Deborah Harrell wrote:
>
> --- Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I think that someone did a study of various primates
> > and determined that
> > based on a number of factors, the appropriate age of
> > weaning for humans is around 5 years old.
> <snip>
>
> Ouch! I think that teeth erupting would probably be
> my cutoff... ;)
I stuck it out. He'd learned *very* early on not to bite (before he had
any teeth) and managed to stick with not biting until around 17 1/2
months, and then we'd have little incidents where I warned him that the
next bite would terminate the feeding, and he was usually good about it
after that. (He started biting me around 2 weeks, and demonstrated an
ability to learn: he'd bite, I'd say, "ouch", and pry him off the
nipple for a minute or so. After a day or two, he'd let go just at the
"ouch". Then he figured out how not to elicit the "ouch" in the first
place, and we were in good shape for quite awhile.)
Getting bit once during the 1 feeding a day near the end isn't so bad,
unless it's hard.
Julia
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