On Momversation: Breastfeeding Bullies

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  Posted by hrtbroken Tue Feb 3, 2009 9:40am PST

  I am with you, I am tired of the whole breastfeeding phenonmena!!! UGHGHGHGHGHHG

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  Posted by HotCrossBuns Tue Feb 3, 2009 6:53pm PST

  I was asked to leave an infant playgroup once because i NOT ONLY bottle fed my baby...but I let him have a pacifier when he was done! Some people need to get a life and leave other people's boobies alone!

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  Posted by Christa Tue Feb 3, 2009 10:12pm PST

  Ya and breastfeeding mothers have been asked to leave many different places and groups for doing what they do. It isn't the breastfeeding ladies, it's everyone who thinks other people's lives and children are their business! They aren't so everyone needs to butt out and take care of their own kids and lives.

  I am a huge supporter of breastfeeding, I did it with 3 of my 4 children. I have even helped many women who wanted my help. However, I would never make a woman feel bad about what they chose, and I have many friends did both.

  Breastfeeding phenomena? Really? Women have been breastfeeding LONG before formula came to be. Formula is the phenomenon.

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  Posted by Erin Wed Feb 4, 2009 7:03am PST

  When my munchkin was first born and while I was pregnant, perfect strangers asked on a regular basis if I was breastfeeding or bottle feeding. I always thought it was rude of them. Afterall, as long as she's getting good nutrition, what business is it if theirs how I'm feeding her? And for crying out loud they're talking about my breasts! In any other context it would be considered horribly, miserably rude and all the people around would probably rip them a new one for it.

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  Posted by Zeplin522 Wed Feb 4, 2009 7:45am PST

  I swear, when are people going to learn to mind their own buisness.

  These are the facts people, do what works for you, and this means

  for those of you who still have brains like a brick wall, what

  works for you doesnt mean it works for everyone. We have choices

  let us make our own.

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  Posted by Mystica Wed Feb 4, 2009 8:41am PST

  First of all to each his or her own as long as the kids are healthy and loved who cares!!!!! And people need to get over the boob thing it's just a boob or a nipple we all got nipples so back off. And if someone wants me to breast feed in the toilet then I want them to go eat in the bathroom too!!!!!! Personaly I have big breasts so I use a shaul in public I have it in my bag and put it on it works great in all weather and covers just enough to keep peepin eyes out....yet not smother my child on a hot day.

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  Posted by Barbie Wed Feb 4, 2009 10:58am PST

  I breastfed my son for four months until I dried up. He is eight months now and he is on formula. I am not the type of mother who tries to push breastfeeding down someones throat! As long as the baby is getting the nutrients it needs its fine with me. I hated when people came to me to ask why I had stopped. I said, I rather give him formula than for him to starve! Ladies, its your choice. It's your baby. So don't feel pressured to do anything you don't want to do.

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  Posted by Stacey Wed Feb 4, 2009 11:18am PST

  I think there are annoying people on both sides... I don't appreciate the militant nature of either. I appreciate that people are passionate about promoting breastfeeding, but nobody likes being told what to do or how to do it. How do they know there isn't breastmilk in that "offensive" bottle? Everyone has a right to make their own choice, so just do it and get over the rest. There are times to speak out and times to hold your tongue: chastising someone in a park, playgroup, or other public place for either breast- or bottle- feeding is unnecessary and rude. If you don't like what they are doing, don't look. It's a personal and sometimes emotional decision. Can't we all just be kind, or at least just leave people alone about the choices that don't affect anyone else? Honestly, are you really put out by someone breastfeeding in your vicinity? Most people are so discreet (myself included) that nobody even knows it's happening.

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  Posted by HotCrossBuns Wed Feb 4, 2009 11:18am PST

  DJ:your comment brings up memories of the time i nursed Kid2 in a public restaurant. Even though it was under cover of a receiving blanket, I guess the pervert hillbilly next to me go blindsighted by his own imagination...and he made rude comments to our table as they GOT UP AND LEFT about "when did this kind of obscenity become acceptable in public?"

  You're right: we're all damned if we do or damned if we don't. There will always be someone to complain about the way we all do things...because we're not doing it their way. Life goes on...

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  Posted by ChiVike Wed Feb 4, 2009 11:59am PST

  In my neighborhood, we called them the "LaLeche Nazis" -- once, during an extended period of illness which required me to take medication, I had my son on formula until I was able to get all the medicine out of my system -- you would have thought I was feeding him Windex by the reactions I got!

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