What will breastfeeding have, which causes so much controversy. Even some people who accept that breastfeeding is the best they are shocked when it is pointed out that the boy or girl continues to breastfeed beyond two years of age.
That is the minimum age recommended by WHO, but even before breastfeeding is considered “prolonged” by most people.
I, who continue to breastfeed my two-year-old daughter, and if only in the morning, at home (which means that I do not expose myself to curious-surprised-shocked looks) I've been listening for months, when the subject comes up, with Surprised face "But is it still sucking?"
Phrases with a more or less humorous-derogatory tone such as "Will it be weaned when you go to the military"? They demonstrate the ignorance of many people who are unaware of the advantages of the breast beyond two years and the recommendations of health organizations.
We have already seen that breast milk, beyond two years, continues to offer immunological and cognitive benefits the child, is still perfectly adequate from the nutritional point of view and protects against obesity, for example.
In fact, the term "prolonged" that intercomillo can sometimes offer the connotation of "unnecessary", "excessive", but the truth is that if there were no pressure in our environment to wean before the child leaves the child by himself chest, we would simply talk about breastfeeding.
Precisely Mireia these weeks has been talking about prolonged breastfeeding and gives us some advice on how to defend it, since mothers who breastfeed beyond two years often (not always) face the misunderstanding of their environment, when No to disrespect.
But no one should question or attack a mother for breastfeeding the time she decides, let alone if she does so from ignorance or attack, and for this we have all the arguments in favor of breastfeeding.
We hope that, with time, a practice as natural as breastfeeding a boy or girl stop becoming a cause for controversy or unproductive confrontations and often the result of ignorance.
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