Mothering Your Nursing Toddler Book

	Foreword	xi
	1980 foreword	xii
	Introduction	xvii
	An Investment, Not a Sacrifice	xvii
	Breastfeeding Is One of the Basics	xxii
	Managing Children's Lives	xxiv
	The Real Goal of Parenting--Self-Sufficiency	xxv
Part 1	Nursing Your Toddler--Why?
Chapter 1	Why Children Nurse into Toddlerhood	3
	Sucking, a Tool for Growing	3
Chapter 2	Why Mothers Nurse Their Children into Toddlerhood	7
	Seeing a Need	7
	A Health Plus	7
	Closeness	14
	Comfort	17
	When There Are Older Siblings	18
	Other Advantages	19
	When Experience Speaks	20
Chapter 3	Nursing--Still the Best for Your Child	23
	Early Weaning--Not Recommended for Children	23
	Nursing and Weight Gain	32
	Nutrition and the Nursing Toddler	39
	Night Nursing--A Factor in Tooth Decay?	41
Chapter 4	Nursing--Still the Best for Yourself	49
	Mother's Nutritional Needs	49
	Prolonging Lactational Amenorrhea	52
	Other Physical Effects of Nursing	56
	Dealing with Your Own Doubts	57
	Coping with Family Pressure	59
	Coping with Pressure from Outsiders	62
	Fun and Games	71
Chapter 5	Glimpses into Other Times and Cultures	75
	History	75
	Using What We Learn from Other Cultures	90
Part 2	Nursing Your Toddler--How?
Chapter 6	When Nursing Presents Challenges	97
	Nursing and Automobile Safety	97
	Breast Problems	99
	Sensual/Sexual Aspects of Breastfeeding	107
	Social Service Agencies and the Courts	110
	Biting	111
	Illness in the Nursing Mother	115
	Multiples	117
Chapter 7	Pregnancy and Tandem Nursing	121
	Nursing Two	132
Chapter 8	Getting Enough Rest	151
	Night Duty	151
	When Needs Clash	153
	Frequent Night Waking	156
Chapter 9	Marriage and Life with a Nursing Toddler	167
	Changes in Sexual Interest	167
	Re-Staging the Lovemaking	172
Chapter 10	Unique Circumstances	175
	Employment Away from Home	175
	Your Adopted Child	188
	Your Last Child	190
Chapter 11	Fathering and the Nursing Toddler	193
	A Father's Influence	193
	The Importance of Fathering	196
	Coping with a Mommy's Baby	197
	Fathering Your Nursing Toddler	199
	Husbanding Your Nursing Wife	203
Part 3	Nursing Your Toddler Year by Year
Chapter 12	Nursing in the Second Year	209
	The Nursing Toddler--A Baby on Wheels	209
	Toddler Nursing Strike	211
	Nursing Leaves One Hand Free	212
	Getting Through the Peak Time for Criticism	216
Chapter 13	Nursing Through the Terrible Twos	219
	"Terrible Twos"--No Longer Terrible	219
	Talking About Nursing	222
	Frequent Nursing in a Two-Year-Old	225
	Getting Sick of Nursing	230
Chapter 14	Nursing a Three-Year-Old	233
	Babyhood's Last Shadow	233
	Talking about Nursing and about Weaning	235
Chapter 15	Nursing Past Four	239
	The Specter of Nursing Forever	239
	Becoming Part of a Memory	242
	Peer Pressure	243
Part 4	Weaning
Chapter 16	"Natural" Weaning	249
	The Child under Three	249
	After Three	252
	Resuming Nursing after Weaning	253
	Spontaneous Weaning in Children over Four	256
Chapter 17	Time-Honored (or Time-Worn?) Approaches to Weaning	259
	Initiating Weaning	259
	The "Mother's Week Out" Approach, or Weaning by Abandonment	260
	The "Spicy Burrito" Method	263
	The Return of Frankenstein's Monster	264
	Crying It Out	265
Chapter 18	Some Less Dramatic Weaning Techniques	267
	Serious Business	267
	"Don't Offer, Don't Refuse"	268
	Distraction	269
	Substitution	270
	Postponement	272
	Shortening the Nursings	273
	Weaning by Contract	273
	Father and Weaning	275
	Spot Weaning	276
	Weaning by Capitulation	277
Chapter 19	Making the Best of Nursing or Weaning	279
	Deciding to Wean	279
	Weaning in an Emergency	285
	Living Short of the Ideal	286
	Effects of Weaning on Mother	287
	Bibliography	291
	Resources	297
	Index	301