It's funny that your friends freaked out about an innocent breastfeeding photo, considering that my mom was happy to share her full-crotch childbirth photos with my high-school friends (male and female). Some of them are still traumatized by that overshare, but no one ever said that it was wrong or that they were…
One of my favorite pictures of me as a baby is one where my mother is breastfeeding me. It looks very sweet and intimate, you can barely see her boob because of my big round baby face and her hair, and I'm looking up at her with bright happy eyes like "thank you for feeding me, lovely woman!". It makes me laugh…
Uggh that is NOT what I am trying to get across. My situation was NOT worse than the authors by any means, all I'm saying is that I acknowledge that breastfeeding can be shitty and awful for the mother. I would never try to argue against that because I know *to an extent* how it occurs. But that doesn't mean we should…
I literally said, in all caps "THAT IS FINE. SERIOUSLY IT IS OK. YOUR BABY WILL BE FINE." Obviously this is an issue very close to my heart and I am a little emotionally wound very tightly about it.
Uh, what? That isn't true in the slightest. To look at one feature; formula does not contain living anti-bodies and breastmilk does.
I think it has a lot to do with that fact. I also think that puritanical attitudes toward breasts have something to do with it as well. Australia has high breastfeeding rate, if I am not mistaken. France and Germany do not. I'm in the UK and I get 4 months full pay mat leave then state mat leave for the next 5…
It's not as common as some medical professions make out. It's interesting that in countries such as Sweden, where formula is strictly rationed, you don't have the same issues as they do in countries such the USA and UK where breastfeeding rates are low. The best way to produce milk is to feed more often. The growth…
Breastfeeding past six months IS more natural and healthy than giving a baby formula or other animal milks. Science, how does it work? If it's your choice not to do that then THAT IS FINE. SERIOUSLY IT IS OK. YOUR BABY WILL BE FINE. But that doesn't mean you get to disregard the facts. And society at large is not…
I had a lot of pressure from my in-laws not to breastfeed. Tons. Stuff like you'll never be able to leave him (the baby was 10 days old when my SIL said it,) their horror stories about breastfeeding (none of that ever happened to me), that my milk wouldn't be enough... that sort of thing. Oh and being put in a room on…
What in the actual fuck? Sorry you seem to have some kind of personal vendetta against breastfeeding mothers but this is just gross.
#2 so much. I mean, even if we knew the actual breastfeeding habits of Neanderthals, it'd be insane to try to draw conclusions about how modern humans should act from that information. But we don't know the actual breastfeeding habits of Neanderthals. What we know is that there once existed a Neanderthal child who…
1) I really do like the fact that Jez posts up-close-and-personal pics of nursing infants. Well played, ladies.
I'm sensing a bit of projection here. Nowhere did I indicate that I blaming my childhood for anything. What I said was that at 16 years old, I didn't really love being a caretaker to a child I didn't choose to have. I did it anyway, because that's what you do, but I am, actually, allowed to have complaints about my…
As the youngest of 7 (yes, seven); sucks to be you!
I'm the oldest of 3 and the only girl. There's also a 4.5 year gap between me and my middle brother. My mom was a single mom and while I appreciate how challenging that can be (I'm a single mom, too), I did more parenting than she did. She was completely overwhelmed and she copes by checking out. Unfortunately…
I'm sure that can happen — I wish it had for me. Unfortunately, I think my parents just weren't aware, really, of how much I was doing. I suspect that's the case for many of the other people in the thread as well.
Cosigned. As I mentioned on another thread, this is the reason I don't have any kids. I already raised mine up. Now I have nieces and a nephews I can play with and hand back.
Exactly! I mean, people have done this exact thing for ever, and many cultures just hand their babies to their 4 yr old siblings and make them watch them, but I think that since I grew up in a culture that doesn't necessarily require marriage/children for success I was allowed to feel bitterness over how hard babies…
My littlest sibling is 12 yrs younger than me. I never had that sweet, protective relationship with him though because 1. he was the most spoiled, aggressive baby ever. Once he possessed the faculty he would attack, kick and bite. He got kicked out of preschool for it. My mom really babied him though so no one was…