To think this is seriously bizarre?

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This

that's put me right off my weetabix

YANBU.........I don't know what else to say.....

erm...............

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

I'm sure that this sort of thing goes on, I mean, you'd do anything to save someone you loved from dying, wouldn't you? But what I don't understand is why shout about it? That's what makes it sound suspicous.

Makes me angry too.

OFGS there is no way he's actually going to get any milk with his mouth like that!. That a load of crap.

that is VERY odd!
is there a creeped out emoticon?

I am so tired of these sorts of articles which present breastfeeding as something freaky

There is no way an adult could latch surely?

How is he getting any milk out?

And, maybe I was a freak, but expressing 4oz didn't used to take me a horrendously long time, could she not have experimented with different expressing devices?

Adults can't latch. So gotta be fake.

Really annoys me - this one, that dog one... No wonder there is a stigma and a bad attitude towards breastfeeding!

that is ridiculous. Expressing is one thing but I don't see how he could really suckle and it's freakish and unnecessary.

I think the story has been made into something deliberately salacious to make people go eurgh

I could easily express too so i reckon this may be staged/set up to get money for the story

eeeeeeeeeeeee
and i didn't think adults were able to latch on either?
creepy

Nonsense. Why can she not express it and he can have it that way, agree that most people would try anything to save a loved one but I couldn't do that with my dad. My guess is they wanted £250 or whatever the fee is for ridiculous made up stories that go in there

Of course adults can latch on and get milk! All they have to do is stimulate the milk to let down, and then just mimic what a baby would do. It's not that difficult. How do you think women hand express - by mimicking what the baby does with it's mouth. And adult is more than capable of working that out.

And yes, it's been really sensationalised and that's what makes me really

i do find it creepy but wanted to add that i couldnt pump with either of mine but the babys could get out as much as they needed...

so if it was me, it wouldnt work..

Surely if they used their real names etc then $250 wouldn't justify the "discomfort" with friends and co-workers etc after they read that.

I don't know about adults latching, but DP has occasionally had a taste of my milk whilst ahem ... well you know ...

Also I can get milk out if I suck my own nipples (twas MN what made me do it, someone else had a thread)

So I guess it is possible, but whether it would be comfortable ... and I do find it a bit and that picture is just unecessary

Strange article - why not express? On adults bf there is a myth from a long time ago about a daughter feeding her father in prison & no one knew how he was surviving so he was released.

Eww. But I did PMSL at the Dad recovering from "ladder cancer".

FFS

I've seen programmes on both people treating cancer with breast milk and on the writers for true life magazines so neither shocks me from that pov. The picture however does as does the fact that he is getting the milk 'direct'.

I don't know any man who would do this, including my own father with is battling cancer with a less favourable projection than the man in the story!

"There's a substance in breast milk known as 'Hamlet'?"
Oh FFS I think htis is a windup and if so I salute the perpetrators.

isn't hamlet a cigar?