Unofficial reasons for breastfeeding - lighthearted

[VeloWoman]

I though we could make a list of all the reasons why breastfeeding is awesome once you get the hang of it that they don't tell you at nct etc.

1 you can play candy crush and breastfeed simultaneously

2 you have a good excuse to eat more cake

3 you can breastfeed and post in mn at the same time

Feel free to add!

You can stick a hat on your baby that looks like a boob and enjoy the shocked double takes

Definitely being able to sit down and have somebody else doing all of the running around. 'I'm so sorry I can't get up. Please help yourself to a cup of tea/ the vaccuum cleaner/washing the dishes etc.'

Cake absolutely!

You can be all 'sigh, I have to feed the baby again...'

While settling down in the comfiest part of the sofa with control of the TV remote and demanding cups of tea and food from anyone who walks past.

DS was a monster cluster-feeder and one weekend was spent with me almost permanently on the sofa with DP running about for me.

Except that actually DS was just asleep at the boob and I was feeling too lazy to do anything that day

I caught up on so many TV shows that I hadn't managed to watch up until that point, whilst bfeeding DS. Series after series of them!

I also adored my DS falling asleep on my lap after a bfeed - don't tell anyone, but he had the majority of his naps on me from 0 till 9 months.

I'm too lazy to sit up at night

Because you don't have to be faffed with all of that blardy sterilising.

Because it makes days out easy - you don't have to lug bottles and milk with you and find a way to warm it up, etc etc.

Because dh has to do everything else!

Like Shergar, DH sometimes has to do tea because I'm busy feeding the baby

Because I'm crap at sterilising and probably would have poisoned the baby.

Because I'm tight and it's free.

But definitely and most importantly it was a free pass to sit down and watch tv whenever I wanted!

Because I've never had to learn how to make up formula. Seems a bit complicated to me!

Because I'm as lazy as you get, and it's far less faff!

I got hooked on Watercolour Challenge back in thse days.

My honest genuine main reason for bf is I absolutely will NOT get out of bed at night. No way. Not for anyone. I am also v lazy and disorganised and couldn't possibly be trusted to remember all the stuff about bottle feeding. And I am tight

I read so many novels on maternity leave. So many.

See my username!

I would never had got out of the house is I had to take anything more than a baby, a couple of nappies and some wipes!

Yes to baby in one hand and kindle/phone in the other. And "I'm feeding and can't get up, can you get me a cup of tea/sandwich/cake/anything else I can think off. And I liked the night feeds of put baby on boob rather than go downstairs, make bottle, feed baby, wash out bottle. I'm very very lazy.

Oh yes, lying down and sometimes sleeping at night feeds is brilliant!

Yy to "oh dear, I have to sit on the sofa and feed the baby, please take care of xyz......"

You can do it lying down!
Plus you don't have to get out of bed to do it - we have a sidecar cot so I just slide DS over, feed, then slide him back. All without even sitting up or getting cold with the covers off :)

Reading/watching TV, good way to lose the baby weight, doesn't cost anything and no sterilizing would be my reasons.
I always get tea in bed too because I'm too busy feeding!

Awesome!

I have discovered another one, you can sit at the table and do craft with older dc while breastfeeding (the baby now has glitter on his head).

Getting on a plane for a 36 hour journey without having to worry about how baby will be fed.

Bonus: loads of extra help from stewardesses and watching them give DH dirty looks because they thought he wasn't helping he was, he was in charge of 4yo DD1, who morphed into an angel child for the duration

Downside: baby reverted to newborn again and fed every hour for the whole 36 hours!

"There are three reasons for breast-feeding: the milk is always at the right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can't get it."
Irena Chalmers

Plus for me it was the perfect excuse for my interfering in laws not to be able to take my babies out for hours on end.

When I get overwhelmed in the evenings with the kids and dinner etc I say that the baby is unsettled and can't feed in this chaos, I close the bedroom door, plump the cushions, feet up, open MN on tablet and put the world to right. Or read a book. Bliss.
I love how sleepy it makes them, and how they snooze with the milky stuff dribbling away.
The only downside of BF is feeding in public (not always easy/possible) and having to think about clothes (no dresses, no fitted shirts, etc) and buy BF bras. That is it.