Rufus Xavier:
I understand this is somewhat common. In any case, I personally did this. I was one year old (I don’t know how many months), and I looked up at my mom while she was about to nurse me and said, “Titty, uh-uh.” Surprised, she said, “What?” “Titty, uh-uh.” Apparently I was quite firm about it. Tah dah, I weaned myself. There was nothing wrong with her diet as far as I know. The other three kids had to be weaned.
If only my cousin was like you instead of hanging on for dear life until she was at least 4.
The worst part of it was that her mother and father ran a hotel using their house as the office, so complete strangers would walk in to catch completely nude 3-4 year old clamped onto my auntie’s breast. :rolleyes:
It was bad enough I had to see it. : shiver :
OOh! :eek:
Car wreck outside! Carry on!
:: quease ::
I thought chocolate was bad for dogs, even poisonous in large amounts?
But there’s a difference between ‘bonding’ with a pet and ‘infantilising’ or 'anthropomorphising’it. In the first case you’re treating it as the animal it is, and in the second case, you’re treating it as an infant or child human.
My friends who had huskies (and at one point were training them to the sled) loved those dogs… but they were very aware of them as dogs and as pack animals, and were careful to establish themselves as alpha male and female. Once this dominance was established, everyone got along fine.
A small dog may still be fully-grown, with mature canine instincts and needs. If you treat it as a baby, it won’t get what it needs, and it won’t give the expected responses that a child would. Hence my aunt’s Chihuahua’s neurotic hair-trigger territoriality: I am convinced that my aunt saw the dog more as a human than as a dog, and wasn’t aware of, for instance, the way to firmly establish that all the family was ‘alpha’. I suspect she saw the dog’s misbehaviours as separate incidents that could be trained away logically, and had no sense of how they followed a larger pattern connected with the instincts of the dog.
How does this harm the owner? By not having a good sense of the problems with her dog’s behaviour and how to cure them, my aunt certainly strained relationships in my family. Now, these were not large strains in the greater scheme of things, but they do serve as an example.
Nah, that’s just like using a wet nurse. Pretty common in the past.
But a puppy? Um…no. Dogs need to see you as the alpha leader, not as dear old Mommy Dog.
Well, on the one hand? Whatever floats your boat, lady. So long as its not disturbing others or harming people? Go for it.
But, on the other hand? ew. No dog is coming anywhere near my bare breasts, thank you very much.
Nothing like telling Phideaux to fetch, and he returns with a 36C front clasp underwire in black. 
Wasn’t the female alpha wolf the only one in the pack allowed to get a litter in the first place? The two aren’t mutually exclusive.
So if she adopts a pet bird will she vomit worms into its mouth?
I’m not buying that a 2 month old chose to stop breast feeding. The baby should still be taking breast milk for reasons beyond nutrition.
And why would the dog protect the child, because mom nursed the pup? I’m not a dog fan, so I don’t know much about pack mentality. Does she think the dog will see the child as a litter mate?
Sorry, too icky.
harmless tell us about the car wreck. It will take my mind off, you know… that other thing. But, DON’T SING!
This often happens if the child is introduced to a bottle at all, even bottled breast milk. Some babies just prefer eating from a bottle, it is easier than breastfeeding, and then will refuse the breast. It happened to my sister, and it is quite common around 2-3 months because that’s when mothers are returning to work and need to teach their baby to use a bottle. This is why it is not recommended to introduce a bottle to a baby before breastfeeding is well established, at least 4-6 weeks old.
Then again, I waited until 5 weeks to introduce a bottle, and it backfired - my son is now 4 months and still won’t accept a bottle at all!
QUOTE=picunurse]harmless tell us about the car wreck. It will take my mind off, you know… that other thing. But, DON’T SING!
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Yesterday, I heard two cars crash not so far away
Now it looks as though both drivers are ok
Oh, I heard a crash yesterday.
Suddenly, I have to call our TPD,
Someone should notify their family.
Oh, they collided suddenly.
Why she thought she could go I don’t know she wouldn’t say.
She did something wrong, now her insurance will pay.
Yesterday, they both though they had the right of way.
Now they must be towed away.
Oh, I heard a crash yesterday.
Mm mm mm mm mm.
Nobody was hurt
But some lyrics have been severly mangled. 
