Breastfeeding Past Infancy Resources

Vanessa tandem nursing her almost 3-year-old daughter and 9-month-old son

Educate yourself! Breastfeeding past infancy is normal, natural, and healthy. Below are resources, please email me if you know of one I missed.¹

Breastfeeding Past Infancy: Normal, Natural, Healthy

• 46 medical research studies from the regarding US National Library of Medicine the health benefits of breastmilk
• Breastfeeding Beyond Infancy: links and resources from Natural Parents Network
• Breastfeeding Beyond Infancy: Radio Documentary, at NursingFreedom.org
• Breastfeeding Past Infancy: Fact Sheet, at Kellymom
• Breastfeeding: The Numbers, at Kellymom
• A Breastfeeding Rant at I Am Not the Babysitter
• Code Name: Mama’s “The Joys of Nursing Past Infancy” series
• Exploring and Influencing the Knowledge and Attitudes of Health Professionals Towards Extended Breastfeeding
• Extend Breastfeeding’s Benefits – notes to a Mothering article with links and references to articles
• Nursing Past a Year, at The Compleat Mother
• Putting a Face on Extended Breastfeeding

, at Code Name: Mama

Gently Weaning After Infancy

• A Natural Age of Weaning, by Katherine Dettwyler
• Natural Weaning, by Norma Jane Bumgarner
• A Time to Wean, by Katherine Dettwyler

Responses I love to Time Magazine’s stories and cover photo shoot:

I created this page in response to the brouhaha which came in the wake of Time Magazine’s cover photo and story, “Are You Mom Enough?” I took part in the cover photo shoot for Time (picture #3 with my two nurslings). I was proud to be photographed tandem nursing my four year old, because I am passionate about normalizing breastfeeding past infancy. I do think that we² managed to educate at least some people about how normal and healthy breastfeeding past infancy is for both mothers and children. Here are some of my favorite posts about the issue.

• Breastfeeding. A Private and Sacred Act?, at Dulce de Leche
• Derision and Scorn: How Time Dropped the Ball on Attachment Parenting, at KellyNaturally.com
• Extended Does Not Equal Extreme, an article I wrote for Huffington Post
• From Breasts to Boobs and Back Again, at Jason Good 365
• Mayim Balik’s interview on CNN about breastfeeding her three year old
• An Open Letter to Time Magazine
• Out of the Mouths of Babes, at Scientific American
• The Sexuality of Breasts: Keeping Women in Their Place, at Living Peacefully with Children
• We’re All Mom Enough, by Hobo Mama at BlogHer
• Yes, She’s 4, and Yes, She’s Still Breastfeeding, at Normal, Like Breathing
• Hobo Mama also compiled lots of links in her Sunday Surf on the topic.