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Infant feeding

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is she mad?!

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Titania · 19/10/2004 16:46

I was talking to a girl today who has breast fed her son for 22 months and she said that he was waking up 3 times a night for a comfort feed.....and she wanted to give it up. So she painted that stuff on her boobs that you put on kids nails to stop them biting them.......he stopped feeding after 2 days. I think its a bit mad really. What do you lot think?

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Spod · 19/10/2004 16:47

WHAT
??????? YES, MAD!!!!!!!!!!!!! poisonous?

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Titania · 19/10/2004 16:48

thats what i thought.......

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clairabelle · 19/10/2004 16:48

I'm sure it's not poisonous but she does sound barking.

fuzzywuzzy · 19/10/2004 16:50

well if it worked... Mind you I'm amazed she managed to continue b/f once he started teething, ouch!!!

Chandra · 19/10/2004 16:51

Comfort feeding an almost two year old, 3 times a night must have render her totally desasperate more so if breastfeeding. The question is not how did she stoped it but how did she managed to do it up to this point.

PS. Don't think the nail stuff is dangerous but certainly not nice on her skin.

bundle · 19/10/2004 16:53

pharmacist refused to sell the anti-nail-biting stuff to me for dd1 (then 3 yrs old) to stop her biting nails, so i can't imagine it's good for a 22 mth old.
btw, breastfeeding a child through teething is not hell, i've only been bitten once by dd2, and twice by dd1 (fed dd1 till 22 mths, still feeding dd2 at 18 mths)

Pidge · 19/10/2004 16:53

Mad IMO. There are rather less crazed ways of stopping if you've had enough!

Though feeding after teething is no problem fuzzywuzzy - my dd got teeth at 5 months and I continued to feed her till she was 2.

Twiglett · 19/10/2004 16:55

mad and IMHO a 2 year old needs a full night's sleep .. she should've sleep-trained a lot earlier .. that's just fear / laziness keeping on night-feeds at that age

Spod · 19/10/2004 16:56

ditto on feeding with teeth... no probs here

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Titania · 19/10/2004 17:21

i thought it was mad...i just said 'oh ive never heard of that before'

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WigWamBam · 19/10/2004 17:24

I breast fed for over two years and the teeth thing isn't a problem, fuzzy! I certainly wouldn't have been giving comfort feeds at night time at that age, though. I think that keeping up the night feeds was probably habit, both on his part and hers. I'm amazed that she'd put nail-biting stuff on her boobs, it can't be good for either her or the child!

Clayhead · 19/10/2004 17:26

Interesting solution, not one I've heard of before!

I feed 13 month old ds with 12 teeth, it's no problem at all. Both of mine got their first teeth at around 3 months anyway so I'm used to it. In fact, I can't feel them at all, is that normal?

Riebee · 19/10/2004 17:53

sounds like she is completely barking even to think of the idea in the first place!
I b/fed my youngest ds until he was nearly 15mths, not intentionally I might say it just seemed to drag on a bit! He is definately going to be a boob man when he's older. I had to give him a dummy in the end to stop him...slightly kinder than stop n grow me thinks!

hercules · 19/10/2004 17:58

Using a bitter tasting cream is a traditional method where my ds comes from.

Personally I dont think she's mad at all.

WigWamBam · 19/10/2004 18:20

I wouldn't want to be feeding my baby the kind of chemicals that come in Stop 'n Grow though, Hercules!

hercules · 19/10/2004 18:41

But she was hardly pouring it into his mouth was she? He would only have got the taste of it.

WigWamBam · 19/10/2004 18:49

I think even that would have been too much for me, Hercules. Each to his own and all that, but I wouldn't have done it. It can't have done her nipples much good, either!

NotQuiteCockney · 19/10/2004 19:29

I've heard of people using mustard, which sounds less alarming, somehow. At least it's food.

And include me in the "teeth don't make a difference" camp. I fed ds1 until he was 18 months. He bit me once, bad enough to draw blood, around 1 year. I think I howled, and swore that was the end. He never did it again.

aloha · 19/10/2004 19:45

I wouldn't have done it myself but it seems harmless enough. I would have knocked the night feeds on the head a lot earlier though. She must have been shattered.

hunkermunker · 19/10/2004 20:24

No wonder he stopped though! My mum painted that on my fingers when I was asleep to stop me sucking my fingers (I was about eight - she must've been desperate to stop me sucking them!). In the middle of the night, I put my fingers in my mouth... Not a nice experience!

One of my relatives used lemon juice to stop her son breastfeeding - I think that'd be what I did if I did anything.

MarmaladeSun · 19/10/2004 22:22

I used it once on my DS to stop him biting his nails. Poor little lad was so very sick in the night after putting his fingers in his mouth I threw it away and never used it again. Each to their own and all that, but I'd be inclined to wean the baby gradually off the breast...going cold turkey seems a bit cruel to me

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