In a reverse sort of way (how my brain works), this reminds me of a story I saw on MTV (source of all important information) - when the band Green Day first started out, they were poor punks who slept on people’s floors. One morning, Tre Cool (mmmm, yummy drummer) got up and fixed coffee. Oops, no milk or cream, what to do? Next shot (and I know these stories are all true) is Mr. Cool milking a dog so he can lighten up that black coffee a bit. This is your brain on drugs!
At least it was a Staffordshire bull terrier pup - and not a full-grown St. Bernard.
Cuz they tend to leave hickies. 
I’ve read this over and over in parenting magazines, and while I am an ardent supporter of breast feeding, I think it’s La Leche League fearmongoring crap. I nanny, mostly for newborns, and in my experience, babies have no trouble doing both bottle and breast unless mom is feeling ambivalent. This holds for littles who had their first bottle at two weeks or six months. It can be very hard to give up the wonderful time you share together nursing, even for one feeding, and babies are amazingly good at reading their mom’s tension, despite the good face we try to put on. Once mom realizes that she’s not going to lose her special bond with the baby by letting others feed her (in fact, she can bond better when she has the energy and time to do so), things never fail to get better.
Conversely, it’s a lot easier to formula feed in many ways, especially when you’re an exhausted working mom. Moms who are at work all day often find a midnight feeding just impossible, and a formula fed baby sleeps through the night sooner or someone else can help share the late feeds. Some moms try to breastfeed anyway and feel resentful, which baby also picks up on and becomes fretful. This is seen as evidence that the baby is refusing the breast in favor of the “easier” bottle.
The exception to this is that many babies will not take a bottle from anyone at all if mom is in the house. I myself was one of these. See what happens if you leave and dad (or the favorite babysitter) offers him a bottle. It may take a few tries and a few tears, but I bet it will work. (Going to the basement, the attic or elsewhere in the house won’t work. You really have to be all the way, baby-can’t-smell-you-anymore gone.) There’s also literally dozens of nipples out there, each one proclaiming to be “most like mom,” and you may just need to try a few and see what he likes best.
As for the OP, what I can’t help wondering is how the news outlet found out about this in the first place. Was this woman nursing her puppy in public?
Nobody was hurt
But some lyrics have been severly mangled.
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Easy for you to say! :wally
Mind if I sample that and use it for a break mix on my next DJ gig?
<mimes scratching a turntable with a funky white-boy head-bob, chanting “titty, uh-uh. titty, uh-uh…”>
Believe me, we have tried all this, and more. Dad offering bottle many times, grandma, day care provider, aunts. We tried offering a bottle away from home, at home, with me there and gone. In fact Grandma and day care provider still offer him a bottle every time he is there (3 days a week). He will mouth the nipple but not latch on and suck. They end up squirting a bit in at a time or using a medicine dropper to tide him over, he will accept a few ounces that way. When he is done, he is done, he will cry himself to sleep if you don’t take it away. If you offer it to him again when he wakes up he will cry himself to sleep again. Repeat. I have cupboards full of every conceivable style, brand, shape, flow, and material nipple there is. We tried breast milk and formula, warm, cold, etc. I have consulted with his pediatrician, La Leche, and various lactation consultants and everyone is out of ideas. Currently I leave work to go to his daycare to feed him and I’m planning on doing this until he can learn to drink from a cup. He won’t take a pacifier either - he just doesn’t seem to like the sensation of artificial nipples at all. He likes to suck his fingers.
You may be right about the nipple confusion not really being a problem, I know that my niece did like the bottle better when she started that, but I don’t think my sister was that committed to continuing nursing so she may not have tried to nurse much after that either. Waiting for 4-6 weeks was what everyone told me to do, and this being my first baby I didn’t know any different. Next time I will know!
Anyway, back to the story…you’re right I didn’t even think to wonder how the press ever learned about this in the first place!
(Forgive me if someone’s mentioned this before, I don’t mean to burden or nag you, but I’d feel awful if it was the solution and no one mentioned it.)
Does he like to suck grown up fingers? A Supplemental Nursing System can be used to give your breast milk or formula through a tube that a grown up holds alongside her finger (its more common use is taped to the nipple, but I doubt Grandma would be down with that idea). If he’s a finger-sucker, he might like this better. Hazelbaker makes one with a short tube, specifically for finger-feeding.
I sowwy…
But the cat did come back the very next day.