Taking the Scenic Route

You know what I find really annoying?  I get these babycenter bulletins every week talking about the milestones your child should be hitting and other articles.  (no idea how this spam started, but it is interesting, so I kept it).  This weeks articles were all about weaning.  For 8 months olds.  It just pisses me off that people think this is normal.  What is even worse is they have lots of “how to start supplementing with formula” type things.  Um, if you still *need* to supplement with formula, then why on EARTH would you stop breastfeeding.  If you have been blessed to make it to 8 months breastfeeding, why can’t you just hang on until at LEAST a year old, when you don’t have to supplement.  (I actually don’t think you should wean then either, but that is for another post). 

I know there is a place for formula and I was lucky to have the support and knowledge to get through some tough breastfeeding issues, but if you are at 8 months, one can assume that, except for an infinitely small minority who have the persistence to still be pumping exclusively (and bless those mamas…I don’t know if I could do it), you have this breastfeeding thing down by now.  Why invest money and time into changing things to give your baby less than the best when you already have the normal way of feeding figured out?  It is just 4 more months until you hit the 1 year mark…just hang with it a bit longer.  I do not get weaning from the breast at this point at all.