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Dealing With Divorce
How the Legal System Impacts Breastfeeding By Jenn Director Knudsen
Most states have guidelines that recommend against overnight stays for children younger than 18 months, and some don't support overnights until the age of 2. Regardless of how or what they're being fed by that age, kids that young have a very hard time sleeping in an unfamiliar place.
In cases where mothers are granted full custody, dads can't be kept from their babies and young children just because their ex-wife is nursing. "We are not opposed to visitation; we want the father to be involved," says Lofton.
Besides, a breastfed baby kept for extended periods away from his mother often is an unhappy baby, she says. If the mother is pumping, there's always the risk the baby won't take the bottle. And many kinds of formula frequently don't agree with babies' immature digestive systems. And a father left to his
