RE: wooden crib (Re: Re:Flame Retardants)

[Guest guest]

Thanks ,

I fully expect the baby to spend most of the time in my bed (which is

also a futon on the floor). I played around with the idea of getting

a kids size futon for next to ours when the baby gets big enough, but

I wasn't so sure about multiple mattresses - so that is one of the

reasons I got a king mattress instead of the queen I was originally

looking at. The crib was a hand me down and I'm sure it'll be handy

sometime, but it certainly wasn't *my* main plan. I'm still

trying to break my SO into the idea of breastfeeding past 1 year...

he's warming up to 2 years but thinks 3 might detriment the baby

because it'll be too attached to me. We'll get there!

Thanks for the polish/cleaning recommendations!

-Lana

On Feb 5, 2008 3:44 PM, Steinbachs <jen@...> wrote:

> We mostly sleep on our futon, he on his mattress beside us - all on the floor.

> Yes, our master bedroom is mostly bed. Not something you'd see in

> Better Living.

>

> This arrangement has been super duper convenient <snip>

>

> Just plan to be flexible with the whole crib thing

[Guest guest]

Hey Lana,

I breastfed both my babies who are now 29 and 19 but you 'MAY' be surprised

if they wean sooner than you think. My son weaned himself at 13 months and

my daughter weaned herself at 9 months. But if you let nature take it's

place, the baby will wean when it wants so you might get one that weans

longer and maybe not!

Allyn

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Subject: Re: wooden crib (Re: Re:Flame Retardants)

Thanks ,

I fully expect the baby to spend most of the time in my bed (which is

also a futon on the floor). I played around with the idea of getting

a kids size futon for next to ours when the baby gets big enough, but

I wasn't so sure about multiple mattresses - so that is one of the

reasons I got a king mattress instead of the queen I was originally

looking at. The crib was a hand me down and I'm sure it'll be handy

sometime, but it certainly wasn't *my* main plan. I'm still

trying to break my SO into the idea of breastfeeding past 1 year...

he's warming up to 2 years but thinks 3 might detriment the baby

because it'll be too attached to me. We'll get there!

Thanks for the polish/cleaning recommendations!

-Lana

On Feb 5, 2008 3:44 PM, Steinbachs <jensteinbachs (DOT)

<mailto:jen%40steinbachs.org> org> wrote:

> We mostly sleep on our futon, he on his mattress beside us - all on the

floor.

> Yes, our master bedroom is mostly bed. Not something you'd see in

> Better Living.

>

> This arrangement has been super duper convenient <snip>

>

> Just plan to be flexible with the whole crib thing

[Guest guest]

Allyn,

Gee, that'd sure be disappointing... Thanks for the warning!

-Lana

On Feb 5, 2008 5:29 PM, ALLYN FERRIS <aferris7272@...> wrote:

> Hey Lana,

> I breastfed both my babies who are now 29 and 19 but you 'MAY' be surprised

> if they wean sooner than you think. My son weaned himself at 13 months and

> my daughter weaned herself at 9 months. But if you let nature take it's

> place, the baby will wean when it wants so you might get one that weans

> longer and maybe not!

> Allyn

[Guest guest]

I saw Kathy Dettwyler speak not too long ago

(http://www.kathydettwyler.org/dettwyler.html

). She did some research on breastfeeding in non-human primates and

asked the question (my wording): If humans weren't subjected to

sociocultural norms, how long would human basic biology dictate

breastfeeding to last?

One of the first things that popped out was that age of weaning was

often 6 times the length of gestation - putting (unconstrained) human

weaning to be potentially around 4.5 yrs. Another factor that popped

out was that age of weaning often correlated with the emergence of

first permanent molars - putting (unconstrained) human weaning to be

potentially as late as 6 yrs.

Body size also has a large factor in impacting the age of weaning.

In general, there is sufficient variation in these biological

correlates that she found that a natural unconstrained age of weaning

in humans should range between 2.5 and 7 yrs. But see

http://www.kathydettwyler.org/detwean.html

-jennifer

On Feb 6, 2008, at 7:55 AM, raemom76 wrote:

>

> If you don't already subscribe to mothering magazine, check out their

> website-www.mothering.com. I know they just had an article on the

> benefits of extended breastfeeding and how nutritionally and

> emotionally it is good. My first weaned at 18mos, my second had to at

> 14 mos and I'm still nursing my 20mos. Good luck

>

> actually, here's that article

> http://www.mothering.com/articles/new_baby/breastfeeding/extended-

> breastfeeding.html

>

>

>

>

>

> I'm still

>> trying to break my SO into the idea of breastfeeding past 1 year...

>> he's warming up to 2 years but thinks 3 might detriment the baby

>> because it'll be too attached to me. We'll get there!

>>

>

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>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Lana,

If a child weans before 2 1/2 years, it's actually a nursing strike and not

true weaning. There is a huge difference. A strike is temporary and

happens abruptly. True weaning happens very gradually over a period of

weeks or months.

Children under 2 1/2 strike for various reasons, mostly illness, teething,

and being upset over something.

KerryAnn

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