Pints & breastfeeding

[Bashinthecattick]

Was in the pub and this mum walks in. Really cute tiny baby. Got chatting and she told she me had baby 4 days earlier.
Frankly I was astonished she was in the pub and not comatose but good for her if she's happy and can manage. It wasn't a mad rave, but middle of the day, family pub and she clearly felt able.
Sat down, mum on next table. She then went onto order about a pint (at this point I was just in earshot).
But over the next two hours she ordered three more (all alcohol - I was earwigging) and drank them all while breastfeeding.
Ok, yes, I judged. I said nothing, of course. She seemed pretty steady, not slurring etc. Was I an arsehole? Do people do this?

RTFT.

Alcohol barely registers in breastmilk.

Unless you thought women’s stomachs were connected to their milk ducts?

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I can't get worked up this, what I can be wound up about is how quick we are to judge women.
Good for her for feeling human enough to be out, maybe she wanted some normality and company, are we going to judge the father of the baby too?

These are the type of situations that you observe and maybe say 'god I couldn't have done that but each to their own' and you don't give it a second thought. Let alone start a thread to shame her on the Internet.

As for the midwives saying don’t eat grapes - I’d have been demanding a new midwife straight away, I don’t trust thick fuckers to deliver a baby safely

Had the midwives all recently taken a hard blow to the head?

😂😂😂😂

I don’t think she was feeding the baby alcohol?

@Ponoka7

You have completely made this up

I thought you were with your mates?

My son is now 9 months and is fine. We slept better for it. Best decision putting him in his own room. Anyway mind your own business. Thought you weren't commenting anymore.

No, working I'm afraid

OK, I’m going to try to put this as nicely as I can.

Parenting in a completely hysterical, fearful, worse-case-scenario, ridiculous way whereby you don’t bother to read facts (but claim a woman is giving her baby ‘pOiSOn’ when in fact she really isn’t) won’t make you a good parent just because they’re in the room with you until six months. Babies turn into children and this kind of attitude is damaging and will only serve to feed them anxiety. I used to work with children and saw it SO many times. Parents thinking that they were doing well because they still stuck to guidelines on rear facing, or similar, but actually their poor children were nervous wrecks because of total histrionics and fear instilled into them from a tiny age.

Also, please read up on SIDS before posting totally offensive nonsense. Babies who DO share their rooms with parents die of SIDS.

Ah right just as you said it opened up a debate with your mates

Working yet drinking? OP!

God almighty.

I think your comments are at best deliberately provocative and at worst outrageously inappropriate. How dare you call someone not a good mother for decisions they've made?

Ah yes, totally understand the confusion. Because afterwards I initially actually said what most people on here said but IRL breastfeeding friends were surprised. Not about drinking and BF so much, but - to be honest - about taking such a young baby along to what was clearly a matey pissup. And they all said they wouldn't have felt happy being in care of such a young child when both mum and dad had boozed significantly (which they had, clearly, they weren't downing non alcoholic beers). It may be an issue of tolerance on my part, however, as I would be drunk on 4 pints so find this behaviour astonishing. I do appreciate the headline was misleading.

Actually it's reduced after 8 months. I'm a fantastic mother and you just have to look at my son to see. Always smiling, content. Hardly cries. Of you fuck now.

Off*

Ssssshhhhh! One wine and then lemonade :)

Pious twat.

Seriously, you need help for your neurosis. I mean it, it’s not normal to be so terrified. And it WILL rub off on your poor children.

Nearly 50,000 babies were born in 2021, of that 168 died from SIDS. Those 49,800 weren’t ‘lucky’ or always made perfect to-the-guidelines decisions. And the 168 didn’t all make terrible decisions

FYI parents aren’t always to blame for SIDS.