# Were you nursed? **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804/61 "2014-03-18T01:46:28Z")
I had a friend who nursed all of her children until they got teeth. Once they started biting that was it for her. ---
**Author:** ![Polyester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b2d939/32.png) [@Polyester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polyester)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804/62 "2020-03-03T02:44:13Z")
Though I am late to the conversation (older thread topic), I’m a 60’s baby, and was bottle-fed from day one, as were my younger siblings. In my moms words, she had no interest in breastfeeding any of us. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804/63 "2020-03-03T18:10:31Z")
My mom nursed all of us, though she reports that she gave me a bottle one time pretty early, and thereafter I refused to take the breast because the bottle was less work and I am, quite literally, a born lazy-ass. (She didn’t use that term, but the was reportedly quite pissed at me at the time.) ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804/64 "2020-03-03T21:50:47Z")
I was breastfed, it never bothered me to know that. I’ve even seen pictures. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804/65 "2020-03-03T22:33:44Z")
> [@Dorjan](#): > > I was breastfed, it never bothered me to know that. I’ve even seen pictures. Same here. It’s never even occurred to me to feel odd about it. I vaguely remember being six years old when my brother was born and my mom breastfeeding him and showing me how the process worked. That said, I grew up in the 80s, and it seemed like breastfeeding was pretty common/standard in my circle (and still is.) ---
**Author:** ![Kovitlac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/2bfe46/32.png) [@Kovitlac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kovitlac)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804/66 "2020-03-03T22:58:36Z")
A bit, but I know my brother and I both took formula. Absolutely nothing wrong with it of course, but if I ever have a kid (not planning on it, but if I do) I know I won’t breastfeed. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804/67 "2020-03-03T23:47:32Z")
pretty sure I was bottle baby but my 2 sons were nursed ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2020, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804/68 "2020-03-04T15:20:10Z")
I have no idea. I was born in 1956, FWIW, so I don’t know if it was common or unheard of. It doesn’t gross me out. I have kind of gotten over the idea of my parents having sex, too. Regards, Shodan - Not the Product of a Virgin Birth ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2020, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804/69 "2020-03-04T15:39:34Z")
I was never breastfed, but both my kids were (my son for 6-8 months and my daughter for 14 months). My mom, like others, raised me during that time when breastfeeding was considered unhealthy and gross. My kids think boobs in general are kind of icky, so even though I think they know I breastfed them, they prefer not to think about it. They’re both either in the thick of puberty or just starting, so I don’t feel like that’s unexpected. ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2020, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804/70 "2020-03-04T16:01:54Z")
I wasn’t. I almost killed my mom. She was really sick and jaundiced before my birth. They were thinking hepatitis at the time but she never tested positive for it. The later theory is that I was just so big that I was pressing on her liver. I spent the first couple days of my life in an isolation nursery. I went from there to six weeks with my grandparents while mom recovered. The first couple weeks after my birth mom was still in the hospital. She was barely in shape to take care of me when I went finally home without the added physical stress of breast feeding. On the plus side, I got a private nursery and shared summer custody with my “other parents” at their lakefront retirement cabin. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2020, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804/71 "2020-03-05T04:04:12Z")
I was not. My mother breastfed the two oldest. C-sections were even rougher in those days, and she couldn’t breastfeed us younger two. When I was a kid, I was relieved, as I thought it was embarrassing. I had two kids of my own and breastfed the first for a year and the second until she quit at six months. Breast is best, but thank heavens, there’s no shame in not breastfeeding…or shouldn’t be. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2020, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804/72 "2020-03-05T10:10:00Z")
I was breastfed as a baby and it doesn’t bother me at all, why would it, it’s not like I remember. My Dad loves to make cheesy jokes about it if the topic ever comes up for some reason. Basically saying that I didn’t want to stop. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804/73 "2020-03-06T03:28:06Z")
My little sister was almost weaned when we left the USA. She went back on the breast because (a) it was more convenient, and (b) to demonstrate to people that rich white people don’t all just bottle-feed their babies. Mother’s a doctor, us older kids had bottle feeding and she went back to work, but this was the time when Nestle was killing babies in third world countries. So I remember my little sister being breast fed – and seeing a lot of other people doing it too. My own kid stayed on the breast until he was 4+. I thought it a little odd, but not something that I would make an issue of. PS: “nursing” is t he way you hold a baby while it is feeding. You can “nurse” bottle fed babies or old people. But a “nursing mother” is one that is still breast feeding. One SDMB, separated by a common language. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804/74 "2020-03-06T04:11:18Z")
My mother did not breastfeed either of her children. I breastfed both of mine. My daughter nursed for about eight months. My son had recurring ear infections, and he weaned himself at about four months. Mr VOW said, “Oh, he’s gonna be a leg man.” ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804/75 "2020-03-06T15:12:33Z")
Every time I see this thread, in my mind I hear it being asked by Hannibal Lecter. _“Were you nurse, Clarice?”_ ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804/76 "2020-03-06T16:06:31Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Every time I see this thread, in my mind I hear it being asked by Hannibal Lecter. > > _“Were you nurse, Clarice?”_ You misremembered he didn’t say that to Clarice. It was when Hannibal was talking to the senator: “Tell me Senator, did you nurse Catherine yourself?” ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804/77 "2020-03-06T17:53:38Z")
Nursing sucks. ---
**Author:** ![EscAlaMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/escalamike/32/4177_2.png) [@EscAlaMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EscAlaMike)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804/78 "2020-03-06T18:48:03Z")
Yes, I was nursed. No, it doesn’t gross me out, anymore than any other perfectly natural act does. My wife has breastfed all of our children and I think it’s a wonderful and amazing thing. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804/79 "2020-03-06T20:26:53Z")
I grew up knowing I’d been nursed. Never found anything gross about it. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804/80 "2020-03-06T20:29:50Z")
I grew up knowing I’d been nursed. Never found anything gross about it. ETA: on the other hand, I never developed the erotic fixation on women’s breastworks that seems typical of hetero guys; maybe growing up aware of having been nursed gave me a different attitude towards the bodyparts involved? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-nursed/683804.md?page=5)