Many mothers wean their babies around four months anyway and in the Third World it?s often an economic necessity.
Yes in the third world where women cannot afford formula milk so water it down. Not to mention don't have access to clean water to make it up with Oh yes it is absolutely wonderufl that women in developing countries wean at 4 months.(see Miriam? Developing countries not Third World, that name is outdated and insulting).
Plus breast milk often doesn?t deliver the iron needed for a six-month baby.
Oh do your research you moron.
This mother belongs to the school of extreme parenting where mums breast-feed into late childhood, let their child sleep with them and, as babies, carry them everywhere in a sling
Exreme parenting? Extreme? Who cares where the baby sleeps of how it is carried? I carry my baby in a sling all the time, it leaves my hands free to hold hands with the big 2 when we cross roads. You know, so they don't get flattened. Highly irresponsible I am.
No young child should be asked to shoulder the burden of such a decision.
If you subscribe to that, which other decisions would you let your child make? To go to nursery or not? To get up in the morning or stay in bed? It?s clearly wrong.
I'm sorry I just PMSL at that one (yes probably literally, 3 vaginal births'll do that to you). Do you not think there is a difference between a child deciding when to stop having milk, a food, source of comfort, way of reconnecting with mummy at the end of a day at nursery and a non negotiable decision like nursery while mummy is at work etc? Anyway most parents DO allow their child some element of choice, they choose a childcare setting their child is happy with, they allow their child to choose clothes and personally apart from mornings when we have to be somewhere I allow my children to get up when they are ready and have slept enough (usually way too early for my liking!).
No. This is about mothers who desire to keep their child dependent on them.
Yeah I just love getting up at night and not being able to go out of an evening. Love it. Can't get enough of staying at home while dh and friends go out.
A parent should be encouraging a child to be independent.
Responding to their needs means they grow up secure that their needs will be met. It fosters independence.
Far from it being upsetting, most babies offered a mixed diet are happy about it.
Well yeah,nobody said it was mean and evil to mix feed. People who breastfeed don't tend to be like that. It is just you morons who do us the same favour and live and let live. anyway just because a child is happy without being breastfed it doesn't follow that the breastfed child it unhappy. Which, lets face it, is pretty much what oyu are trying to imply.
My guide is the appearance of teeth.
Nature arranges for them to erupt when a baby needs food that has to be chewed
You do know a child can be born with teeth right? Does that mean a baby born with teeth should never be breastfed and should be offered solids from birth?
