I never thought I would say this, but I love my lactivist mother-in-law!

[loving-my-babies]

She is from Chile and came to visit this weekend. It was dh's birthday, and it was also the first time she met ds Vicente (now 8 months) so anyway, she kept saying how chubby and healthy he looks, she kept saying how I *must* nurse him until "I have no milk left" (whenever that is, I'll take it as if she's meaning child-lead weaning) and she asked me if I had started him on solids "this soon", so I told her he is not interested, but he has tried home-made organic babyfood (never jarred) and she said (she keeps telling me what to do, that's the bad part, but at least I agree with her) to only give him if he is interested and only for fun and never replace a nursing for food. That my milk is so perfect for him and crucial for the first year and then after that I can start giving him more food if he wants to. I was so happy to hear all these things! I usually hate people telling me what to do, but this time, I think I'll let her!

[OwensMa]

I love my MIL too, even though she's not a lactivist. Yours sounds like a real dear. Lucky mama!

[Artisan]

It's nice that someone understands and supports your decisions!

My MIL says things like, "I nursed for six weeks and then my milk dried up. My babies turned out fine."

[Ms. Frizzle]

That is wonderful!

[Galatea]

When is Andres's birthday? Adam's was yesterday (Oct. 30th).

Cool on your MIL. Mine bottlefed all hers b/c she didn't know any better. She is cool with us bfing, though, and never says anything bad about any of our parenting choices.

[~Megan~]

You are quite lucky.

We spent 3 weeks with my family and no one ever said a word about dd nursing in the negative sense.
My mom told me how she read in the Bible of nursing until 3 or 4. So she is supportive.
And my grandfather said one night when dd was upset, "You need to go in there and nurse the baby!" obviously seeing what she wanted.

[loving-my-babies]

Lilly... Andres turned 28 on the 29th of October (just like Tiff's new baby, they share their birthday!!)

[soccerchic21]

My MIL is supportive of us nursing too. I was so surprised. She was commenting on how she thought Riley was so well behaved and it had to be because she is breastfed and this long.

[Bethla]

I knew there had to be at least one out there. You lucky!

[KittyKat]

My MIL is supportive too! She knows next to nothing about BF personally, except what she has learned as a Grandma.

When she had DH she was young, had very little support, and was given a shot to dry up her milk after giving birth under general anesthesia. She had never witnessed a birth until she came along for our second child's birth!

She supports BF because she knows I am doing what is best for her grandbabies. DH and FIL both have food allergies, I have reduced the risk of allergies for our kids. Her father had type II diabetes, and I have reduced their risk for that. They are lovely smart healthy kids, and she's proud of them. She also shares our religious beliefs and can't argue with our belief that what God made for babies HAS to be better for them than an expensive man-made imitation.

She is also supportive of our decision to homebirth. She even watched "A Baby Story" when they had an all-day labor day marathon for waterbirth episodes, so she would have some idea how waterbirth works! Amazing!