Exclusive breast feeding, though, or just extended?

Extended. Never paused to think about it, because even that seemed weird enough.

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The Dr. Spock books my sister gave me pretty much have the baby on meat by 2 months.

Really? How old is it? Spock recommended vegetarianism in his last editions, but I think did suggest meat, but not until after a child went through the veggies and fruits first, which I think he said to start at four months.

Extended is not entirely abnormal, and I plan on nursing her until she's at least one, but I think almost all kids are on solids by the end of the first year, with most of them hitting that point at about six months.

I don't even think up to a year is considered extended. It's recommended, and if a child can't be/isn't breast fed, formula is recommended for that first 12 months, and milk only thereafter.

And I know someone who is just now weaning - the kid is 2 years plus. It's not going well. Actually, I know her husband, only have met her a couple times. He seems, well, without getting too judgmental about other people's personal lives, I'm going to say that the wife has been using the baby as an excuse to not have to have sex, and the husband's meekly accepted it.

Oh, dear. I think it's harder to wean an older child of anything. At about 18 months, they get stubborn, change averse, and suspicious. Anything you really *want* them to do by the time they're 2-ish, you need to introduce a good chunk of time before they hit 18 months, otherwise, they are convinced it is evil, no good, and also very bad.

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Ow. This move may well kill me after all. I swear, in one swift motion of clumsiness, I think I just broke my toe, wrenched my neck, and gave myself a concussion. All I know is it involved a stray high heel, an open drawer, and the back of a door.

Before it's all over, they'll find me unconcious in a pile of the ugliest clothing you've ever seen. I won't even be awake to tell them it was the Goodwill pile.

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I'm nursing my 22 month old, and it's completely normal to me. We don't do it in public much - she's not interested in doing it in public unless she's really bored or really having a fit. From what I hear, it's hardest to wean a kid between about 15 months and 2. Many kids wean themselves by 2.5-3 (hell, some wean themselves at 13 months), and many will wean themselves if you get pregnant with another child. Apparently the milk stops tasting good.

American Academy of Pediatricians recommends beast milk alone until 6 months - we started solids at 4.5 months, but she wasn't really into them until about 6.

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Oh, I meant to say, Dooce (www.dooce.com) says she was exclusively breastfed until 22 months (and blames it for her chronic constipation, but she has, um, poop issues). My mother started me on solids at 6 weeks, per her doctor's advice. That just seems so weird to me. A six-week old is still wholly in the floppy-head stage, usually.

Also, note: nursing toddlers kill threads.

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I don't even think up to a year is considered extended.

It's not. I'm just not planning ahead beyond that, though I'd like to extended feed until she's ready to self-wean.

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t feels like bad mother

She bit me once and I was so done.

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She bit me once and I was so done.

Yeah, I'd probably be going "teething = weaning" m'self.

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That was before she had any teeth! She still doesn't, but if it hurt that much without.....

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