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This Mom Teaches Her Son Surgery With Playdough Thanks to @TheBreakfasteur (Youtube: youtube.com/channel/UC7J5njZ1UHnmKLuNSToKkUQ , Instagram: instagram.com/thebreakfasteur/)

This is why you should text a new mum before just dropping in. (Images: https://www.instagram.com/arynlindsey/)

Sending my warmest regards for the families preparing to face Christmas with missing little ones

Children do not need encouragement to stop breastfeeding. Much less to be forced. Doing so implies that there is something wrong with their continued breastfeed...ing. There is not. Here one mother's experience as written by her in an email to me: "I wanted to write and say I have living proof that everything you say about breastfeeding is absolutely true! My son is nearly 5 1/2 years old now and still breastfeeds (from one breast.) I still produce milk, even though I am 49 years old. Isn't the human body incredible? He calls it "mommy milk" or "snuggle milk". He has even verbalized to me, in his own words, that when he is hurt or scared, mommy milk helps him feel better. Typically he has a bit in the morning when he wakes up and definitely before bed at night. Do I share this with many people? No, unfortunately, no, but this is a decision for my son and me. He enjoys it, I am fine with it, so it works for us. One day he will decide to stop of course, but I would prefer it to be his decision. My son is confident and independent. He dresses himself, he washes his own hair in the bath (with supervision, of course), he's taking swimming lessons and asked the instructor (voluntarily) to teach him to dive as well. In his senior kindergarten class, he has been encouraged by his teacher to be a leader and role model for his classmates. You and your clinic do AMAZING work and we are so fortunate to have support for breastfeeding in Canada. So thank YOU!" My new book Breastfeeding: Empowering Parents contains an inspiring chapter on breastfeeding older children and self-weaning: https://www.amazon.com/Breastfeeding-Empowering-Jack-New//

Artist Katie Garner shares: "My original intention was to depict birth through the veil, with Heavenly Mother giving the baby to its earthly mother. At some poi...nt I came to realize it was also depicting a baby being given back through the veil to Heavenly Mother, to be safe in her loving arms until the mother and child are reunited once more." FB/KatieGarnerArt