How Old is Too Old to Breast Feed Your Child? Court Case

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[chance33_98]

How Old is Too Old to Breast Feed Your Child? 

How Old is Too Old to Breast Feed Your Child? How old is too old to be breast feeding your child? A controversial case out of Illinois has re-ignited the debate. A young mother there is still breast feeding her eight-year-old. Should she be forced to stop?

Lynne Stuckey said she has been unfairly persecuted for doing something that is perfectly natural: breast feeding her son. But there's a twist - her son is now eight-years-old.

"I did nothing wrong with nursing my child. Kyle is my only son and I'm going to continue nursing him as long as he needs that and until he weens himself."

But child protection authorities did not agree. Her son Kyle was removed from her home for nearly six months and placed in foster care. Lynne and Kyle have undergone counseling and are reunited. Tuesday on Good Morning, America , she showed her face for the first time, saying accusations that the breast feeding was some kind of molestation are absurd.

"You don't nurse your child for yourself when that's something they are needing for comfort. When you do that, you're putting your child first."

An expert on Tuesday morning's show basically agreed, saying it's normal in some cultures for children to breast feed until they are five or six. But it may time for Kyle to be weened.

"There reaches an age when you have to help your child find more mature ways to comfort themselves," said the expert.

"This is a normal thing and people need to know that, and Kyle is a wonderful child," Stuckey said.

By speaking out, Lynne Stuckey said she fears the state may again move to take her child away. The American Academy of Pediatrics said roughly 20% of children are weened by age one, and the vast majority of toddlers are weened by age two.

[sonserae]

I think she's using it for comfort more than the boy is.
Where is her husband or the father of the boy? He probably skipped out of town thinking she's loonier than cartoons.

[Phantom Lord]

As a mother of three boys who were all breast-fed, I have to wonder if this child can use a CUP?

Well, I am 28 years old and come home from work every day with coffee all over my shirt and pants.

I either need to find a women whose breasts produce strong black coffee or get myself one of those toddler sippy cups.

Do they make those for coffee?

[Amelia]

First of all, I'd like to know how the powers that be found out this information. Seems to me it might be the child that ratted on the mom, which seems to me the child just might not want to be breastfeeding but mom is insisting.

Good question. I can't imagine this being something the boy would want his friends to find out.

[ArrogantBustard]

Get a travel mug, with a lid. It's sort of an adult sippy cup. It reduced dribbling, without the embarrassment of having Winnie the Pooh or Barney the Putrid Purple Dinosaur on it. Plus, some of the all stainless steel models are vacuum bottles; your coffee will stay hot longer.

[VRWC_minion]

He is too old when his wife objects.

[chance33_98]

I either need to find a women whose breasts produce strong black coffee

Joceyln Elders?

[VRWCmember]

Speaking of goats (and other farm animals):

A farmer and his wife were lying in bed one evening, she was knitting, he was reading the latest issue of Animal Husbandry. He looks up from the page and says to her, "Did you know that humans are the only species in which the female achieves orgasm?"
She looks at him wistfully, smiles, and replies, "Oh yeah? Prove it."

He frowns for a moment, then says, "O.K." He then gets up and walks out, leaving his wife with a confused look on her face.

About a half an hour later he returns all tired and sweaty and proclaims, "Well I'm sure the cow and sheep didn't, but the way that pig's always squealing, how can I tell?"

[chance33_98]

Want three sugars with that?

[Phantom Lord]

I have a stainless travel mug and I still spill it all over myself!

[Wondervixen]

Or like my husband refers to them, "bubblegum nipples"...LOL

[chance33_98]

"bubblegum nipples"...

Doing a google search on that right now...

[Mrs.LoneGOPinCT]

I didn't breastfeed either of our children (now 2 1/2 and 4 1/2) and neither one has ever had an ear infection. Baby #3 is on the way, and he/she will be formula fed, also.

[chance33_98]

I have a stainless travel mug and I still spill it all over myself!

Sounds like the Janet Reno syndrome - shake, shake, shake. I heard she hits a 4 on the richter scale at times, am sure she spills her coffee too.

[Polybius]

OK, at what point does it become child abuse?

When it's her turn to bring the after-game snacks for the Little League team?

[homeschool mama]

LOL

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Hey, I have one for you....

This lady at a site where I worked was going to the fridge in the company breakroom, when she opened the door, I hear her swear under her breath and say "someone did it again"

"Did what?", I asked.

"Drank my bottle of breastmilk. I pump in the mornings and take it to my son at day care during lunch. This is the fourth time it's happened".

oh man, I was busting up. Some dude was swiping her creamer and using it in his coffee. Her fault in it was she didn't label the clear sippy-cup.

So she posted a note on the fridge asking whoever was stealing her breastmilk and using it for coffee creamer would kindly stop. Wish I could have seen his face.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

[homeschool mama]

I remember some ladies telling me I wouldn't bond with my daughter if I didn't breastfeed. lol.......

[homeschool mama]

Too funny, RBA.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

bill syndrome is the same thing.