Anyone else prepared to admit they actively wanted to bf in order to stick it to The Man!

[Penthesileia]

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!

[thisisyesterday]

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

[whomovedmychocolate]

Mother in law maybe, but not the man

[BouncingTurtle]

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

[Penthesileia]

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

Grrr - bring it on...

[StealthPo09IsHere]

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

[CharCharGabor]

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

[Penthesileia]

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

[Penthesileia]

your

[BoffinMum]

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.

[thisisyesterday]

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

[StealthPo09IsHere]

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

[BoffinMum]

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.

[StealthPo09IsHere]

You have been bf for 12 years?

[thisisyesterday]

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

[BoffinMum]

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

Is this a bf record, I ask myself??

[Penthesileia]

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

[Penthesileia]

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.

[BoffinMum]

I am indeed feeling very revolutionary these days.

[Penthesileia]

[thisisyesterday]

22 years????? how?

[lovelysongbirdie]

yeah a bit.
stick it a bit lol

[mamalovesmincepiesANDmojitos]

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 .

[StealthPo09IsHere]

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

[AnarchyAunt]

There was an element of it, yes