Breastfeeding is not disgusting.

The BBQ Pit
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Add me to the breastfed discreetly bunch. It is entirely possible to feed your baby without making it a peep show.

Then again I’ve seen women who somehow manage to impart a sense of vulgarity to this beautiful process. You’ve all seen her too-- Walking through the grocery store carrying the babe on her hip, braless, entire breast visible and if you even so much as glance in her direction she will shriek “what the hell are you looking at? This is a natural thing” (so is having a bowel movement lady)

I’m not suggesting she go sit in the restroom. (I once saw a “breastfeeding area”- that was nothing more than a folding chair set up in a handicapped size stall, right next to the commode–yeah right) I am just saying that all it takes is a minimum of modesty.

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Breastfeeding is INDEED evil and disgusting…I speak from experience here!

  1. Kid latches on, sucks madly, then somewhat satiated decides it’s time to play so…pulls back (nipple in mouth), gives mum the demonic grin, and THWACK…lets play elastic titties!

  2. Kid latches on, sucks TOO madly, gets overfilled on milk and (giving mum the demonic grin), throws up the surplus all over her lap, her new jumper and the couch.

  3. Kids slurp and make disgusting noises (while grinning demonically). Then they bite you, sharply, while grinning…

  4. The ‘feed bags’ end up looking like sunken paps…with lines like a topographic map.
    Argghhh, yes, the joys of breastfeeding.
    But I wouldn’t have had it any other way. There is nothing more intimately satisfying than the smell, sound and feel of a babe who is similarly satisfied by your offerings…milky and otherwise!

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My son’s almost 8 months old now, and we’re still breastfeeding. I pump at work so he’ll have breastmilk in daycare. People who think it’s disgusting really need to get a clue. I mean, even the ultra-radical :rolleyes: American Academy of Pediatrics recomends breastfeeding for at least on year. I love watching my baby nurse. He’s beautiful from that angle (okay, any angle, really).

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Bottle Baby checking in…

I think Drastic may be onto something, about the “double whammy” and the hang-ups and all. You’d think, though, that after… how many millions of years of births, deaths, and all-that-comes-in-between, that people would be coming to grips with both how babies are made, and how they’re (generally) fed.

When my sister was pregnant with twins (and about to bust 'em on out), my mom was preparing to visit her, to help with the babies after they were born. I wanted to send my sister a gift, and so wondered aloud if she were planning to breastfeed (because if not, I was going to send her some of her favorite coffee, which she’d sorely missed during her pregnancy).

“Well, I hope she’s not planning on breastfeeding!” gasped my mother.

Granted, some of this had to do with the fact that, for weird medical reasons, my mother was told by her doctor not to breastfeed us. She was quite pleased about this, because she didn’t want to breastfeed, but was locking horns with her own mother (who insisted that yes, she would be breastfeeding) over the issue, and the doc’s declaration won the day for my mother. At any rate, she called my sister immediately to speak to her about the issue, and her reasons for why my sister shouldn’t try to breastfeed were:

a) the medical issues that affected my mother’s ability to breasfeed might affect my sister, too, so she shouldn’t chance it (even though my sister’s doc had given her the green light)

b) she’d never have enough milk for twins, and

c) bottle feeding was a more sensible practice anyway, because that way the babies would be accustomed to the bottle and would be able to eat anytime, anywhere, whether my sister (and her boobs) were around or not.

It ended up in a big argument (my mother won in the end, because my sister did not, in fact, end up having enough milk; I think stress might have contributed to this dilemma, don’t you?)

Boy was I sorry I opened THAT can-O-worms. :rolleyes:

I think it might be somewhat of a generational thing; my mother said that very few of her friends breastfed their children (because they did not want to), whereas my grandmother’s generation believed heartily in breastfeeding. Surely we’re not swinging the other direction now…?

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Wouldn’t breast feeding be disgusting if the children were say over the age of 3 or 4?

Don’t ask–trust me.

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Depends on the society. In some areas of the world, children are breastfed until they’re five or six. Mainly because there’s not always enough “grownup” food around for everyone. In those cases, I don’t think it’s viewed as disgusting.

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When I gave birth to my daughter there was another woman in the room with me. Once, the woman’s family was in visiting her. They asked if I was bottle feeding, and I said no, breastfeeding. You would have thought I had asked them to sit down to a nice meal of juicy squirming maggots. Grandma said, “No, never,” and Mom declared proudly, “I fed you kids on Pep milk and Karo syrup.” I kept the curtain around my bed shut after that.

Actually, I had to bottle feed my son after he was born for a time because my appendix burst and I was on some killer antibiotics. I did go back to nursing him, but sterilyzing the bottle and nipple and buying the expensive formula and mixing it and making sure it was the right temperature was a pain. Much easier to pull the bra flap down and pop the baby on

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My aunt told me the very same thing when I was pregnant. Having a baby sucking on your tit was disgusting.

