Bath - very interesing...how are you supposed to go back to study, run a household AND make Verity's lunch before school?? Isn't that just asking you to be a martyr??? My grr is with you!
Neeny - "NO nutritional value in breastmilk" after 18 months...untrue! It may not be crucial to kids' development, but don't try to tell anyone straightfaced that breastmilk is just lolly water after a certain age because it is patently untrue! It's one thing to be sensitive around people who, for whatever reason, don't breastfeed, it is quite another to call extended breastfeeding 'totally gross'. I don't care that BFing doesn't mean much to you, but it is an important part of my parenting. I feel very liberated since my breasts became 'de-sexualised'! I am not a barnyard cow, my extended breastfeeding friends are not barnyard cows, thanks very much. We do not feel that way and we don't actually care if we offend you because the only explanation we owe is to ourselves and our children. I invite you to explore how you come to the conclusion, within yourself, that extended BFing is gross -what's gross about it? Why? How does it make you feel? Sure, you're entitled to your opinion, but on this forum, in this thread, was that comment really necessary?
Ali - the APers on the show never made a judgement call on non-APers, in case that's what you thought had happened on the show - it was the other way around!
Just so happens that the parenting style I am instinctually driven to is pretty much attachment parenting, sans the EC. Attachment theory is not Attachment Parenting, but they are related - it's not like a religion or anything
Gotta take Oscar outside for an al fresco feed...