Vanessa Feltz wants to breastfeed her grandson!

[LisaMcGarry]

I don't what I find more disturbing. Vanessa's comments or the picture in this article.

The mental picture is frightening!

Nice that she's excited though lol

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[Dfg15]

I wonder how her daughter feels about that!

[TheFabulousIdiot]

oh she's just all excited and feeling maternal bless her.
I remember my own MIL said the same thing and I was a bit but now that I have breastfed my own child I can understand how it feels.

I don't like that the article says 'Sweet lord! The mental image is terrifying!'
what is terrifying about the idea of Vanessa breastfeeding, or is this just yet another of those breast/fat/women bashing views.

What she is actually promoting - babies being breastfed - is overall a good thing.

[TheFabulousIdiot]

This has also been reported. She sounds like she will be a lovely grandparent.

Despite her joy, Cambridge University educated Vanessa is vaguely aware that she must refrain from engulfing the latest addition to the Feltz family with too much love and recently wrote in her column: 'I must remember that this is not my baby.
'Though it will feel like flesh of my flesh and my urge will be to cuddle it as tightly as humanly possible and not let go, I must remind myself that I'm a generation removed.
'I will do my utmost to take my cue from the new mummy and daddy. I will offer advice only when asked but offer help, food for the parents and babysitting services in unlimited supplies.'

[Thumbwitch]

Just because she has big boobs, it's terrifying?!

No.

But I too wonder how her DD feels about it - I'd be HORRIFIED at the thought of my MIL trying to breastfeed my baby, and my own mum wasn't much of a bf'er (3d for me, not sure she even managed the colostrum for my sibs) but I think that would have bothered me too.

As for the "we are a grandmother" - I really hope she was being tongue-in-cheek about that.

[Gileswithachainsaw]

I think she just got carried away. How lovely for that baby to have a family who love him so much.

It's great she's so happy and wants to be involved.

She just sounds like an over excited grandma, let her enjoy it bless her.

[PoopMaster]

Well that wasn't the most enlightened article, was it

I understand what she means - I think everything is being taken too literally!

[sillyoldfool]

Oh bless her she just let the words out without thinking, I can understand feeling that urge.
she's giddy and madly in love with her grandson, its lovely.

[NewBlueCoat]

she sounds happy and excited to eb a grandmother.

I would love to have an older generation sound as interested in my children (my parents are dead, PIL are, quite frankly, bonkers and not involved at all - thankfully!).

It does sound a bit OTT, but then gain, her dds are used to having her as their mother, iyswim, so wouldn't expect anythign less.

I wish them all the best

[coppertop]

From what I've heard of her on the radio, she's just very excited about her new grandson finally arriving.

[Showy]

I think those of us who aren't grandparents yet find it hard to understand what it feels like. My MIL was completely overwhelmed by becoming a grandma. She felt so privileged to experience the natural and all-consuming love which crashes into existence when you become a parent and never realised that it feels the same to welcome your own grandchild. They feel like 'yours' in that same way that your own dc feel like yours. I think it's a very animalistic thing and the desire to nurture is strong.

I wouldn't take it literally at all. It's lovely that she's positively reinforcing the sheer pleasure of welcoming a grandchild. It's a shame that in her exuberance, she's chosen words which will be seized by a minority and held up as something shameful.

[bluebayou]

Frankly I am appalled , what a silly woman

[sillyoldfool]

a few generations back grandmothers probably did sometimes bf their grandchildren!

[LisaMcGarry]

Still, she freaks me out a little.....

[notundermyfoof]

Oh bless her, shes just really excited about her new grandson. I understood what she meant, shes not actually intending to breastfeed him fgs

[xuntitledx]

I'm sure she didn't mean it literally but it's still a creepy thing to say. I'd be a little if I heard my MiL or DM say that.

[HereIsMee]

That's one baby that won't get hungry. It could be practical but I agree she's probably a bit excited at being a new gran.

[LisaMcGarry]

I hadn't thought about the MIL angle. God imagine being the baby's dad lol

[PPaka]

Oh fgs
She doesn't mean it literally
Can you not read between the lines
She's just excited

[horsetowater]

I love VF, she's smart and witty. What she does in her private life is sometimes odd, but the media would find something odd to say about anyone.

Of course she's not literally going to breastfeed her GC. VF is the queen of metaphor and exaggeration.

[TaraLott]

How very rude, she's excited and thrilled and good luck to them all.

[3bunnies]

Now that is the sort of thread AIBU was made for.

[TheDoctrineOf2014]

We are a grandparent is a clear pisstake of Margaret thatcher, no?

She seems very excited and lovely

[BettyMacdonald]

I bloody love Vanessa - her radio show is fab. She's just hugely maternal and thoroughly over excited!

[NewBlueCoat]

I can see (already! and my dc are all young - youngest is still breastfeeding, so not as though it is an imminent prospect) that when handed a grandchild in the future, and cradlign alittle newborn, it will feel a bit odd to not sit down all tucked up, and settle in for a snuggly feed. it's what you do with babies, isn't it? (disclaimer - I had nothing to do with babies at all before i had mine, so no experience of handling a newborn and not feeding it, and have bf all 3 of them past a year. dd1 had part time bottles, dd2 had an occasional bottle and ds has had none at all, so it really will feel a bit alien to hold a baby but not feed it, tbh)

[LisaMcGarry]

Maybe you're right....I'm not sure if I would be so freaked out if it was anyone other than Vanessa. She scares me a little..... ;-)