Extended Breastfeeding

I know at least 2 Lutheran moms who would be encouraged by this article in the Boston Globe. I know I was. I’m a bit of a lactivist (have I mentioned that before?) and so I get excited when I read a non-inflaming article in support of breastfeeding. Especially one that mentions that the American Academy of Pediatrics’s guidelines for nursing are that you do so exclusively for 6 months, and continuing until 12 months or as long as mutually desirable by mother and child, and the World Health Organization recommends that moms nurse until at least 2 years.

Liv and I nursed until she was about 17 months. I don’t know how long Elise and I will go, but nursing longer is better.