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Old 01-02-2009, 02:28 PM
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That sad, but not as sad as the lady who breastfeeds her (i think) 9 year old daughter. I remember we had an article on GC about her. I gotta find it.
Please tell me you're kidding...
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Old 01-02-2009, 02:42 PM
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Please tell me you're kidding...
So at the time, the child was around 7/8. I wonder if she's still breastfeeding.

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Old 01-02-2009, 03:35 PM
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Is it so hard to put a burp cloth over your shoulder when you're nursing???
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Old 01-02-2009, 04:21 PM
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I knew someone that did have cancer while 7 months pregnant. Once the baby was born, she refused to stop breastfeeding until her son was 6 months old. Her radiation just had to wait. What happens? Cancer spread. Luckily, she did go into remission but things would not have been so bad had she not breastfed so much and gotten her treatment. I still roll my eyes when she talks like she's the expert about cancer and babies.

Okay, I think that's a little nuts - but then I lost an aunt to breast cancer when she was 32 so maybe I was a little more scared than your friend. My oncologist and I agreed to do the first 6 weeks because that is the most important time in terms of the baby's immune system. AND I didn't even have a confirmed case of cancer - just some big ol' red flags. I'm glad it worked out for your friend, but IMHO IT IS MORE IMPORTANT TO HAVE A LIVING MOTHER THAN TO BREASTFEED for a specific amount of time.

We are so blessed to live in a time where mothers have choices and resources. The most important thing is what is best for the mother and the baby, and that means different things to different parents and children.
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Old 01-02-2009, 04:29 PM
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BTW, looks like they created a site for themselves:

http://www.tera.ca/photos6.html
I am traumatized.

They are being too flashy (no pun intended) with this whole ordeal. Militancy for the sake of militancy breeds contempt. Women's breasts are not obscene just as men's chests and breasts aren't obscene. But there's a time and place for everything. And I think some of those photos look gross. Posting photos of children breast feeding is volunteering info to the WORLD for the sake of volunteering it. Whatever happened to protecting your children? Plus there are a few children on there who are old enough to be eating solid food. When you're old enough to POSE for the camera, you don't need to be posing with a nipple in your mouth. Yikes.
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Old 01-02-2009, 04:35 PM
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Oh my! The photo of the black couple and what looks like placenta and stuff! Oooook...I feel like I'm rubbernecking at the scene of a bad accident. Bad to look at but still looking.
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Old 01-02-2009, 04:43 PM
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Slightly off-topic (maybe)

I've never understood the whole "photograph everything associated with the birth" thing. Heck, as far as I'm concerned, my children came out clean and wrapped in a blanket. My ob/gyn (or family practitioner for #2) would ask "Do you want to watch?" and I would reply - "No! I'm busy!". When the ob/gyn asked my husband if he wanted to cut the cord, I piped up with "What, we're not paying you enough?". My focus was on having a healthy baby - and while I cherish the pictures of my minutes-old children, I'm also glad there aren't any of me at what was no doubt an amazing achievement for me - but one I chose to have reflected in pictures of the results. I would have HATED to think I was being videoed or photographed when in labour - and I was pretty low-key (no swearing or yelling). I have only one photo of me nursing, and it wasn't meant to be of me nursing - someone was trying to take a picture of Gypsyboots hugging her sister, and it just so happened she did it while sister was nursing. If you didn't know I was nursing her, you wouldn't know I was nursing her. That picture got to stay, but that's it.

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Old 01-02-2009, 05:15 PM
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I knew someone that did have cancer while 7 months pregnant. Once the baby was born, she refused to stop breastfeeding until her son was 6 months old. Her radiation just had to wait. What happens? Cancer spread. Luckily, she did go into remission but things would not have been so bad had she not breastfed so much and gotten her treatment. I still roll my eyes when she talks like she's the expert about cancer and babies.
That woman is no expert on anything other than how to almost kill yourself.
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Old 01-02-2009, 08:56 PM
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Is it so hard to put a burp cloth over your shoulder when you're nursing???
I KNOW! A few years ago, there was this big hubbub about how women shouldn't have to cover up. My mother and I both thought that was ridiculous. Sure its a natural process, but I don't want to see it.

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... IMHO IT IS MORE IMPORTANT TO HAVE A LIVING MOTHER THAN TO BREASTFEED for a specific amount of time.
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The most important thing is what is best for the mother and the baby, and that means different things to different parents and children.
Thank you! I also had an aunt die from cancer (breast cancer that metastized to her brain). How would the child feel if the mother died because she wanted to breast feed the baby?

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Heck, as far as I'm concerned, my children came out clean and wrapped in a blanket.
This made my day.
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Old 01-02-2009, 10:56 PM
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FYI: 20/20 tonight is about "extreme motherhood" and one of the segments is about a woman who still nurses her 7 year old, and discusses how old some people think is too old for nursing.
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Old 01-03-2009, 12:28 AM
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So at the time, the child was around 7/8. I wonder if she's still breastfeeding.

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...ad.php?t=96923
Is that the same lady whose little girl (the oldest) talked about how much she missed nursing? She said she was jealous that her sister still got to because "breast milk is the best thing in the world...it tastes better than mangos."

ETA: Yup. That's them. This woman was on The Tyra Show I think and the audience thought she was NUTS.
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Old 01-03-2009, 01:22 AM
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That sad, but not as sad as the lady who breastfeeds her (i think) 9 year old daughter. I remember we had an article on GC about her. I gotta find it.
I don't recall the article, but I think this is the lady: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxv6R9fUO74
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Old 01-03-2009, 01:26 AM
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Whatever happened to protecting your children?
They'll sacrifice anything for their cause apparently.
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Old 01-03-2009, 01:34 AM
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I don't recall the article, but I think this is the lady: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxv6R9fUO74

OMG I feel nauseous. Sick is an understatement. They draw PICTURES and TALK to her breasts? Does she not realize this is sick?????? Someone needs to call their equivalent of DSS on her. Immediately. This woman is beyond nuts.

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Old 01-03-2009, 01:35 AM
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They'll sacrifice anything for their cause apparently.
Which shows their lack of sincerity in my opinion.
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