Comments on: Salma Hayek “still” breastfeeding – world can’t decide whether to jerk off or prosecute

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:05:55 +0000

The WHO recommends two years. They’re not just pulling numbers out of thin air. It’s frustrating to see people react against breast-feeding past a year (the CDC recommendation) without bothering to find out facts.

And for the crowd who think that if the baby no longer depends on his/her mother’s milk for survival, they should be cut off? One of the women in my church continued breast-feeding on demand. Her two year old could climb up in her lap and ask for the breast. Do you know what that little one learned? He learned that if he needed comfort, he could ask and he would be comforted. I think that’s a better lesson than learning that asking means you get cut off.

By: Steph

Steph — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:01:25 +0000

I think it’s sickening that someone would suggest that anyone who breastfeeds after a year, is bein sexually abusive to the baby. What would those people have to say to wet nurses? Lactating women who donate thier milk and even sometimes thier breast to a child who’s mother is unable to breastfeed. I guess those people are sick and demented too. I am a mother of two and i’m a statistic, a mother who simply didn’t produce anywhere near enough milk to feed wither of my kids…If i had the chance to breastfeed i would have done it for at the very least a year for many reasons, there are so many possitives as far as health for mother and child including lowers the chance of breast cancer for both, and thats only one health reason. There also convenience, not having to run around trying to warm a bottle in public, not having to mix formula, not having to try to find which formula works best for ur baby, the cost of formula. I look at how much i spend each month on formula for my son and i am shocked. I think every woman has the right to do what selma is doing and shouldn’t be critisized for it, in other countries it’s just normal for babies to nurse beyond a year. There is of course a line where realisticly a baby should not be nursing but 13 months is definately not it…The only demented people i’ve read on here so far are the ones critisizing and calling her sick for doing so

By: Ani

Ani — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:06:05 +0000

can i just say w/o causing controversy that if i had Salma’s glorious glands i too would breastfeed for as long as possible?!!! As it is, me and my 2 1/2 yo will plod along “making do” with my mom-of-three-breastfed-babies-boobies and enjoy every minute of it although apparently i will need to start saving now for some serious therapy later in life….sigh…
i must live in such a bubble that i didn’t realize that the reports about SH breastfeeding were negative and derogatory until i read this post and i was so sad because i just thought it was the most beautiful thing that she was able to nurture that precious little guy as well as her own baby. And the real problem seems to be that her baby is 13!Months!Old!
How ridiculous…i mean really – aren’t there real issues in the world (like the baby she was feeding, his mother was too ill to make milk for him most likely because of a contaminated water supply) that could be debated… what a place.

By: Crystal

Crystal — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:39:19 +0000

Thanks for this blog. It’s wonderful and it’s exactly how I feel about the whole issue. I need to introduce my husband to it because I know he’s going to be difficult about breastfeeding past a year when we have children and you are so much more eloquent than I. Thanks again. Love the comments too.

By: Lauredhel

Lauredhel — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:54:23 +0000

Liz: The World Health Organisation recommendations are that it should continue to two years and beyond, as I say in the post. There’s no reason the AAP guidelines – an organisation sponsored by a number of infant formula companies – should take precedence over that.

By: Liz

Liz — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 22:54:48 +0000

P.S. Best blog post title ever.

By: Liz

Liz — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:39:47 +0000

Of course the guideline isn’t that it should stop at around a year. It’s that it should continue for *at least* a year!

8-)

By: Lauredhel

Lauredhel — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:03:41 +0000

Eli: yes, a year and a month is “around” a year, yes. But the larger point is that there is absolutely no reason breastfeeding should stop there, it should be none of anyone else’s business when it doesn’t, there are physiological reasons why breastfeeding for much longer is appropriate, and this particular issue shouldn’t serve as a touchstone for every misogynist piece of shit out there to put their two cents in.

By: Eli

Eli — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:21:46 +0000

I love that people suggest that breast feeding should stop at “around” a year old. Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t a year and one month “around” a year?

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