{"id":494,"date":"2003-05-27T20:14:01","date_gmt":"2003-05-28T01:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=494"},"modified":"2003-05-27T20:14:01","modified_gmt":"2003-05-28T01:14:01","slug":"extended-nursin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2003\/05\/extended-nursin\/","title":{"rendered":"Extended nursing My husband alerted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Extended nursing<\/b><br \/>\nMy husband alerted me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A42397-2003May26.html\">this article<\/a> in today&#8217;s Washington Post (requires a couple of marketing questions):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There was good evidence that nursing beyond a year has health benefits to babies and mothers,&#8221; says Lawrence Gartner, chair of the AAP&#8217;s Executive Committee, of the section on breast-feeding. Specifically, for the baby, the benefits are nutritional, immunological and developmental. For the mother, they include a possibly lower rate of premenopausal breast cancer. Nursing also can calm an agitated toddler.<br \/>\nSome studies suggest that if babies were left to wean naturally, the normal weaning age for modern humans would be between 2 1\/2 and 7 years, says Katherine Dettwyler, a noted anthropologist and author who has been conducting research on culture and breast-feeding since 1981&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A42397-2003May26.html\">Hey, Mom, Can I Nurse Now?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extended nursing My husband alerted me to this article in today&#8217;s Washington Post (requires a couple of marketing questions): There was good evidence that nursing beyond a year has health benefits to babies and mothers,&#8221; says Lawrence Gartner, chair of the AAP&#8217;s Executive Committee, of the section on breast-feeding. Specifically, for the baby, the benefits&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2003\/05\/extended-nursin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Extended nursing My husband alerted<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}