Breastfeeding Concern

**sallywi2003** · 08-22-2010 07:55 PM

As I have been reading up and thinking about kids I plan to breast feed my childeren to at least age 3 it is so good for there immune status. I have also talked with my Mom and she said she breast feed me until I was 3 also. It is all normal.

**Dragon** · 10-14-2010 07:36 AM

I breastfed for 6 months, I never saw difference in my daughter after weaning. Breastfeeding is overstated and its benefits blown out of proportion.

**WildChild** · 10-14-2010 07:40 AM

Originally Posted by Dragon

I breastfed for 6 months, I never saw difference in my daughter after weaning. Breastfeeding is overstated and its benefits blown out of proportion.

Haven't done much research have you?

**ItsASecret** · 10-14-2010 08:06 AM

Everyone is different, including everyone's babies. I saw a program on tv once that followed a mom around that breastfed her boy until he was about 8 because she felt it was the only way to insure he leads a healthy life. I personally think that sort of situation is blowing it out of proportion. In the same program there was a woman who stopped after like 9 months. Both were healthy kids. Not breastfeeding does not mean your kid is automatically going to develop brain dysfunction or growth abnormalities or a sure-fire compromised immune system. It is just a bonding act that appears to show some physiological benefits. Doctors will always advise a mom to go through with breast feeding and recommend that it go until roughly 2 years of age but that is totally up to the mother.