If a child returns to nursing, then goes to play, then resumes nursing a second time, is that counted as one nursing session?
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The questioner :
If a child returns to nursing, then goes to play, then resumes nursing a second time, of course, there is nothing wrong with that.
It is established that this child did not get his fill from the nursing... So if he does not nurse this session, he will not stand up unless he stops or
he is officially full, then he goes directly to play. So if we attribute to these stages that the child left, that they are
not, or all of them, to be counted as a nursing session, then there is a point of difficulty here.
The Shaykh :
I do not know, perhaps something came to your mind that I did not say, or I said it and did not notice. I just heard you say now
that he goes and plays. I did not say he goes and plays; rather, he is on his mother's breast and plays. So if the matter differs
with you, I must clarify the difference for you. I mean he is on his mother's breast... So if there is a difference in your understanding
and your opinion and your independent legal reasoning between the play I intended and the play you intended, then the difficulty
in your mind is resolved. But if you mean that even while he is on his mother's breast, if he nurses a little and leaves a little and starts to fiddle
and play with his mother's breast itself, for example, or her clothes, and so on, then we say this is a complete nursing session. This is what I believe no
scholar says. Do you mean by the play you mentioned what I did not intend?
The questioner :
I intend that children in this state differ from one another. For example, there is a type of child who is on
his mother's breast, gets full in the present, then resumes later. This type is strange among children, and it is not possible
to discover the secret of this child.
The Shaykh :
How do you mean? Do you imagine that the child nurses once, holds for a minute, nurses a second time, holds for a minute
and two minutes, and finishes nursing like that all day long?
The questioner :
Yes, exactly.
The Shaykh :
I do not know this and do not imagine it, but in any case, this is not a matter for the fathers; rather, they must verify whether this is one nursing session or multiple nursing sessions.
The questioner :
But if there is a difference in the duration, does the duration make a difference?
The Shaykh :
It is well known that a boy nurses a filling nursing session... Perhaps some of our brothers there who know the issue
It is well known that a boy, when he is first born, the duration of nursing is close between one nursing session and the next, and as he grows
the interval widens. So if we suppose, for example, that the boy in his nursing nurses every three hours, when he nurses
the first nursing session, he does not nurse it all at once, but in intermittent intervals, nursing until he is satisfied, meaning
like an adult who eats and eats; even if he is a big eater, he has a limit. So after he eats the usual amount or
two or three hours, he returns to the second meal. So this is measured by nursing as well, but it is necessary to ask the people
of knowledge and specialization in that. So whoever has the qualification in that, let him please explain it to us.
If a child returns to nursing, then goes to play, then resumes nursing a second time, of course, there is nothing wrong with that.
It is established that this child did not get his fill from the nursing... So if he does not nurse this session, he will not stand up unless he stops or
he is officially full, then he goes directly to play. So if we attribute to these stages that the child left, that they are
not, or all of them, to be counted as a nursing session, then there is a point of difficulty here.
The Shaykh :
I do not know, perhaps something came to your mind that I did not say, or I said it and did not notice. I just heard you say now
that he goes and plays. I did not say he goes and plays; rather, he is on his mother's breast and plays. So if the matter differs
with you, I must clarify the difference for you. I mean he is on his mother's breast... So if there is a difference in your understanding
and your opinion and your independent legal reasoning between the play I intended and the play you intended, then the difficulty
in your mind is resolved. But if you mean that even while he is on his mother's breast, if he nurses a little and leaves a little and starts to fiddle
and play with his mother's breast itself, for example, or her clothes, and so on, then we say this is a complete nursing session. This is what I believe no
scholar says. Do you mean by the play you mentioned what I did not intend?
The questioner :
I intend that children in this state differ from one another. For example, there is a type of child who is on
his mother's breast, gets full in the present, then resumes later. This type is strange among children, and it is not possible
to discover the secret of this child.
The Shaykh :
How do you mean? Do you imagine that the child nurses once, holds for a minute, nurses a second time, holds for a minute
and two minutes, and finishes nursing like that all day long?
The questioner :
Yes, exactly.
The Shaykh :
I do not know this and do not imagine it, but in any case, this is not a matter for the fathers; rather, they must verify whether this is one nursing session or multiple nursing sessions.
The questioner :
But if there is a difference in the duration, does the duration make a difference?
The Shaykh :
It is well known that a boy nurses a filling nursing session... Perhaps some of our brothers there who know the issue
It is well known that a boy, when he is first born, the duration of nursing is close between one nursing session and the next, and as he grows
the interval widens. So if we suppose, for example, that the boy in his nursing nurses every three hours, when he nurses
the first nursing session, he does not nurse it all at once, but in intermittent intervals, nursing until he is satisfied, meaning
like an adult who eats and eats; even if he is a big eater, he has a limit. So after he eats the usual amount or
two or three hours, he returns to the second meal. So this is measured by nursing as well, but it is necessary to ask the people
of knowledge and specialization in that. So whoever has the qualification in that, let him please explain it to us.
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