# Nipples and breastfeeding

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nipples-and-breastfeeding/100499>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 28, 2002, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nipples-and-breastfeeding/100499 "2002-03-28T02:43:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![zber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c5a1d2/32.png) [@zber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zber)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nipples-and-breastfeeding/100499/21 "2002-04-01T16:02:35Z")

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**Doublemint**

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> Still wouldn’t mind a bit of a reduction. Perhaps I should joint the cast of Survivor live off rice and cockroaches, catch dysentery and lose all excess fat that way…little extreme?

Yup - maybe just a tad into the land of the deep end.

\*\* Bad News Baboon \*\* - There is a huge variation on how long individuals breastfeed. The best advice I got was to make sure I gave it a try for 40 days - that is about how long it took for us to get into the swing of things. I was originally planning on breastfeeding for 6 months but I am now thinking that I will go for a year and see how the little one feels about weaning. I have a feeling that I will (like Cranky) miss this when we stop.

Thanks for the encouragement about the nipple placement.

z

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