And honestly, I think that by that age, it's a little weird. If you're the kid's only/primary foodsource, then I'm all for whipping out a boob just like you would a bottle. But by the time the kid is only doing it for comfort/able to walk and talk and ask for it? I think there's some discretion required. I don't know why that's my feeling, but...

Eh, you kinda get into an autopilot groove with the requests. And sometimes, you just want the kiddo to STFU, and that's the quickest way. (I admit, I sometimes miss it JUST FOR THAT.)

I stopped nursing both kids at 12 months, but I can easily see how it could last until 4, night time nursing especially. Frankly I don't see much difference between nursing and other forms of snuggles, just in my case my body really wasn't up for making milk any more, and I wasn't up for the suckling if all they were getting was air.

I'm not losing my mind and am supposed to have pores.

Whereas I feel like the unretouched photos are a useful reminder that we all have pores and uneven skin tone and it doesn't mean we're ugly. We just aren't photoshopped.

I do find the perfection of kids' skin just a wonder.

I haven't yet read the breastfeeding thread on Feministe. I was getting too frustrated already with the kids on airplanes one from a few days ago. There were at least a few people there claiming that the sound of a crying baby is loud enough to cause hearing damage, and therefore it's not right for babies to be allowed on planes, since they'll cry and thus injure the other passengers.

The guy I'm talking to on the phone mentions he was a pro baseball player and that he played in the World Series his rookie year back in the '80s. So I do a casual Google search, and he's got a baseball card and everything--and all the articles say he was a terrible player. I feel kind of bad for him, but of course I'm not going to say I just Googled him.

So I do a casual Google search, and he's got a baseball card any everything--and all the articles say he was a terrible player. I feel kind of bad for him, but of course I'm not going to say I just Googled him.

Well, a terrible player in the major leagues is still incredibly good compared to 99.9% of the population.

True enough. And in the World Series in your rookie year is still wonderful.

Though I asked, and his team lost.

On the plus side, he wasn't lying ... jeepers, that's really setting the bar low, isn't it?

Even the kids on planes comments took a detour into "breastfeeding is exactly like changing a diaper and you shouldn't do either in an airplane seat because ew" mode! I can't escape!

Man, I made an old guy's day at lunch. Or, at least, his hour. I was looking for hardware for my parents' network, and I was pointing stuff out, and he said "No, maybe you should get this...". I asked why, and he said it was because of the settings I'd need to disable. I said "Oh, I was going to flash it with dd-wrt and override it that way."

He about had kittens. Happy kittens. He paused, looked at me flatly, and then beamed. "I didn't expect to hear those words. Oh, you'll be fine with these. You'll be just fine..."

And he went on and on, and made his (much younger) associate go get me boxes that hadn't been opened, and stuff. So pleased. It was adorbs. I'm glad I got to make him happy, even if it was just five minutes.

Allyson, David Simon's company(The Wire likes carrots) is Blown Deadline, Inc. it's all in the game.