to think that this does not promote breastfeeding?

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This girl DH is friends with has just posted a picture on FB of a hat she has knitted for a friend's newborn baby. Apparently the baby hat is meant to promote breastfeeding. It is a boob! Yes, a boob as a hat for a new baby. I have no issues with boobs. I am still breastfeeding my 18 months old DD but I fail to see how putting a boob hat on a baby will promote breastfeeding.

AIBU?

sounds fun.

They've been around for ages and are more of a joke ime than a serious message

see my boobs are rude and sexual but also fed my 4 for years.

so now knee warmers so maybe replace a hat for knee pads!!

I think they're just designed with people who have a sense of humor in mind.

I'm sorry but it does make me do this -

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Knit a boob hat. Put it on the baby for a photo. Boob hat has done its job in making you and others smile.

Put boob hat away, somewhere you'll find it when your baby is sixteen, and show it to them. Enjoy all over again.

"Is there also a big version of these hats that the dads have to wear to show support for their breastfeeding partners while out in public?"

No - he'd look a tit in that. (Sorry!)

I think the hats are a bit of fun, and I'm all for sticking 2 fingers up at the 'put it away' brigade.

Oh you can crochet them, I might have a go

this will stop people seeing breasts as rude or sexual

Ain't never gonna happen !

Oh my breasts totally are rude and sexual.

I also lactate, and have fed 4 DCs.

The two are not mutually exclusive

Those hats are a bit silly looking.
The thing that will normalise bf is to be normal about it. No gimmicks or tweeness needed.

oy Shiraz!!! stole my post!!! 😄😄

again my boobs are for sex and babies and I love that

also when I had a blocked milk duct with dd3 my dh sorted it by a good old suck job and as he balked at swallowing the resulting surge in liquid it was funny. as in been there. 😄

wouldn't it be fantastic if women could just feed their babies how they see fit be it breast or bottle and actually the world just kept the fuck out of it????

When you run for charity you raise money. When you knit a boob hat, you just have a boob hat.

Ha ha! This sounds like some sort of mantra or life quote. I'm gonna stick it on a post it so I can see it every day to keep me on the right path .

I think these are quite funny. Don't have one personally but have felt tempted when getting grief from my inlaws for breastfeeding

Why would anyone give their baby a boob head? Weird. If you want to promote breastfeeding, then the best way to do it is to breastfeed in public.

Maybe I fail to see the point because in 18 months of breastfeeding DD, I have never had a rude stare or comment. I have feed her literally everywhere. In fact, I was quite insecure and shy about feeding her in public for the first 2 months or so because I had read so often on Mumsnet about how women are being sneered at for breastfeeding when out and about.

Are we making a bigger deal out of this than it actually is? I still think the way to go if you want to promote breastfeeding, is to just breastfeed wherever you want. Because then other new mums and pregnant women will see you and think " if she can do this, then so can I".

I still find the hats stupid and childish. I do accept however that I don't have the biggest sense of humour.

Is there also a big version of these hats that the dads have to wear to show support for their breastfeeding partners while out in public?

I am literally crying with laughter here and had to explain why to DH, who is now sniggering too.

Take it further and have everyone who a bf mother is out with wearing these hats when she's nursing. Not just Dad and baby, but older siblings, grandparents, friends etc. Just think of the MIL threads on AIBU after that!

AIBU to be offended that my MIL refuses to wear the boob hat I've knitted her while nursing in public?

It's a joke.

The gift-giver likes knitting. And it's - you know - a joke.

She probably doesn't even expect it to be used - she probably had fun knitting it and hoped it might raise a smile.

I'm amazed you're being so 'Outraged-from-Tunbridge-Wells' about this!

I also.have a boob hat.that was made for me after i.ran.the bupa 10k with mrsdevere its.funny!

I am.also.pro.bfeeding, i have worn the hat, so has my ds4 who is 5 and my dd who is 2. I have pics of them wearing it.

I think.they are funny and sweet!

I love the way you can get them to match your skin tone etc

Would love one just for when the PIL next come round and they start looking awkwardly everywhere but at me when I'm feeding and we're talking

It provokes a response and starts a conversation about bf, which helps normalise bf and stop it being seen as a shameful, private, behind-closed-doors activity.

And before you ask OP - not everyone has had the same lovely experience of public acceptance of bf that you have. I certainly haven't, nor have most of the bfers I have met at feeding groups (spoken to probably 100+, would say at least half have had negative comments).

And even if it was just a joke, why do you feel everyone has to have your sense of humour?

DD had one, btw. It is the only pink item of clothing she owns. One of the senior staff at our local Surestart centre knitted it in her spare time for a surprise gift, and she's offered a bigger one for this year.

Really want one with a piercing!