Vic: Ouch! to the biting! No fun. I always scream "Owww!" and she looks comes off and looks upset, and then we try again and she's usually fine. That's sweet about the giraffes. I've had 1 son and my oldest daughter Yassie has seemed a lot more independant from about age 7 or 8. Ronan is now 10 and he still likes me to do things for him that Yassie could do at an earlier age, and is more cuddly than Yassie (and even Laura now, who is off doing so much in her own little world now). So maybe boys are a bit more attached to their Mums and less independant?

I offer Cara a lot of feeds when maybe I don't need to. Plus I get her to sleep a lot that way since she ditched the dummy. It's just so easy sometimes. But after age 1, when she is on cow's milk, I'll drop it down to maybe 3 feeds a day.....then eventually 2, then 1...and will probably wean around 18mths like I did the other 3.

Did anyone see that show on Extrordinary breastfeeding? One lady feeding an almost 8 year old girl and one lady feeding her 4 year old son and wanted to try and feed her adopted 18mth old chinese baby girl! I couldn't do it that long....after awhile I just want my body back!