{"id":463,"date":"2008-05-20T09:05:57","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T13:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=463"},"modified":"2015-11-01T00:01:25","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T04:01:25","slug":"id-rather-have-lots-of-breast-milk-than-a-million-melons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=463","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I&#8217;d rather have lots of breast milk than a million melons!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/screen60.jpg\" title=\"Truly a big girl now.\" ><img title=\"Truly a big girl now.\" alt=\"Truly a big girl now.\" src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/screen60.jpg\" width=\"500\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Soon we&#8217;re gonna need a bigger couch: Eliza Robinson, 7, cozies up to mother, Veronica, for a tasty snack<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kids say the darndest things: The quote, above, comes from a 2005 UK documentary, <a href=\"http:\/\/rdfinternational.com\/Programme.aspx?id=2534\"  target=\"_blank\"><em>Extraordinary Breastfeeding<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 60-minute film features British women who&#8217;ve continued to suckle their young past the recommended age of 2 1\/4, and some well into elementary school. Bethany Robinson, older daughter of Veronica, above, who prefers milk to melons, or even, as she says in one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uHRyRCHuQ7g\"  target=\"_blank\">clip<\/a>, mangoes, breastfed until age 5. Her sister, Eliza, above, is nearly 8.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I&#8217;m a person who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/01\/health\/research\/01breast.html?pagewanted=print\"  target=\"_blank\">strongly supports the breast-feeding of infants<\/a> for the nutritional, emotional, and health benefits it bequeaths the child. I don&#8217;t believe bottles and formula can replace these, but I&#8217;m not gonna Tom Cruise this. Obviously, mothers have to knowledgeably work this out with thoughtful pediatricians.<\/p>\n<p>However, this doc\u2014that is, what I&#8217;ve seen on producers RDF International&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rdfinternational.com\/Programme.aspx?id=2534\"  target=\"_blank\">web site<\/a>, and on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uHRyRCHuQ7g\"  target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>\u2014utterly confuses me.<\/p>\n<p>Is this about mothers, taking a super-vital, super-personal interest in their children&#8217;s health and well-being; sort of the lactic equivalent of home-schooling?<\/p>\n<p>Or is this merely &#8220;crazy white people stuff&#8221;; overindulgence; taking a good thing past the limits of appropriateness and sense?<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soon we&#8217;re gonna need a bigger couch: Eliza Robinson, 7, cozies up to mother, Veronica, for a tasty snack Kids say the darndest things: The quote, above, comes from a 2005 UK documentary, Extraordinary Breastfeeding. The 60-minute film features British women who&#8217;ve continued to suckle their young past the recommended age of 2 1\/4, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45,46,67],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7945,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/7945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}