# Were you nursed?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 15, 2014, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804 "2014-03-15T23:56:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2014, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804/1 "2014-03-15T23:56:50Z")
and does it gross you out to know about it?
When my son found out I had nursed him, well the look of on his face said it all.
I wasn’t nursed, I was a bottle fed baby. My mother was of that generation who thought nursing was something only poor, ignorant women do. So I can’t relate to it.
I didn’t think it was gross when I was doing it. Maybe my son just grosses out more easily than other people?
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### Author:  [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2014, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804/2 "2014-03-16T00:02:12Z")
How old is your son? Perhaps it is something kids or young teens think. Although I don’t think I even focused on it when I was younger.
I know I was nursed. I don’t think about it. I was a baby, and I was hungry.
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### Author:  [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2014, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804/3 "2014-03-16T00:08:17Z")
My mother didn’t breastfeed me or my brother.
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### Author:  [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2014, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804/4 "2014-03-16T00:09:45Z")
At least three generations of breastfed babies in my family. No, nobody thought it was in any way odd, just the way things are done.
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### Author:  [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2014, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804/5 "2014-03-16T00:38:57Z")
my mother tried with the three oldest, but had to give up with all of us for various reasons (this was late 60s-early70s). With younger brother she didn’t try (early 80s).
ETA: no, it doesn’t gross me out. I don’t know why it should.
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### Author:  [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2014, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804/6 "2014-03-16T00:40:26Z")
I was, and no, I never thought it was gross. I could maybe see thinking it was gross in hindsight if you were nursed at an age where you could remember the experience, but not just hearing about it.
Does he realize he also came out of your vagina? (I mean…probably.)
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### Author:  [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2014, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804/7 "2014-03-16T02:07:34Z")
Nope, adopted @ 4 days old.
Yes breast feeding is perfectly natural, and it stills quicks me out a bit. No, I don’t have kids.
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### Author:  [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2014, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804/8 "2014-03-16T02:19:51Z")
Nope, adopted. I know my younger siblings were, dunno about older brothers.
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### Author:  [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2014, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804/9 "2014-03-16T02:23:22Z")
I was nursed and always knew that fact from my earliest memories. I nursed my two children (one girl, then one boy) and they have always been aware of that fact. AFAIK, no one has been grossed out by it. My mother nursed when it was unpopular, I caught the time when it was resurgent (1980’s) Both my daughter in law and my daughter nursed their babies and no one turned a hair.
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### Author:  [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2014, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804/10 "2014-03-16T03:31:03Z")
I was briefly, but it was a disaster so I was switched to the bottle. It doesn’t bother me either. Like another poster said, I was a hungry baby.
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### Author:  [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runs_With_Scissors)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2014, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804/11 "2014-03-16T04:06:55Z")
I was adopted, and between that and it being 1969, there was no way I was nursed.
I wish I had been. I believe it has some major benefits.
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### Author:  [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2014, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804/12 "2014-03-16T04:12:31Z")
I’ve always wondered, but have never found the right opportunity to ask my mother, who is extremely squeamish about anything personal or even vaguely sex-related. I have a feeling that she might have had the same attitude as the OPs mother, thinking that breastfeeding was for the poor and ignorant.
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### Author:  [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2014, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804/13 "2014-03-16T05:20:20Z")
I don’t know whether I was nursed. My mother has never mentioned it and it has never occurred to me to ask.
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2014, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804/14 "2014-03-16T05:29:12Z")
Nope. Neither me nor my brother, in the late 70s.
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### Author:  [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2014, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804/15 "2014-03-16T06:33:33Z")
I believe I was both breast and bottle fed. I don’t remember it, but I think my mother mentioned it once when telling baby stories.
I do remember clearly that my brother got both boob and bottle. And no, seeing my little bro suckling was never gross. A bit unsettled about mother’s naked boob hanging out; I was eleven at the time. But never thought it was gross.
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### Author:  [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2014, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804/16 "2014-03-16T07:59:37Z")
Nursing is the norm in my family.
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### Author:  [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2014, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804/17 "2014-03-16T08:27:42Z")
'50s baby here and I was breastfed. I’ve never really thought about it. It just was.
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### Author:  [@sentrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sentrix)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2014, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804/18 "2014-03-16T08:31:07Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#):
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> I was briefly, but it was a disaster so I was switched to the bottle. It doesn’t bother me either. Like another poster said, I was a hungry baby.
Same.
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2014, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804/19 "2014-03-16T11:20:31Z")
My mom breastfed all 5 of us - not simultaneously, of course - she birthed us variously from 1954 till 1965. My youngest sister was born when I was 11, and I remember my mother showing me how the milk came out of her nipple. I never considered it a big deal at all.
I had a coworker who was positively grossed out at the thought of breast feeding. My totally uninformed opinion is that she was sexualizing it. She never had any children, and I think that might have been part of it. I guess if you can’t deal with your own basic biology, maybe you shouldn’t reproduce…
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### Author:  [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2014, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804/20 "2014-03-16T11:52:55Z")
I have no idea. I also have no idea why it would matter to anyone.
Do modern people discuss stuff like this. Things that they have no memory of. Why not discuss how your toilet training went?
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