Coco Austin defends the decision to let the 5 year old daughter breastfeeding
"It's a great moment of collage for a mother and child."
This proud mother is standing for a controversial parental practice. During an interview withUS Weekly,Coco Austin defended breastfeeding his five-year-old child the girl. Austin Action GirlChanel With her 19-year-old husband, actor and rapperICE-T. Continuing to breastfeed his child after an age some people who judge unacceptable is something that Austin is passionate and speaks in the past. Read it to see what she had to say about her decision in this new interview and to hear why breastfeeding means so much to her.
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Austin sees breastfeeding as a liaison experience.
US Weekly INTERVIEW AUSTIN INa video on his parental gifts and not to do. When asked to breastfeed beyond the relief of the "good age" of about two years, she said, "I never understood that. You want to know something? Chanel still loves my boob And she is five years ... it's a great moment of collage for a mother and child. Many people are like: "Oh, you do not get nutrition after two years. Why? 'And I'm like , my child eats steaks and burgers, she just likes a little snack from time to time and more of the liaison between the mother. Why remove it? "
Austin also noted that breastfeeding helps Chanel Sleeping: "It's not like she'll take a meal, but she gets her little snack and she soothing him to sleep." Chanel even talked about it herself in the video. "You know what?" she said, arriving suddenly on her mother's knees. "Boo Boo makes me sleep."
She does not care about which society thinks.
Austin pointed out that if she lived outside society, she would always want to feed her child. It therefore prevents this mentality and does not change its behavior according to what others think. "I do not want to deprive her of something she wants just because the company says she has to stop after two years," said Austin.
She also said that the United States is not the same as everywhere else. "Europeans, they stop around seven," the oldIce loves coconut Star said. "They are going so much when the child does not feel the need to do it, and that's how I feel."
Breastfeeding rates in Europe differ considerably from country to country. For example,Ireland has a particularly low percentage Babies who are still lit, while Sweden is particularly high, according to a 2018 UNICEF report.
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Austin says other moms have supported it.
Austin posted on breastfeeding on Instagram several times. In 2020, she sharedA photo of Chanel Breastfeeding and wrote: "I received a lot of accessories in the nursing community and get tons of women's e-mails / moms that told me the light about." She added: "At this time breastfeeding, it's just for comfort and believe that the girl loves meat so it's not like she did not eat real food ... thank you to all this which includes my view. "
As indicated byUS Weekly, Austin tooresponded to a commentator Who asked what would happen if Chanel always wanted to breastfeed at the age of 12. "I think it stops before," she wrote. "Europeans Ween about 7."
ICE-T also weighed on the subject.
When Austin spoke toUS Weekly About breastfeeding in an interview in 2019,Her husband also shared his thoughts on the subject. "What I think confounds that people are that they [see pictures] and they think Chanel does not eat food",Law & Order: Svu Star said. "And she eats cheeseburgers. She feeds only ... like, when she cries [and] she just wants to get closer to her mom. She throws the boob out and ... she does not do it to feed. Chick eats. Chile fries, okay? "
Coco talked about other very debate parental subjects.
In the video, Austin emphasizes that it and Ice-T are not "a traditional married couple". So, when it comes to things like Chiel bedroom or where she sleeps, all parents will not agree with their choices. Because Austin and Ice-T are part of the "Night Entertainment World", Chanel is sometimes late with them and sleeps until 11:00 "Of course, it will change this year because it will start school," said Austin, what Chanel replied: "I always wanted to go to school!"
Austin also shared that Chanel is sleeping frequently in her and her bed of her husband. "We call our bed our family bed," she said. "We have Chanel and all four dogs."
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