In which it is suggested that I have a more recent entry without screened comments

[beetiger]

Life continues, and it nearly always does, in one form or another. My websites are not nearly busy enough. (If anyone still wants to do some holiday shopping, I'll do my darndest to get things to you on time.)

Last night, I dragged myself and Rhys to a La Leche League meeting instead of the weekly Ars Magica game, because they'd bugged me about a book I had out from their library and because I could still use some support on this whole toddler nursing thing. Left leaving angry and discouraged, as most of the women I'd found helpful in the past were not there, and the particular leader running this time was the aggressive and unsympathetic one. She told me (and the group) that even though several of La Leche's books mention this as a good idea, limiting night nursing for toddlers is "very much not recommended" and that I was likely "not meeting Rhys' basic needs and this could have very bad repercussions down the line". Right. Because nursing on demand is way more important than learning to abide by reasonable limits is for a two-year old. Also, two year olds *never* ask for anything that doesn't meet a basic need. Of course.

I know a few of you here are nursing/have nursed toddlers -- support please?

This morning I got big fuzzy down slippers, and some lovely purple and red flowers in a very very red vase just showed up. I'm hoping the big box with my big present arrives today, but probably not.

It's mariethebee's birthday today too, so people from the Sampler are spouting birthday wished for Bee all over the place and I can pretend they are for me. Also, an offline friend of mine (Hi, Yvon!) also has a birthday today, and he had a dream about giving me birthday spankings, So whee!

Comments

[ladyperegrine.livejournal.com]

As you know, I'm still nursing a three-year-old, but it's not like I think that's the 'right' thing to do; that's just what I ended up doing with El.

I think the issue is more that of the leader acting like a jerk than what's appropriate and reasonable, which certainly your parenting is.

I think some people who are insecure about their own choices--and I'm sure many LLL people get a lot of flak from friends/family in the mainstream--have to violently react to anything that doesn't sound exactly like what they're doing. You know what's right for you and your family, and that's the important thing.

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

It's morethat she feels she needs to share LLL "party line", which I guess is okay, and that she's utterly uncompassionate or flexible, which is not okay. Her kids are all adults.