I'm just curious about others ~ I practice childled weaning. My 2nd weaned himself at 12 mos & my 3rd eventually weaned after age 2. I will be doing the same thing with this baby too.

"While 70.9 percent of mothers in US hospitals initiated breastfeeding in 2003, only 36.2 percent were still partially breastfeeding at six months of age and only 14.2 percent were exclusively breastfeeding at this age. The American Academy of Pediatrics states that exclusive breastfeeding is the ideal nutrition for the first 6 months and should continue for at least twelve months and thereafter for as long as mutually desired."































I think my daughter was still breastfeeding just at night to go to sleep when she was three. With my encouragement, she stopped when she had her 4th birthday. (sort of a "big girl" thing, I think I spun it as. If truly "child-led" it would have gone on even longer, I think.) I think if the mother is feeling fed up with it, that is a reason to encourage weaning or limiting breast feeding -- at least after the first 12 months or so.































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i breastfed until 9 months.

I breastfed all three of my children the first for three months, I stoped due to pressure from my family. My second shild self weaned at a year and my third weaned at 2 1/2.































The World Health Orgization recomends that babies be exclusively breast fed for 6 months and continue to breastfeed until they're 2 or beyond.































I have noticed the health differences between early weaning and delayed weaning, my 3rd child has never been on antibiotics and he is 3 where as my oldest had constant ear infections and upper respitory infections.































Ohh and one more thing whenever you nurse your baby prolactin is released, a hormone that causes relaxation, reducing stress and perhaps postpartum depression.

I nursed my son for a year and then was down to night time and nap time. I stopped doing that when he was 1 1/2 (and I was several months pregnant.) My daughter is currently down to 2 or 3 breastfeedings a day and she just turned 1.

The average age world wide for children being breastfeed to is 4 years old. And that's just the average!

I breastfed all three of my girls until a year and a half. although I am currently still breastfeeding my eighteen month old. I am the exception not the norm in my area and I often get asked the gasping question 'you're STILL breastfeeding?'. I have continued to breastfeed this long because I think it's important to my childrens health and wellbeing.