Breast feeding - A time and a place?

[Silent Bob]

I wouldn't flop my tits out when I wasn't feeding so what makes it right when I am?



So you have floppy tits..........nice......

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that.

 

[Dave the OAP]

And if the baby doesn't take a bottle?

then it will go hungry!!!!


seriously, i have no problem with people breastfeeding at all. rather that than then screaming the placedown

 

[tedebear]

My boy wouldn't take a bottle of boobie milk, he just wanted boobies!

Luckily for me mine was happy with either - rareity though...

 

[Nibble]

Sometimes people get offended for the sake of it. You have to ask yourself the question, are you really offended by it or just see it as an issue to raise? Ok, she may not have needed to feed her baby at that exact moment in time, maybe everyone doesn't need to see her tit, maybe the child should fit into her routine rather than the other way around, maybe she is raising the kid incorrectly - but in all honesty, is it a massive problem for you?

It is just a tit. You can open any random publication and see a tit. In fact, on the way to work you probably encountered many more offensive images on adverts, billboards etc than the bairn hanging off a lone, exposed tit on the train.

We have drug users, dealers, advertising, late trains, body odour, high rail prices, filthy trains, high taxes, low incomes, excessive working hours, etc to contend with in our working day. Does one solitary child being suckled really rank that highly on our offence scale?

 

[tedebear]

Which is fine for me, bottles and all that go with them are a pain in the butt.

I got told they'd be a pain too - but I actually found them pretty easy work in the end, also my mother in law was happy to do the late evening feed with a bottle (I used to do a sleep feed at 10pm ish) so I managed to get out and about every now and then...which was nice...

 

[Race]

Luckily for me mine was happy with either - rareity though...

He refused bottles, not matter how I tried and I could express 7oz before even feeding him! He never had a dummy either. He was OK with a cup though and didnt want boobies after 10 months old anyway (thinks of teeth coming through eeeeek!)!!

 

[Starry]

then it will go hungry!!!!


seriously, i have no problem with people breastfeeding at all. rather that than then screaming the placedown

Cool.

I have a problem with people who think we should plug our babies with bottles instead of bf'ing just to spare their feelers.

Breastfeeding is not something women should be embarrassed or ashamed of. They should be proud and congratulated for it, not shoved off to scummy public toilets to spare the feelers of people who think it's a no no.

 

[tedebear]

He refused bottles, not matter how I tried and I could express 7oz before even feeding him! He never had a dummy either. He was OK with a cup though and didnt want boobies after 10 months old anyway (thinks of teeth coming through eeeeek!)!!

Probably very common to be honest - my hubbies father (now sadly passed) was born with two front teeth - can you imagine that!! iieeeeeeeeee

 

[Moshe Gariani]

I got told they'd be a pain too - but I actually found them pretty easy work in the end... I managed to get out and about every now and then...which was nice...

that has been our experience too... having a lovely time with our five week old and without Mrs G needing to turn into a knackered and stressed out milk machine...

there is so much bollocks talked about breastfeeding its unbelievable... correlational studies prove 78% of f*** all about the so-called benefits...

 

[tedebear]

Cool.

I have a problem with people who think we should plug our babies with bottles instead of bf'ing just to spare their feelers.

Breastfeeding is not something women should be embarrassed or ashamed of. They should be proud and congratulated for it, not shoved off to scummy public toilets to spare the feelers of people who think it's a no no.

I agree with breastfeeding, I do think women should be proud and congratulated for it! But my problem stems from why women are feeling the need to feed in public!

I'd hazard a guess that most of our mothers and definately our grandmothers fed in private. So why the change? Are we more selfish these days and will not be "locked" away at home lactating in private....Do we feel slighted by the "chained to the kitchen sink" stigma...sadly though through all this - its the poor little babies who are dragged here and there and dropped at childminders or nursery, who suffer due to this....not mistreating our kids at all, just pushing them quicker to grow up than maybe we did decades ago...

 

[Nibble]

I was denied the teet as an infant.

