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<div>Originally Posted by <strong>Katiemare</strong></div>
<div style="font-style:italic;">--I think it would be a disservice for me to allow my child to nurse all night long.....It also would not send him the important message that Mamma is a person who has individual needs and feelings.</div>
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I just wanted to say that I *totally* disagree with this!!! You are basically saying that everyone who *doesn't* night wean or enforce some other articial nursing schedule will be raising their nurslings to believe that Mamma doesn't have her own needs. Perhaps you didn't mean that, but it is what you imply by saying that a baby doesn't get the message that his mamma has needs unless he is night weaned. I'm very happy that you were able to find a way to continue nursing and still meet your needs and your son's, but to make a statement like that....It simply isn't true. If you had continued to night nurse, it would not in any way have stopped your son from learning that you also have needs and feelings. It makes me sad that you said that.
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<div>Originally Posted by <strong>Katiemare</strong></div>
<div style="font-style:italic;">--I think it would be a disservice for me to allow my child to nurse all night long.....It also would not send him the important message that Mamma is a person who has individual needs and feelings.</div>
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I just wanted to say that I *totally* disagree with this!!! You are basically saying that everyone who *doesn't* night wean or enforce some other articial nursing schedule will be raising their nurslings to believe that Mamma doesn't have her own needs. Perhaps you didn't mean that, but it is what you imply by saying that a baby doesn't get the message that his mamma has needs unless he is night weaned. I'm very happy that you were able to find a way to continue nursing and still meet your needs and your son's, but to make a statement like that....It simply isn't true. If you had continued to night nurse, it would not in any way have stopped your son from learning that you also have needs and feelings. It makes me sad that you said that.