Breastmilk, it's what's for dinner!

Oh, the joys of motherhood and breastfeeding. Our youngest daughter is the first baby that I have been able to nurse longer than three months, and I love nursing her almost as much as she loves nursing. Being almost 13 1/2 months old, she can be a little bit of a booger sometimes. A couple of nights ago when she wanted to nurse, I was talking to my husband and not really paying attention to her gently patting my leg. When she wants to nurse she usually just makes this funny sound, almost like a laugh and then she lays herself down across my lap. She couldn't easily climb onto the couch and on my lap, but she finally got my attention and I picked her up. She then started repeatedly nose diving into my chest, my husband and I were laughing hysterically. Some people may thinks it's inapproriate to nurse a child that is this old, but I feel as long as she wants to nurse and is getting nutritional benefits from it, it's alright. Now my mom on the other hand thinks it is "new age" to nurse a older child, but I totally disagree. I personally feel that extended breastfeeding was something that women have been doing since the beginning of time, there is nothing new about it. In fact, I think that saying a child needs to be weaned at one year old is the "new age" thing to do. I don't want to make my mom out to be a horrible person because she is not at all. She was a stay at home mom the whole time my brother and I were in school, she even nursed both of us until we were around ten months old. She is very pro-breastfeeding, but not so much pro-nursing in public or extended breastfeeding. My mom is a wonderful person and a awesome mom, we just disagree on some things when it comes to mothering. Now don't even get me started on nursing in public!