# Recent Mom, wearing a sheer top. How does she prevent accidents? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 15, 2014, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-mom-wearing-a-sheer-top-how-does-she-prevent-accidents/690806 "2014-06-15T04:03:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-mom-wearing-a-sheer-top-how-does-she-prevent-accidents/690806/41 "2014-06-16T03:03:31Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > That’s true. Anyway. It’s her loss. Some of my fondest memories are of the times when my wife was feeding our daughters. It’s an incredible and special time with a baby. I wouldn’t trade those memories of us together for all the money or fame in the world. 😕 Some of my fondest memories are feeding my son with a bottle. I don’t get why having an actual boob involved makes it so much more special. And I say this as a man who is quite fond of boobies. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-mom-wearing-a-sheer-top-how-does-she-prevent-accidents/690806/42 "2014-06-16T03:07:21Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > My wife and I are both puzzled how she’s pulling off this sheer top a few months after having a baby? My wife wore absorbent pads for at least two years after giving birth to our daughters. She breast feed both of them for almost that entire time. Pads are a necessity otherwise leakage happens. I doubt she’s leaking anything other than silicone. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-mom-wearing-a-sheer-top-how-does-she-prevent-accidents/690806/43 "2014-06-16T06:23:43Z")
We’re talking about the same thing. Bonding with our baby. 🙂 it’s that entire experience that I look back on fondly. Taking care of this tiny little bundle my wife and I brought home from the hospital. We’re far enough removed that we’ve forgotten the nights without sleep and our frayed nerves. Most of my memories of that special time are quite positive. My wife choose to breast feed but bottle feeding wouldn’t have changed anything. We still would have bonded with the baby and loved it. I bottle fed both our girls when my wife was gone on errands. She pumped when she needed to go somewhere and also let them suckle at home. > [@Shakes](#): > > 😕 > > Some of my fondest memories are feeding my son with a bottle. I don’t get why having an actual boob involved makes it so much more special. > > And I say this as a man who is quite fond of boobies. ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_From\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-mom-wearing-a-sheer-top-how-does-she-prevent-accidents/690806/44 "2014-06-16T07:53:42Z")
Another possibility is that she’s wearing [Lilypadz](http://www.lilypadz.com/), which are very thin silicon covers. I had a set and they were basically invisible. Work by preventing rather than absorbing. ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-mom-wearing-a-sheer-top-how-does-she-prevent-accidents/690806/45 "2014-06-16T15:55:26Z")
**aceplace57** , has it occurred to you that, just because your wife breastfed for two years, that does not mean EVERYONE breast feeds for two years? Some people breastfeed for 4-6 weeks, some 4-6 months, some 4-6 years. Isn’t it entirely possible that Kim weaned North months ago and so this is not only a nonissue, but that you are trolling to talk about boobs? Because I find it difficult to believe you can not know this. Or that you cannot conceive of the possibility that the baby has been weaned already. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-mom-wearing-a-sheer-top-how-does-she-prevent-accidents/690806/46 "2014-06-16T16:16:09Z")
I’m startled by OP’s belief that using a wet nurse is still a thing. Maybe somewhere in the world, but in the US people who, for whatever reason, do not breast feed, have this thing called “formula.” You buy it at the store. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-mom-wearing-a-sheer-top-how-does-she-prevent-accidents/690806/47 "2014-06-16T16:50:34Z")
> [@Hello\_Again](#): > > I’m startled by OP’s belief that using a wet nurse is still a thing. Maybe somewhere in the world, but in the US people who, for whatever reason, do not breast feed, have this thing called “formula.” You buy it at the store. Easier to judge and poke fun than to become informed, I guess. I just hope now that he’s learned of formula that he doesn’t become one of those busybodies at the store that sees Similac in a woman’s cart and starts to tell her what she is missing out on by not breastfeeding. As it was such a blessing for him. ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-mom-wearing-a-sheer-top-how-does-she-prevent-accidents/690806/48 "2014-06-16T18:45:30Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > I just hope now that he’s learned of formula that he doesn’t become one of those busybodies at the store that sees Similac in a woman’s cart and starts to tell her what she is missing out on by not breastfeeding. As it was such a blessing for him. And such fond memories. Not of breastfeeding and all the work it is or how extremely painful it can be. But, y’know, watching someone doing it instead. That’s why he’s qualified to inform posters-who-have-breastfed about what breastfeeding’s all about and how it works. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-mom-wearing-a-sheer-top-how-does-she-prevent-accidents/690806/49 "2014-06-16T18:52:46Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Serious question: Do you need to be a mother to produce breast milk? I assume it could be expressed by any woman at any time, no? And pardon my ignorance, but that’s what we’re here for in the first place. Not only do you not have to be a mother, but I read an article at Cracked about there being, honest to god, MEN who manage to produce breast milk. Ew. (Yeah, I know, there’s nothing wrong with it, but it was still a little too out there for me) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Nylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mr.Nylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nylock)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-mom-wearing-a-sheer-top-how-does-she-prevent-accidents/690806/50 "2014-06-16T19:03:39Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Not only do you not have to be a mother, but I read an article at Cracked about there being, honest to god, MEN who manage to produce breast milk. Ew. (Yeah, I know, there’s nothing wrong with it, but it was still a little too out there for me) :eek: Real men don’t make breast milk. ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-mom-wearing-a-sheer-top-how-does-she-prevent-accidents/690806/51 "2014-06-16T19:25:11Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Serious question: Do you need to be a mother to produce breast milk? I assume it could be expressed by any woman at any time, no? And pardon my ignorance, but that’s what we’re here for in the first place. To confirm, in case it isn’t clear from the other posts in this thread, while some women (and men) who have not given birth CAN produce breast milk, it’s definitely an extreme thing. We’re talking about committing to an intentional regimen to stimulate milk production, it’s not something a person would do on a whim. I just don’t want you walking around thinking it’s somewhat common for people who have not recently given birth to do this. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-mom-wearing-a-sheer-top-how-does-she-prevent-accidents/690806.md?page=2)