Wednesday, March 14, 2007

What, teeth and all?

I was sitting in a waiting room recently waiting for my psychologist - first appointment, somewhat daunting - and I fed Baby while there, because she was hungry. The receptionist walked by - "Awww!" she said, "How old is she?"

"Gosh, seven months now, I keep thinking it's only six but it's seven now. Wow."

"And you're still feeding her?"

I was so shocked I just blurted out "I'm still feeding my three-year -old, I'm not going ot stop feeding this one."

"What, all those teeth?"

"If I'd stopped when the three-year-old had got teeth I'd have stopped at three months; she'd have starved."

The receptionist was pleasant, but it was only afterwards that I remembered that actually quite a lot of people stop before three months, because there are alternatives out there. It honestly didn't occur to me at the time.

The psychologist is very impressed with my peanut shell sling, approves strongly of cosleeping, and was flexible about working around the fact that I have a separation-anxiety-phase breastfed baby to deal with. Nice lady :)

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