I told her that tits were made for babies to suck on and that she was gross and disgusting for letting a grown man suck on what nature intended to be food for babies.

So, after my twins were born, every time I saw her and her husband together I’d say “Ewww! Gross! You let that hairy-assed man suck on your titties!”

People are strange and so I like to go with the flow.

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BAHAHAHAHA!

Now there’s a great reply to the “starers and glarers”! Bravo!

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I am currently preggers (YAY Three Months by the end of the week) and intend to breastfeed until 6 months - 1 year.

I do not think breastfeeding is disgusting, I think it is natural and, as long as the mom is discreet can happen anywhere (I have seen moms so good you don’t even realize until you hear the little slurpy sounds).

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GrizzWife decided that, no matter what, she was going to breastfeed our twins because that was best for them! I support that wholeheartedly.
-No matter that she was bedridden with an incompetent cervix in week #20 of the pregnancy.
-No matter that she was hospitalized in week #28 of the pregnancy.
-No matter that the babies were born nine weeks early and didn’t have that suck/swallow/breathe rhythym down.
-No matter about the stress suffered when our daughter only survived three days.
-No matter that she had to start by using a pump and didn’t actually breastfeed our son for several weeks after he was born.
-No matter that our son spent his first six weeks in hospital.
-No matter that she suffered painful blockages every few weeks.
She’s breastfed in public. On an airplane. In highway rest-stop restuarants. At our friends homes. In more public places than I can count. Discretely, yes… but mom shouldn’t have to be ashamed about feeding her children.
No one has suggested to her (or me) that perhaps she should take the breastfeeding elsewhere, or even that she shouldn’t do it. And God help the first person to do so. She’ll surely give them an earful about the benefits of breastfeeding.

Now, at 21months, our son is no longer a preemie, but bigger and stronger than most children his same age. I believe that our good parenting has something to do with that. But, moreso, I credit my wife with the majority of it. She resolved to do what’s best for our son. Period. For that, she deserves all of the praise and credit that I can muster.

For those that think otherwise (:wally ) well, that’s their opinion.

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Hrrm let me add some context.

1983- Southern California.

Children 4 and 5 and a half years of age.

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Lynn Bodoni states truly that this would be a better world if more fathers were daddies to their children.

Further improvements could be implemented if more people were to mind their own business.

You feeding your children is none of my business.

I have encountered both those who express horror at the primeval grossness of actually feeding a child with - well, those - and the Boob Nazis eager to browbeat every woman into submission on the topic of breastfeeding.

One of them was abusive towards the Lovely and Talented Mrs. Shodan for not breast feeding Shodan Jr.

Both my kids are adopted. :rolleyes:

Regards,
Shodan

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That woman is probably also upset that she has to take a shit once in a while.

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I remember seeing a story in the news a while back; a woman was (very discreetly) feeding her baby in the Brighton Lanes, the keeper of a nearby shop ran out and threw a bucket of cold water over them in a fit of rage, what a wanker.

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Ok, I give up. How do you indiscreetly breastfeed? I guess you could hold the baby up in front of you and jiggle, but I doubt that the child would eat through that.

I’m not picking on anyone (I hope this doesn’t come across as if I am), and I am sorry if I’m being too explicit, but most of the mothers I know breastfed at one time or another, and I never had any reason to pay attention to it. We would just be talking and I would notice that a baby was at their breast. How could it be a big deal?

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WHOA!! HOLD ON A MINUTE HERE!!

A *third * head? Like the second one didn’t freak them out?

not-so-related-hijack: The chick on the Mike’s Hard Iced Tea commercial is secretly WAAAAY turned-on by the “2nd Evil Head” growing out of her co-workers neck, cause she knows it will go down at high red-tide and a misty brown-eye wouldn’t slow it down any!

But I digress…

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I’m planning to breastfeed my son once I have him in a few weeks.

All I know is, my kid’s gotta eat. I can either feed him when he’s hungry by throwing a blanket over him and my chest and feeding him, or I can wait until he’s good and hungry and crying and look for a “private” place amid the disapproving stares of people wondering who the crying baby is. Hmm, let’s see…

Robin

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Not every kid who’s bottle fed is just put in a crib with a bottle. If that’s what you’re implying, it’s unfair to mothers who bottle-fed while holding their kid.

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My mother breast fed me the first month, then bottlefed me. She said she just had a lot of trouble, and watching what she ate was hard, because my mom tends to have a very sensitive digestive tract.

She also bottlefed my sister.

Neither one of us were plopped into a crib with a bottle. My mother thinks it’s dangerous, anyways. Or at least, just not GOOD for a baby.