Men breastfeeding?

[Orangeblossom78]

To find this a bit grim?

"The preliminary research suggested that men often drink before the child is fed, usually once a day, sometimes more frequently, and for about an hour at a time.

The men said they found it energising. “It sustains me, I come home for lunch and it relieves stress in the middle of the working day,” said Thomas*."

The men also said it was a way of initiating sex and showing affection. “But then it is happening to women who have just given birth,” he added.

"One man told the researchers: “When breastfeeding, I feel like I’m being looked after like a child, and this becomes addictive. I feel like a prince.”

Women did not seem to have much choice in the matter. “It appears to be a hugely coerced behaviour from the people we spoke to,” added Merritt."

www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jan/28/she-cant-say-no-the-men-who-take-breast-milk-from-babies

God some men are disgusting.

Wtf have I just read.

It's disgusting. I suspect there are men in this country who try to get their partners to do it but for me it'd be a LTB moment.

There are indeed lots of societal and gender-based issues here but in and of itself I don't see why it's disgusting. Most humans consume animal breast milk in one form or another and we're generally ok with that.

Breastfeeding my 8mo whilst I read that. Not a chance I'll be going downstairs and breastfeeding my husband next.
In a seriousness...those poor women😡

I guess sadly it’s a different world n those places. Women have little rights and the men control their every move.
But extra gross how feeding had to be sexualised in that article. Sad
I breastfeed my 4month old atm and there is no way my partner comes near my breasts

What the actual fuck?

Grim but I was really unsurprised to read this, especially that it’s Uganda.

Even here, “Lactating women/breastfeeding men” is a whole genre of porn.

Ugh shudder

Yuck.

I wonder if many men generally like this, I mean in Uk as well. Is it a 'thing'?

I searched MN and found this rather odd post about a gadget helping men to breastfeed www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3506515-Breastfeeding-men-project

"rationale is that men often suffer from depression after a baby is born because they feel excluded and one of the things they struggle with is that the mother is feeding the baby and they can't." Hmm

Oh sorry that was to make men produce milk!

I've really had just about enough of men's wants and men's needs.

And here I was thinking I was going to be reading about hormones that men could take to enable them to produce milk

They other thread is about that Moly.

Absolutely revolting. Fucking hell.

I hate men sometimes.

Same @SnorkMaiden81, I'm married to a man, raising two and was wonderfully parented by my Father.

But as a sex class, absolute beasts.

For fucks sake. Those poor women.

It's the combination of the way they are treating the women, combined with the way they are taking nutrition from their own babies Grim

That is truly gross. I wonder if they're the same men who like to wear nappies and pretend to be babies

Yes, OP, the sheer selfishness of it is astounding. "I feel like a prince". Bugger off!

The exact same thread had been started earlier but yeah not nice .

I want a “like” button for
I've really had just about enough of men's wants and men's needs.
Those poor women - and their babies.