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RealGhouls · 05/10/2018 11:42

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/05/millennial-dads-are-a-force-for-good-but-even-we-cant-breastfeed

"Millennial dads are a force for good, but even we can't breastfeed"

A self-indulgent wankfest about how his wife (that's not very progessive, Dan) giving birth was so terribly stressful to him and how

" During the delivery the midwives let me take a photo of Declan being yanked out, covered in blood and gore. After the nurses took him away again I turned the video into a gif in reverse (the child going back into my wife’s stomach) and sent it to my brother-in-law. I still hadn’t told him my son’s name."

"We’ve been lucky enough to be able to exclusively breastfeed since birth (having been bullied into it by some aggressive midwives) – but because we’ve had issues with expressing, my wife is basically tethered to the child. I can’t get up at night and feed the boy to give her a solid eight hours of sleep and it does get to me. She can’t yet bugger off for a weekend away letting me take the kid. I just can’t be enough of a parent for our child yet.

Would you believe as a straight, white male what has driven me insane is being unable to feed my son. This baby is going to need his mum for at least a while longer. . It seems that despite all the progress of gender equality and being able to flip gender roles on their head, men being unable to lactate may be the final Rubicon to cross. Given we’re close to being able to gestate babies in bags, how far away are we from men being able to chow down on some Pfizer Dadanol and get lactating? Looks like until the Elon Musk of norgs gets on the case, I’m going to continue to be the worse parent."

I'm honestly confused how he overlooks the 'being pregnant and having a uterus' issue in favour of 'omigod it's so terrible my son can't suckle on my moobs'.

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WomaninBoots · 05/10/2018 12:26

What the actual fuck? Are they real published words? Am I seeing this. Utterly disgusting.

Stomach? FUCK OFF AND LEARN YOUR YEAR 8 BIOLOGY YOU FUCKING COCKWOMBLE.

That poor woman needs to LTB for sure.

I'm terribly sorry that men can't die in childbirth either mate. Or be treated as reproductive commodities for the whole of history. Small price to pay for the "privilege" of being able to breast feed in the middle of the night, eh?

53rdWay · 05/10/2018 12:24

well, yes, he’s also going through that irritating new-parent-with-a-public-platform thing of declaring that everyone else with a baby is a judgy overinvolved antivax nutcade who dresses their baby only in organic coconut fibres, but don’t worry everybody, I’m sensible enough to resist!

mate. 99% of everyone else is muddling through it just like you. And we’ll buy that you and your fellow beardy thirty-somethings are “hands-on dads” when you start using the phrase “hands-on mum” just as much.

LastOneDancing · 05/10/2018 12:24

Fucking biology.
Men really got the rough deal didn't they?

Buggeritimgettingup · 05/10/2018 12:23

FFS can't we have anything?!?! I was pregnant, I carried my kids, I breastfed them, Fuck right off with your we shit!
My husband bollocked one of his colleagues when they said " awe you two are pregnant!" " Erm no she's pregnant and doing all the hard work!"

RepealtheGRA · 05/10/2018 12:22

I want to buy his wife a drink.

I want to buy her a DIY divorce pack from WHSmiths and access to the freedom program.

53rdWay · 05/10/2018 12:21

Sending that to his brother-in-law (her brother)? Why would you do that? Why would you do that and then tell people about that? Is it part of being a ‘millennial dad’? Confused

I want to buy his wife a drink.

Batteriesallgone · 05/10/2018 12:20

The MIDWIVES let him? WTF?

What about his wife? The actual real person who he had sex with 9/10 months ago? Did he not even ask her? Or did she want him to but they both presumed that the Midwives had control over her body during birth?

Either interpretation is fucked up isn’t it?

I presume it’s meant to be inflammatory and wind up all us silly feminists who consider our bodies our own.

SheCameFromGreeceSheHadaThirst · 05/10/2018 12:20

or hold still while someone inserts them

Just like in the gif Grin

ThisIsTheNational · 05/10/2018 12:18

What a fucking prick.

What brother wants to see that Confused

ChiaraRimini · 05/10/2018 12:15

My ex ran a marathon and cycled from Lands End to John O'Groats, can I appropriate that as "our" athletic achievement? Thought not.

Juells · 05/10/2018 12:15

should be forced to push pineapples out of their rear ends.
or hold still while someone inserts them Grin

VickyEadie · 05/10/2018 12:13

I don't even have kids...and he makes me want to explode with rage, the selfish, self-centred arsehole.

The Guardian gets more like Viz every day.

Oh yes.

ChiaraRimini · 05/10/2018 12:13

Hang on, He sent a video of his wife delivering the baby to HER BROTHER????

Juells · 05/10/2018 12:13

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There aren't enough FFSs in the world to express how I feel about this kind of wankfest. "We're pregnant!" "We're breastfeeding!" Oh fuck off.

SirVixofVixHall · 05/10/2018 12:10

Oh and men so self centred and needy that they refer to their partner’s breastfeeding/pregnancy/birth as “we” should be forced to push pineapples out of their rear ends. What a nob.

SirVixofVixHall · 05/10/2018 12:08

The Guardian gets more like Viz every day.
True, but so much more tedious.

LangCleg · 05/10/2018 12:04

The Guardian gets more like Viz every day.

You win Mumsnet today!

ThomasRichard · 05/10/2018 12:04

Ignoring the rest of it... Who the heck sends a video of that to their BIL?!

AssassinatedBeauty · 05/10/2018 12:04

Even if he could take some magic medicine and be able to lactate, it would still be all about him and his wants rather than about what the mother/baby dyad need. Which is not to have any unnecessary interruptions to their breastfeeding relationship. This stupid man doesn't understand that it's not just about feeding the baby it's about the mother too.

RealGhouls · 05/10/2018 12:03

It's so stressful sleeping blissfully through the night while my wife is awake at Fuckit O Clock feeding, oh it's so stressful to me, woe is me, I wish I could be awake but oh dear looks like I'll just have to sleep never mind, such a shame.

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LangCleg · 05/10/2018 12:03

FUCK THE FUCK OFF TO THE FAR SIDE OF FUCK, YOU UTTER COCKWOMBLE.

I think that covers it.

blamethecat · 05/10/2018 11:59

I feel sorry for his partner. I somehow doubt his inability to breastfeed is what makes him the worst parent, poor diddums.

MrsWinkly · 05/10/2018 11:56

The Guardian gets more like Viz every day.

MrsWinkly · 05/10/2018 11:56

Noqont
Grin No doubt about it.
Poor thing, being the victim of those "aggressive midwives" must have really affected him.

Beautifulday49 · 05/10/2018 11:55

fuck sake