 

[Starry]

I got told they'd be a pain too - but I actually found them pretty easy work in the end, also my mother in law was happy to do the late evening feed with a bottle (I used to do a sleep feed at 10pm ish) so I managed to get out and about every now and then...which was nice...

I can't be bothered with sterilising, expressing, freezing, defrosting, boiling a kettle and warming it up. Other things to be doing with my time, I'm lazy, not having to get out of bed at 2am come downstairs to warm a bottle up works for me! I'm lucky I can stay home and feed her when she needs it so we have no need for bottles. That said she has just started walking and being miss independent so I am not sure she'll be after the boobies for much longer

I only used them with Anastasia when she was sick and it was just another hassle to add into our day.

 

[Lush]

I wish breastfeeding generally was more acceptable.

Breastmilk is best for a baby cos it contains loads of good stuff, including infection-fightiing antibodies from mum - and it's FREE!!!!!

However a lot of women do feel self-conscious about it - partly because of reactions they might receive from other people, like some of those posted here.

 

[Starry]

I agree with breastfeeding, I do think women should be proud and congratulated for it! But my problem stems from why women are feeling the need to feed in public!

I'd hazard a guess that most of our mothers and definately our grandmothers fed in private. So why the change? Are we more selfish these days and will not be "locked" away at home lactating in private....Do we feel slighted by the "chained to the kitchen sink" stigma...sadly though through all this - its the poor little babies who are dragged here and there and dropped at childminders or nursery, who suffer due to this....not mistreating our kids at all, just pushing them quicker to grow up than maybe we did decades ago...

I feel the need to feed my baby wherever she is hungry. We don't sit at home all day or make a mad dash home every three/four/five hours to fit in with her schedule. If we are out and about and she is hungry she gets fed, much the same way my older children get a snack at the park if they are hungry.

I don't know why the change. I don't think it;s selfish to be out and about with your baby though. I couldn't imagine much worse than sitting home all day with Romy watching the clock tick by.

I know not everyone is fortunate enough to be able to stay home with their babies and raise a family, I think that is a different thing to nursing in public though. I agree about the pushing them to grow up quickly. It's sad

 

[tedebear]

I know not everyone is fortunate enough to be able to stay home with their babies and raise a family, I think that is a different thing to nursing in public though.

No not everyone is sadly! We're struggling to do it, but I'm glad I am...although having said that sometimes it does get a little tedious not having a professional life.

But I do think that is related to why nursing has become such public property - as women have to be out and about (earning money) things that were once done at home, are now being done in public - thats the link I think....

 

[Shegull]

I agree with breastfeeding, I do think women should be proud and congratulated for it! But my problem stems from why women are feeling the need to feed in public!

I'd hazard a guess that most of our mothers and definately our grandmothers fed in private. So why the change? Are we more selfish these days and will not be "locked" away at home lactating in private....Do we feel slighted by the "chained to the kitchen sink" stigma...sadly though through all this - its the poor little babies who are dragged here and there and dropped at childminders or nursery, who suffer due to this....not mistreating our kids at all, just pushing them quicker to grow up than maybe we did decades ago...

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I think a lot of the problems are that our mothers and grandmothers stayed at home and didn't work outside the home so therefore this subject would not have even been thought of. Usually they had bigish families to rear as well. Transport wouldn't be like it is now either. As stated earlier the pressures on women to go back to work these days are getting harder and harder. Society today is much more outspoken than it was 30 or 40 years ago.

 

[Nibble]

I was denied the teet as an infant.

But I am making up for it now by sucking lots of titties.:yahoo:

 

[tedebear]

I wish breastfeeding generally was more acceptable.

Breastfeeding in public you mean?

 

[Starry]

No not everyone is sadly! We're struggling to do it, but I'm glad I am...although having said that sometimes it does get a little tedious not having a professional life.

But I do think that is related to why nursing has become such public property - as women have to be out and about (earning money) things that were once done at home, are now being done in public - thats the link I think....

Maybe. I don't know, never really thought of it like that.

 

[surrey jim]

FFS. A woman breastfeeding is not equivalent to a bloke sitting on the train having one off the wrist...boobies are nice fun when making babies, once babies are born, boobies are lunch.