Yes, same with my friend. She did the babywearing thing constantly, and she's relatively small and a stay at home mom, basically walked around her house all day with her only a shirt on top, and that jacked up above her breasts. She certainly fed on demand. They did the family bed thing until the children were quite old. In fact her middle child recently stopped even the occasional nursing, and she's just turned 6. The two oldest were self-weaned, but the youngest, now 3, also had to be weaned recently because my friend had to go on medication. I'm not so sure how much someone could accuse her of breastfeeding in a particularly american style.
I've no idea when she started getting her period though. That's what made me not buy into it. Pretty much immediately after giving birth, I immediately starting having my period like clockwork. (my whole life, my period has only ever shifted from the third week to the fourth or back, and it picked up right were it had been left off after giving birth without skipping a beat.) And I'd been told you will not get a period while you nurse. at least if you nurse "properly". pft. I very much fed on demand, fed around the clock and all that, and I still had it. I think you just have to take indivigual people's bodies into consideration.
I had been told by a lac. consultant that it seemed as though heavier/stockier (I mean in body build, not in sheer weight) tended, in her exp. to get their periods sooner then lighter/frailer built women. No idea how that holds up, though.
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Re: More info:
Date: 2002-04-25 01:21 pm (UTC)In fact her middle child recently stopped even the occasional nursing, and she's just turned 6. The two oldest were self-weaned, but the youngest, now 3, also had to be weaned recently because my friend had to go on medication. I'm not so sure how much someone could accuse her of breastfeeding in a particularly american style.
I've no idea when she started getting her period though.
That's what made me not buy into it. Pretty much immediately after giving birth, I immediately starting having my period like clockwork. (my whole life, my period has only ever shifted from the third week to the fourth or back, and it picked up right were it had been left off after giving birth without skipping a beat.) And I'd been told you will not get a period while you nurse. at least if you nurse "properly".
pft. I very much fed on demand, fed around the clock and all that, and I still had it. I think you just have to take indivigual people's bodies into consideration.
I had been told by a lac. consultant that it seemed as though heavier/stockier (I mean in body build, not in sheer weight) tended, in her exp. to get their periods sooner then lighter/frailer built women. No idea how that holds up, though.