“Extended” breastfeeding?

I find myself more and more disheartened by society’s ever-increasing insistence that we need to make our children independent from the word go, coupled with the idea that this independence is somehow hastened by absenting ourselves from them.

Ideas about the future of this blog – your input required, please!

Just having a ponder about the future of this blog and thought I’d ask you what you’ve found most useful so far.  No point me putting together some grand things if nobody thinks they’re any good and never reads them! I know from the stats on the blog that lots of people find their way here [...]

How health professionals view breastfeeding – positive stories, please

I thought it would be interesting to have a list of all the positive things you’d heard from health professionals about breastfeeding.  Hopefully, one day, the positive will outweigh the negative <dreams> I’ll start – there’s a nurse at my GP practice who is very impressed I was still breastfeeding my youngest son when he [...]