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Earlier today on twitter something like, reasonwhyI’mnotcallingback was trending. I randomly clicked it to see what people were saying (something I rarely waste my time doing). One of the tweets was about not calling someone back because they had been breastfeeding while they were on the phone (the other person) and they added #gross to it. It got me curious so I searched twitter for breastfeeding and gross to see if there were any other posts about breastfeeding that were worthy of a #gross. Sadly I came across some - although not as many as I had expected.
I guess I just don’t understand it and would love it if someone could explain it to me. How is breastfeeding (BF) gross? I’m not one of those hardcore “You must breastfeed or you are a bad mother” type people. I totally understand the desire and the need to use formula. I had a bit of postpartum depression that I believe stemmed from breastfeeding and if I hadn’t really wanted to BF her for at least 6 months I probably would have switched to formula. While I do think breast milk cannot be duplicated and is superior to formula I have zero judgement for those who choose another way to feed their child - I don’t think it is “poison” like some people make it out to be. I have just made the decision to nurse my child until she is a year old, there is no reason not to for me.
umm where did that rambling come from??
Back to the issue - I don’t understand why people think that feeding a child is gross. I understand that many people see women’s chests to be sexual, and that is perfectly fine - but how does it make it gross to use them for their original purpose? People like to blame BFing on changes in their breast - but it is actually the pregnancy hormones that do that, not BFing. I guess I just am clueless on how it is gross. The World Health Organization actually recommends it until age 2. Now out of my own admittedly selfish reasons I will probably start pushing Norah to wean soon after her first birthday, but it has nothing to do with my thinking it would otherwise be gross.
Humans drink COWS milk without thinking anything about it - you do know that the milk from cows is their "breast milk" right? In order for a cow to start producing milk they must birth a calf and then their milk peaks at about 40-60 days after giving birth and then it slowly declines until about 300 days after having their calf, and then the start the cycle again so they can get the cow to produce more milk. So I'm curious if the person that tweeted about someone else's breast milk getting on them being gross - if they have that same gross reaction when a cow's breast milk not only gets on them, but they drink it themselves. We (children and adults) drink another animals breast milk - but yet when a child drinks the milk from their same species apparently that's gross?
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I’ve just yet to hear an intelligent argument as to why or how it is gross to breastfeed. I would love to hear one though - anyone have one? I’m honestly and legitimately asking for someone to rationally argue with me that breastfeeding is gross - more than just a "I don't know, it's just gross".
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