What is the obsession with
breastfeeding mothers?
Seriously.
Everywhere you look it seems
someone’s banging on about whether women should cover up, be more discreet, or
sit in a corner to feed their child.
How’s about we just don’t
say anything.
Don’t cast judgement.
Don’t offer up alternatives,
like covering a breastfeeding mother with what looks like a massive tablecloth
as a waiter recently did to a mum feeding her 12-week-old baby in Claridge’s.
Don’t make stupid comparisons
like the King of Neanderthals, Jeremy Clarkson, who likened breastfeeding in
public to taking a piss in full view of the general public.
Just don’t. Say. Anything.
Anyone who’s breastfed a
child knows it can be a nightmare.
You’re desperate for your
baby to latch on, but the chances are that your nipples are blistered at best;
bleeding and infected at worst.
Before you’ve even left the
hospital, the breastfeeding police have been round to check you’re doing it
right, and often won’t let you go home until you’ve ‘proved’ you’ve got the hang of it.
So there’s that.
There’s also the slight disadvantage
that you can’t negotiate with a baby.
You can’t say, ‘hang on a
minute mate, I know you’re hungry, but how’s about holding on for a minute
until I can find an appropriate, inoffensive corner to sit in to feed you?’
It can be a messy,
uncomfortable experience, punctuated with milk-soaked breast pads and cheesy
smelling bras if you’ve stumbled in a knackered fug from day-to-night wearing
the same nursing bra until you realise the bottom-of-the-fridge smell that’s
been following you round is actually you.
And when you do get the hang
of it, there’s no guarantee that your baby is going to stay feeding for any
length of time once they’ve started.
I have, on more than one occasion,
been feeding my son whilst messing about on my phone or reading a magazine in a
cafĂ©, only to realise that he’s nodded off and I’m sitting there, tits out.
The point is, and I know
this is so painfully obvious it makes me want to shoot myself in my own face for
even having to say it, but breastfeeding is natural.
It is feeding.
Feeding a baby that would
otherwise be hungry.
Women are not getting their
breasts out for the sexual gratification of men. I mean, seriously, who gets a
boner over that?
Women are not doing it to
offend other people. Or to make a statement.
They are simply feeding
their children when they are hungry.
So, Jeremy Clarkson, Nigel
Farage, Claridge’s staff and anyone else for that matter who wants to pass
judgement on breastfeeding women.
Try saying nothing. This
isn’t the 70’s. You’re not Benny Hill.
When the thought pops into
your head to open your mouth or put pen to paper.
Don’t.
Don’t.
Ha ha! Agreed. Sick to death of reading peoples 'opinion'. Who gives a shit? It's a basic bodily function that keeps the world going round. What's all the fuss about?
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