[Lady Albert]

Hello,

There is a great article that was recently published in a LLL magazine about nursing older adopted babies. It really appealed to me b/c I nurse my 2 year old daughter and would love to try to nurse my adopted daughter from China (who will be any where from 4 mo -18 mo in age).

Anyway, just wanted to make this article accessible to everyone who is interested:
http://www.lalecheleague.org/llleade...tNov04p99.html

Suzy

[mom2GRLC]

Thank you for sharing this information.

[mrs_tigger]

That is a great article....thanks for sharing

[kimmybee]

thank you so much, I was going back and forth on this issue. My friends say I should be thankful for a bottle fed crib sleeping baby but my other two bio. weren't and this would be a nice change, but I have to believe in what I am as a mother and that is a co sleeping sling wearing extended nursing attached mommy and now I have new resolve that when we are given our precious boy even if he is a bit older I'm going to give this a go. Plus I think I'm still making milk on one side. go figure. maybe this was all in the plan. thank you now I will research more.

[everandaday]

I stopped breastfeeding my bio son at 10 months when he weaned himself, but I kept lactating a little until he was 3! If a baby were placed with us I would undoubtably try to BF again, but as it happens we are adopting a 7 year old, so that would probably traumatize the poor child.

For those of you who are considering it I would definitely say that is a great idea though. In my experience it really wasn't hard at all, and it's so much easier when your baby wakes you up at 5 in the morning to just nurse him than to mix formula, warm formula, or whatever! Plus it definitely helps you bond to your baby, and it's relaxing and nice.
Good luck to everyone!