Once feeding up to 20 times a day, Bridger said, Chase decreased his time on her breasts to just once or twice a day, including one feeding just before bedtime. “Some kids have blankets and dummies and mine just feed.” “It has been a long, long time feeding the 7-year-old,” she acknowledged. With the boy unable to swallow melatonin, breastfeeding became a “great tool” to limit Chase’s meltdowns, she said. “It calms and grounds him and is a fantastic way to reconnect, too.” “Breastfeeding has prevented him having to go on to medication because it calms him down,” Bridger told the website in June regarding Chase.
Lisa Bridger, a 46-year-old woman from Adelaide, shared her experience of “extended feeding” with her sons - 7-year-old Chase and 4-year-old Phoenix - last summer with Kidspot, a popular parenting website visited by more than 1 million Aussies per month.īridger, who said she had breastfed for more than 20 years, billed herself as a knowledgeable mommy veteran and someone who knew that the practice was helping her sons, both of whom have been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders.
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