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[galadrine]

Remember the breastfeeding icon wank from months ago?  Well, now MYSPACE is being exposed!!!!!!!!!!

f@($&%! Myspace!!!!1!!1
Someone in one of the breastfeeding communities brought this to my attention. There's a woman that Myspace is threatening to remove from the site because she continues to post pictures of herself breastfeeding her child. I'm

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[creamicannoli]

Dear boob_nazis
Please SHUT THE FUCK UP about your boobies pictures.
I had a longer rant in mind, but I must go make a bottle of formula for my 7 month old.

[inawhile]

Whyyyy do people do this? WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY.

[xeonha]

Baby attatched or not, did they ever stop to think like say, 10-12 year olds are on that site? I know if I was surfing that site at that age and randomly was hit with a picture of a naked breast, baby or not, and my parents saw, I'd be in deep shit.

[czol]

I don't see why they should have to consider 10-12 year olds, seeing the minimum age on Myspace is 14. (Yeah there are people who are younger but lie about their age, but I don't see how anyone should bend over backwards for people who aren't even supposed to be there in the first place.)

[sio]

agreed.

teenagers shouldn't be on dumbspace, period. then again i'm tired of all the accusations dumbspace gets when someone's irresponsible brat goes missing and is raped/murdered by some pervert who found them on the site. because yea it's a website's fault that you couldn't monitor your damn children!

/rant

[xeonha]

-snort- Actually, I think it's a great example of 'natural selection'.

[startsstopping]

Okay, I just looked at her myspace and saw something to the effect of "Yes, he's still breastfeeding!" And she has a 1-year breastfeeding milestone marked. This seems like a long time to be suckling teat.

Since I've never had a baby and am not aware of these things, what's the average time a baby is breastfed for? (And not average to the people who breastfeed until age two. I mean the agreed-upon average by like, the scientific community.)

[ex_thexphial147]

Medical sources and the World Health Org agree that one year is the recommended minimum unless the kid self-weens before that.

Past one year, it's not a scientific standard, it's a cultural one. In some countries with bad water, etc, the scientific community does suggest breastfeeding longer, up to 3-5 years. In developed countries, it has more to do with expediency and cultural expectation.

[merlyn4401]

Alos, while breastfeeding until 1 is the current recommendation, that doesn't necessarily mean EXCLUSIVELY breastfeeding. I breastfed my boys for about a yera apiece, but I also started them on solids at 6 months. We slowly made the transition from getting the bulk of food/nutrients from breastmilk to solid food over a period of about 5 months, then spent a month or so weaning.

[czol]

That's nothing - there are extreme attachment parenting types who are still breastfeeding their kids when they're 10.

[flyingwild]

Christ, this whole argument is stupid.

Number one, no nudity at all is allowed to be posted on myspace.

Number two, it's a privately owned website. They can decide what they want posted on there and what they don't like, and there's really not a damn thing anyone can do about it. Rights do not really exist on the internet.