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Breastfeeding is a globally recognized imperative for the preservation of infant health, and governments around the world have introduced breastfeeding promotion measures. While initiation rates have improved, duration rates at a few weeks or months after birth still lag behind the World Health Organization's recommendation that breastfeeding - for all children, in both developed and developing worlds - should continue for at least two years. Behind the figures, there is however an inverse reality. Today, increasing numbers of women in the industrialized world challenge social convention and breastfeed their children well beyond WHO guidelines. How widespread is this surprising, many would say shocking, phenomenon? Is it Nature's way or an unhealthy practice? Do mothers prolong breastfeeding for their own pleasure? Is it, as some say, a form of sexual abuse? Do overly controlling women coerce children into continuing because they wish their children to remain dependent, or are they meeting an innate child need? Does long-term breastfeeding impact negatively on child physical and emotional health, or does it have a positive effect? Do mothers pay a price? How does the practice affect the family, and the couple relationship? Are breasts intended for infant feeding or for sexual pleasure? How and when did early weaning become established practice in the western world? Is sustained breastfeeding a reversion to a pre-feminist state, or is it a truly feminist issue? Drawing on child development theories and neuroscience research, archaeological findings and anthropological opinion, this book, explores the myths and reality surrounding this taboo practice to answer these and many other questions. In extracts from questionnaires, we also hear directly from mothers, fathers and the children themselves. Thought-provoking and challenging, this well-researched but thoroughly accessible book will appeal to all concerned with infant feeding and child health, as well as those with an interest in prehistory and the origins of western culture.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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Breastfeeding older children - a wonderful feelgood book about breastfeeding, it puts into words all the feelings and thoughts that goes with feeding offspring. It's really factual and there are loads of people who were surveyed who had their own comments to make, some good and some for breastfeeding older children, the book looks at breastfeeding from all sides and it does not give you the guide on how to breastfeed your children, it gives facts and many comments about everything and anything to do with breastfeeding. If you were breastfed and are breastfeeding your child this book is definately for you!!!!
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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As a mother to a now 2 year old boy I never saw myself as "one of those women" who breast feeds when the child can "walk and talk" but I found the opinions of the majority quite upsetting, to suggest that breastfeeding is un-natural and "gross" when your child is 6wks old makes you wonder what a backward society we live in.
Breastfeeding Older Children - Ann Sinnott was suggested to me by my Lactivist online friends and I needed that back-up, that justification in book form to show my husband, my mother in law or just about anyone who was ready to suggest what me and my son are doing is "wrong" - she has captured perfectly the beauty and the bond of the breastfeeding relationship both from a personal and an anecdotal point of view and this book also includes a chapter on the ORIGINS of breastfeeding dating back to ICE AGE times which I found particularly interesting and you would hear me citing these paragraphs to my husband in absolute awe (whilst he sat and growned of course!) but alas, even my other half concedes after hearing me talk through many relative paragraphs on the prospect of "breastfeeding an older child" can see the value in allowing our little one to self-wean, he connected the information against the example that is our little boy and accepted that this is one part of our parenting that we would never allow society to dictate and this is all thanks to Ann Sinnott for targeting this issue and making sense of it scientifically as well as from a peer perspective, I am utterly grateful for these words and recommend that any mother breastfeeding an older baby/child before even considering listening to nonsense from health "professionals" or family/friends that they buy this book and take it all in, and THEN (only then) make an informed decision, and I promise after reading this book that it will be the right one, the right decision to continue breastfeeding your child whatever the age until they are naturally ready to stop of their own accord.
Breastfeeding Older Children - Ann Sinnott was suggested to me by my Lactivist online friends and I needed that back-up, that justification in book form to show my husband, my mother in law or just about anyone who was ready to suggest what me and my son are doing is "wrong" - she has captured perfectly the beauty and the bond of the breastfeeding relationship both from a personal and an anecdotal point of view and this book also includes a chapter on the ORIGINS of breastfeeding dating back to ICE AGE times which I found particularly interesting and you would hear me citing these paragraphs to my husband in absolute awe (whilst he sat and growned of course!) but alas, even my other half concedes after hearing me talk through many relative paragraphs on the prospect of "breastfeeding an older child" can see the value in allowing our little one to self-wean, he connected the information against the example that is our little boy and accepted that this is one part of our parenting that we would never allow society to dictate and this is all thanks to Ann Sinnott for targeting this issue and making sense of it scientifically as well as from a peer perspective, I am utterly grateful for these words and recommend that any mother breastfeeding an older baby/child before even considering listening to nonsense from health "professionals" or family/friends that they buy this book and take it all in, and THEN (only then) make an informed decision, and I promise after reading this book that it will be the right one, the right decision to continue breastfeeding your child whatever the age until they are naturally ready to stop of their own accord.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
a must have for breastfeeding mothers, indeed for everyone - change attitudes for the benefit of society as a whole
1 April 2010
Format:Paperback
Love this book. I feel validated in my instincts and encouraged to continue to put me and my boy first regardless of society's current attitudes towards 'extended' breastfeeding. Thank you Ann Sinnott and my friend Sarah for recommending it to me.
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A must for mothers who really want to know...
Ann Sinnott has not been afraid to ask those difficult questions and to answer them, regarding 'extended' breastfeeding. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Mrs. Tjh Hill
A much needed book
Ann Sinnot explores the re-emergence of breastfeeding older children in western society. She draws on child development theories, neuroscience research and anthroplogical findings,... Read more
Published 12 months ago by MamaD8
A new perspective, even for proponents
I currently nurse a 2 years old with no plans to stop. I have no doubts about the rightness of this choice and I've already had dozens of arguments before reading this book. Read more
Published 16 months ago by lino
Fantastic support!
I nearly gave up on breastfeeding and started battling and weaning my baby at 5 months (as told by 'so-called experts') I felt really alone, and I seemed to be the only mum left... Read more
Published 18 months ago by S.J
Comprehensive, factual and thought provoking
This book has filled in many gaps in the breastfeeding literature I have read. There has to date been very little research done into breastfeeding children beyond age 2 and this... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Amanda King
The Book to Buy if Your Breastfeeding
I hesitated about buying this book. It isn't the cheapest book available and I wondered what it could tell me as there is very little research into breastfeeding over a year. Read more
Published 21 months ago by GlenofNature
Delighted I bought it
This is an excellent book. The author has gathered the views of breastfeeding mothers, fathers and children who have been or are planning to breastfeed beyond 2.5 years. Read more
Published 23 months ago by C. Harris
A Very Welcome and Important Addition to the Parenting Bookshelf
As the mother of a daughter who was breastfed until the age of four, I welcome this book, which I feel fills a huge gap in the market of standard breastfeeding publications. Read more
Published on 22 April 2010 by Jan Andersen
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