oh FFS. Daily Fail in 'boobs are for sex, innit' shocker.

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story here

may have been linked elsewhere.

but anyway - am rolling my eyes so hard they may never return to face the front at some of these lines.

"?If breast-feeding becomes the only way the child can feel safe and comfortable, it could become dependent on it,? says Dr Helen Barrett, developmental psychologist and author of Attachment And The Perils Of Parenting.
?And for children with particular needs that already make them a target for bullies, continuing to breast-feed could make that situation even worse."

and

"In the extreme nursing debate perhaps Becky?s experience is the most persuasive argument of all for weaning children as babies ? before they realise they are being breast-fed at all."

I recently fed DS (13 months) on a tractor ride at a farm. Sadly I didn't take a photo or I could have offered that for the extreme bf gallery!

The best I've managed was at the jobcentre, feeling like I have let the side down! Where could I manage to make it extreme? I'm scared of heights, so that's out, I'm afraid.

Brilliant article. Absilutley brilliant. I have ticked off every phrase on my breastfeeding bingo card.

I breastfed ds while surrounded by sharks. and dd in a directorate meeting :)

I have also breastfed a child while discussing with her (in between gulps) whether she is classified as a mammal

Feeling thoroughly inadequate now SPB. The sharks do count as extreme!

Bloody hell that article is ridiculose, I know I pop up on these threads occasionally but I have to say was BF till 3, was stopped by my mum because she wanted to I didn't if that makes any difference? Am hoping to BF my own child in September - no idea for how long I have a vague idea we will have stopped by the time they leave home . Which for me by the way was at 17 and I was totally self supporting by the time I was 18, earning my own money and paying my bills so total dependancy on mummy for life here then

Yeah ok the sharks were rays which apparently are a type of shark -who knew? And were in a tank, while I sat on a bench in the thoroughly safe sea life centre :o

But that version of the story doesn't sound so interesting :) lol at you trickle - total over dependent mummy's girl!

I can't even comment about this, it makes me froth at the mouth knowing that my DM reads this fucking ridiculous paper and believes it word for word.

I would expect nothing less from that misogynistic piece of shit paper.I still cant stop myself clicking on it and raising my bp! What a load of crap.

:o at sharks stealth! (are you still bfing DD btw? you were the person who convinced me that bfing a toddler was normal btw, when we were on the sep 09 thread! even if you didn't realise it! so thanks for that :o)

trying to think of other extreme places I've nursed. the mile high bfing club for nursing in a plane? in my wedding dress on my wedding day because I idiotically didn't marry pre-child? the back of an ambulance on the high street after silly toddler pulled a cup of hot chocolate over himself? so many places :o

:) wow thanks
Love those, well, apart from the amblance one obviously
I think breastfeeding should have its own "extremes"

breastfeeding on a bus
breastfeeding in a supermarket cafe
breastfeeding in front of your MIL (not mine I hasten to add)
and the ultimate...
breastfeeding in an office of the Daily Mail

Yes, still bf dd, most nights when I'm here, but DH puts her to bed at least 2 nights a week while I work away and she's fine. She's also going away with grandparents for a week this summer - I fear that might be he end :(

Do you know thinking about it it's not the kids that have a problem with boob attatchment is it - all those poor poor menz who need their 'sole property' back seem to have a bit more of an issue with it really and that's ok now??? Wierd boobs in that article are only bad when the woman is using them how she wants to, shock horror

Have you done it on a train?
Have you done it in a plane?
Would you do it in a box?
Would you do it with a fox?

at SecondRow

^?It?s fine when my wife is breast-feeding the baby, but when my son starts to suckle at her breast I simply can?t look.

?I hate it when he lifts up his mum?s top and bra so he can feed. To me, it?s a massive invasion of personal space.?^

It is deeply revealing that Mr. Annoymous, who is only happy to mouth off about his wife's and son's full term breastfeeding relationship behind their backs, considers his son accessing his wife's breasts for a feed to be invading personal space - presumably his as he says to me. If I was his wife I'd be disturbed that he considered access of a nursing child to my breast an invasion of his personal space, and I'd be making sure that he ceased to have access to my body altogether. (Luckily, my DH wouldn't speak to that paper if they promised him a fortune, and we don't have two children, so it isn't him)

There's a load of deeply misogynistic rubbish in the article the website the whole Daily Fail output.

Also impressed by how they must find vegan commentators when they specify that breastfeeding is not nutritionally beneficial after 3 years... not an argument which settles easily with those who drink milk from a cow.

Didn't bother to read the comments. Prefer the ones on here

ooh i have me bfing DS1 beside a tank of very small sharks too.

most recently i fed baby DS2 while standing up in a really big crowd while waiting for a Disneyland parade. Well we had to get a good spot to see it.

i have also bf in front of MIL, FIL and my own family too this time.

I'm on my phone so can't click on the link. this is probably a good thing as it may cause frothing.

DS2 is 15 months and with a bit of catsbum face from some people I'm still BF. I am not planning to stop yet. Why would I? DH has no objection either. He realises, shock, that feeding the baby is what breasts are there for. He likes to see DS all comfy and snuggling up for a feed. I too find the DM to be very anti BF and am surprised they get away with it given the drive to promote BF in general. Imagine if they did for example a load of articles to promote smoking (or any other propaganda which goes against current advice).