Breastfeeding is Gross

Source

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?

Source

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". 

________________________________________________________________________

If you like my blog please click the image below. 

There is nothing to sign up for, just click and you are done. Thanks!

 

Nursing In the Car

I used to find it odd and maybe even a bit suspicious if I saw a car park off by itself in the back of a parking lot all by itself with people in it. It just always seemed a bit odd.

Source

  We are now that suspicious car. If we are out and about for the day at least once or twice you could find us at that far away parking spot under any shade tree we could find - sitting in our car. We probably look even more suspicious as my husband gets Norah out of the back from her car seat and brings her to the front.
   I always prefer nursing Norah in the car over in a store though. I'm fine if other's sit down in a store and nurse and I have done it several times before (though I am someone that uses a cover) but if I have the option I'd just rather nurse somewhere quieter and less public (one could argue I suppose that in a parking lot is pretty public). I don't have to deal with her pulling at the cover making me worried that she's going to cause me to flash all of Macy's and she doesn't take 30 minutes to nurse because she's distracted by every.single.person that comes within 50 feet of her. It just really works for us.

So if you happen to see me get out of the front seat of our car from the back of the parking lot and I'm holding Norah, know that we weren't driving like that :)