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Of course, breast is best for my baby, and all.

But - anyone else read 'The Politics of Breastfeeding' and think: no damn evil corporation is going to take advantage of my need to feed my baby, dammit. Those lousy companies, still responsible for infant deaths in the developing world, ain't getting a penny of my cash.

Etc. Etc.

Breastfeeding was as much a political issue for me as it was a bonding and nurturing one. I'm not afraid to admit it!

In your face, The Man!

oh absolutely. and if ds2 had needed supplementing at any point I would have done my damndest to get him donated BM rather than give formula

Mother in law maybe, but not the man

Yes I agree with you completely

"no damn evil corporation is going to take advantage of my need to feed my baby, dammit. Those lousy companies, still responsible for infant deaths in the developing world, ain't getting a penny of my cash."

was how I felt but you articulated it for me!!

Not so much sticking it to the man, but out if sheer stubbornness!

Also - Up yours, The Man, for trying to make society think there's something disgusting about bf-ing. Etc. Etc.

Grrr - bring it on...

er no although I feel more political about it the longer I do it, but it's from a public health pov more than anything else

Yes, definitely. Not as important as all the other reasons, but definitely part of it.

LOL wmmc! Are you sure you MIL is not The Man?

your

I recall a very happy afternoon when me and my ante-natal class sat all together in a pavement cafe bf in unison in a highly politicised collective socking to the Man, only to find that everyone smiled at us and looked approvingly, so perhaps things are on the turn.

lol boffinmum.
i have been waiting and waiting for someone to provoke me into unleashing some huge diatribe on breastfeeding.
but 15 months on all i've had are smiles and nice comments.
bah

tiy, you're feeding at 15 months. Urgh that;s disgusting. He should be weaned off that now. Rod for your own back. etc

Rant away

Yes, actually the only person who has ever said anything horrid to me about bf since 1987 is my own (ff) mother, who effectively asked me to leave a restaurant where we were having a meal "in case they ask us to leave because you are doing that" while DD and DS1 got to finish their meal with her in attendance. I stood outside in the street feeding DS2 in the passage by the side of the restaurant while passers by stopped and expressed pity. (I know I should have stood up to her but she can be very bossy and German and I had just had a baby, FGS!)

Usually people just smile and offer to get me refereshments, etc.

You have been bf for 12 years?

lol stealth, wait wait I need to memorise my rant again first!!!! hehe

It will have been on and off for 22 years, but involving different small people.

Is this a bf record, I ask myself??

Go BoffinMum! Aren't you leading a childcare revolution on another thread? You're on FIRE, woman!

And I too have been longing waiting for someone to comment negatively on my feeding DD... So far, no takers. Pah. No-good, yellow-belly, lily-livered, woolly, liberal university town. <spits in the sand>

I am indeed feeling very revolutionary these days.

<marches jauntily beside BoffinMum>

22 years????? how?

yeah a bit.
stick it a bit lol

ha, i was the same. when mastitis and bleeding nipples kicked in, when xp begged me to give up and give myself a break as dd didn't latch on properly for weeks, it was sheer stubborness that made me continue.

also would have loved someone to challenge me in restaurant/similar. nobody ever noticed .

I think her finger slipped and she meant to type 2.
Or rather....wow!