Cristina,
I appreciate your question. I have not posted to this list before ( but follow
it with interest and gratitude) and your query has brought me out of hiding. :)
I breastfed my now seven and a half year old daughter for over six years.She
slept me with me for most of the first four years and whenever she wanted or
needed to since then. She did not go to or stay asleep without nursing. It was
very tiring at times. I made my bed bigger - pushed two beds together and that
helped a lot. Also I had support through La Leche League which I consider the
ultimate authority on breastfeeding- mothers giving mothers advice and support
for 60 years. I am not sure where you live but in the western world
breastfeeding beyond a year is still very unusual. Most of us don't have models
in our families for co-sleeping and breastfeeding into toddlerhood and
childhood. And often we don't have support for these choices when we complain
about the inevitable fatigue and doubt that comes along with the territory.
My daughter did not cry much at night - likely because she was always nursing.
She nursed at least 10 times a day as well at that age. She was and is a 'high
intensity' child.
I see this as an attachment issue. Creating secure attachment for a child is a
challenge and different with each child. Some kids need more- more everything!
Whether the early experience of this baby is related to the need to be
comforted now, I don't know. I found trusting my baby and myself led to
decisions that were good for all the family. My daughter is so self assured now
it is hard to believe that she clung to my like a marsupial for those first
years!
Bill and Martha Sears ,an American husband-pediatrician and wife-midwife who
have eight kids, have written some very practical books and include 'Attachment
Parenting' in their writings. It certainly helped me to normalize my experience
as a mother.
I wish your client well. She is doing something really important.
Karen
"krsna-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <krsna-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Friends
I would appreciate some advice. I have a client who is breastfeeding an 18
months old baby. This baby had a virus when he was two weeks old and was send
to the hospital for three or four days. The mother was also in the hospital.
He had a spinal tap there and several times a day they took blood. At nigjht,
this baby cries a lot and cannot sleep unless is with mother in the bed and
breastfeeding.
Any advice?
Thanks, Cristina
krsna-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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