aren't as many of the clingers out
there. Many are just fine to be off on their own and doing their own thing.
Then you get the odd one that this wouldn't happen in *this* life time!
Poor DD2 is like that. I really can't even walk out of the room without her
being far less than impressed with me, and life in general.
The others didn't seem to care if I was here or there. They didn't care if
I was around or not, really. They were all fine being left with someone
else and just fine amusing themselves. I remember DS would be amused for
fairly long periods of time with paper on a fan ;) And we also found that
DD1 is still, to this day, quite amused by ribbons with or without balloons
tied to the heat register blowing away. DD2 would only be amused with
either of those activities if I was right there lol
DD1 is the one that gets into things. Many times she's gotten into
something like diaper cream or sun screen... No matter where I put it up and
away or hide it. We have pictures lol
The clingers are definitely like velcro. Luckily I have only one that can't
seem to leave my side!

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