Breast feeding, pros and cons

daphne_descends

Broken_hearted wrote: »

I'm sorry but yuck., some mothers do get very pompus about BF and its those that pee off other mothers.

Breastfeeding when it worked was a nice experience and I often fell asleep with the baby still happily feeding away, but it was slow and very tiring. My last ever feed was upsetting only because it was the end of a chapter of my life, I certainly won't miss the leaky boob, long feeds, isolation and shame others impose on you.

Yuck? Excuse me? What on earth is 'yuck' about ANYTHING on that link - they are positive role models. The site and the initiative can only be a good thing.

Some mothers have no choice but to be what you describe as pompous because this country is full of morons who hate breastfeeding - unresolved issues, I'd say. I can't even feed my baby without someone giving me their unwanted and ill-informed opinion on it.

What is 'yuck' about feeding a baby? Babies are born to nurse at their mother's breast.

Broken_hearted

You are excused as they wern't feeding their babies they were making exibitions of themselves. When I breastfed in public I made sure it was somewhere comfortable, quiet and as private as possible.

Nicki

Broken_hearted wrote: »

You are excused as they wern't feeding their babies they were making exibitions of themselves. When I breastfed in public I made sure it was somewhere comfortable, quiet and as private as possible.

Oh puh-lease! There was not a hint of a nipple or anything else on show in these pictures, just confident attractive women who were nursing their children openly without shame. As for making exhibitions of themselves - they were posing for an advertising campaign to promote breastfeeding - how exactly would you have advertised this without showing the act itself

If you wanted to feed your child in private - maybe in a smelly toilet, or in your car, or whatever, that is entirely your prerogative. It doesn't however make women who incorporate it into their lives "yuck" or shameless as you imply. To be honest, even though you are a bf mum, it's attitudes like yours which set so many women who would like to bf but are not very confident socially. up for failure

neverdespairgirl

nadnad wrote: »

. While I feel it is best for baby, I would never ever ridicule anyone who chose not to.

No-one is ridiculing FF. It's all the other way, sadly.

suzieq

Broken_hearted wrote: »

You are excused as they wern't feeding their babies they were making exibitions of themselves. When I breastfed in public I made sure it was somewhere comfortable, quiet and as private as possible.

What?? That is an absolutely ridiculous comment - to publicise and promote BF is yuck is it? How on earth are they making exhibitions of themselves? There's no way to actually tell if they are feeding their babies in those shots or not, they're very discreet.

I feed my DD absolutely anywhere, in plain view of anyone, yet not one person has ever seen my boob. BFeeding in public needn't mean getting your baps out for the world to see.

Broken_hearted

Oh for god sake I've never fed my baby in a toilet nor did I say it was shameless. I said that campaign was yuck and it was. No one pses like that to feed their baby so it wasn't pictures of people being natural at all. Why should I have to like everything to do with BF, thats the attitude I dislike. Its either totally for or against, newsflash life isn't like that.
BTW comfortable and quiet places are benches in the park overlookinhg the lake, coffee shops with a drink and cake. Sometimes in the car if needs must, family events infact anywhere.

Broken_hearted

suzieq wrote: »

How on earth are they making exhibitions of themselves? There's no way to actually tell if they are feeding their babies in those shots or not, they're very discreet.

I'd put money on the fact they arn't feeding those babies in them shots.

suzieq

Hmmm, I think there has been some crossed wires here broken hearted - I took it that you meant feeding a baby openly, as those ladies are in the ads, was yuck, but reading back, did you mean that you don't think they're feeding at all? And that to you, is yuck? Just posing like that? Don't you think they're BFing Mums at all?

sooz

I just think the ads are funny.

I mean what new mum puts on that much make up, and irons her clothes?

If i could find clean clothes, it was a plus. For the first 6 months (and still now, if I think about it, some 2 years down the line) my iron & I were barely aquainted.

Make up is still mostly limited to concealer (and it has to be touche eclat, nothing else comes close to hiding those bags under my eyes)

nearly forgot...who doesn't sit down to breastfeed? Particularly, some of those babies looked HEAVY!

suzieq

sooz wrote: »

nearly forgot...who doesn't sit down to breastfeed? Particularly, some of those babies looked HEAVY!

Sooooo true! I remember when my DD2 was weighed on day 5, 5lb 12oz, bless, and I walked around the house that night, feeding her on and off for hours, as I had horrific constipation yet these days, I struggle to carry my gorgeous 20lb-chubba-bubba more than 5-10 mins :rotfl: and whilst I can feed standing up, you can see the strain almost immediately! :rotfl: