{"id":471,"date":"2006-02-05T23:52:35","date_gmt":"2006-02-06T04:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/05\/9-year-old-can-wean-when-shes-ready\/"},"modified":"2006-02-05T23:52:35","modified_gmt":"2006-02-06T04:52:35","slug":"9-year-old-can-wean-when-shes-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/05\/9-year-old-can-wean-when-shes-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"9 year old can wean when she&#8217;s ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsandstar.co.uk\/news\/viewarticle.aspx?id=328277\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA PENRITH mum has appeared on national TV to explain why she is still breastfeeding her daughter who is nearly eight \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and why she gave her older daughter breast milk as a ninth birthday present.<\/p>\n<p>Veronika Robinson appeared on the Channel 4 programme Extraordinary Breastfeeding as a passionate advocate of allowing children to decided when they give up breast milk.<\/p>\n<p>Elizah is approaching her eighth birthday and is not happy at the prospect of giving up her daily feed. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to be weaned. I want to breastfeed for ever,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview before the TV programme, 38-year-old Veronika described her reaction when Bethany asked for breast milk for her ninth birthday. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I was delighted, if a little taken aback,&#8217; she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I&#8217;d stopped breastfeeding Bethany when she was five \u00e2\u20ac\u201c though I was continuing to feed her younger sister, Elizah \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but obviously she clearly remembered what a wonderful feeling it had been. It was the best thing she could imagine and, presented like that, it seemed like a great idea.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Veronika, who edits an alternative-parenting magazine called The Mother continued: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153My girls were brought up to think it was completely normal to ask for a breast in a shop,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she says. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bad enough when they are toddlers, but when they are big girls, people get freaked out by it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: A PENRITH mum has appeared on national TV to explain why she is still breastfeeding her daughter who is nearly eight \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and why she gave her older daughter breast milk as a ninth birthday present. Veronika Robinson appeared on the Channel 4 programme Extraordinary Breastfeeding as a passionate advocate of allowing children [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crumb-catchers","category-idiotic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}