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!

mine is truly terrible, because I cant stand the crying and whingeing while waiting for a bottle to heat up it drives me round the bend.

You get a bunch of extra Weight Watchers points (although I still end up eating too much).

Great excuse to sit down and play on the iPhone.

Plus there is nothing better than the snuggle from a warm, happy, sleepy baby while they eat.

Yes to not getting out of bed in the middle of the night.

Yes to being so unorganized I would have never gone anywhere if I had to remember milk.

Yes to sitting on sofa all evening while dp washed up and brought me cake and drinks.

Also I know it's very shallow but for 4 glorious years I had the kind of breasts that my teenage self dreamt of :)

Because it's one in the eye for the big companies and all their "You can't possibly function as a parent and will mess up your child forever unless you buy this massively over-priced plastic tat"

Brand new baby sucks ... you FEEL that saggy pseudo bump start to shrink. Every latch on is 100 sit ups I won't have to do in future...

Also when I walk round my house bra-less in a onesie, eating and ignoring hoovering normally - the parents despair. Apparently not what 30+ women do. Apply small naked baby and I'm a paragon of virtue.

yes you get all the cuddles to yourself when everyone wants to take him away from you!

and everyone actively encourages you to eat more cake.

Have basically spent the last 6 months chain eating cake and large pouches of chocolate. But stood on the scales this morning and weigh less than I did before getting pregnant

Lally that isn't trivial! That would drive me insane!

Love not getting up in the night.
And when they are upset and only I can settle them with booby,my dd is 17 months and booby works everytime for everything, hurt herself,tired,unwell,or when I just need a break and sit down.
Takes far too long to make up bottles and when going out for the day you need a separate bag to put them all. Too much work when babes can have boob when ever she wants it aswell.

Because you can have whole day out in town/ visiting friends/ lunch without
having to plan feeds and lug loads of stuff about.

So easy and convenient having milk on tap at the perfect temperature.

I am in no way coherent enough during the night when I've had naff all sleep, to make up a bottle and not either poison the baby, make a hideous mess or somehow seriously injure myself!

With the others on the excuse to be lazy. And also I can sleep and feed simultaneously meaning I'm not as sleep deprived as other new mums I know.

Oh and it also cured my insomnia. Couldn't sleep for years before giving birth, as soon as i put a baby on my boob, zzzzzzz, beautiful sleep

As soon as she stopped bf stupid insomnia came back! Nature's sedative...

It is known in our house as the instant mute button!! Whatever the issue, boob mutes babies

Realise this doesn't apply to everyone, but no periods for over 2 years due to pg & bfing. Which for me meant no spots!

(Ok, there is the disadvantage of delaying getting on with TTC but they're back now...)

To piss off the MIL cos she had this vision of taking my child from me in company and pretending she did everything for us ??
DD not going away overnight until it really suited us and not just cos someone else wanted to hop back 30 years and play mommy

Cause I'm too lazy to sterilse bottles.

So I can sit with a baby slumped on my lap, asleep, enabling me to watch telly whilst DH runs about looking after the older kids.

But when said baby needs rocking or holding, in the dead of night, being able to pass
her to DH as 'she can smell the milk.'

I've been thinking about ditching it but this thread is making me think again!

Agree it's the lazy woman's ideal! And never having to hear my babies crying while waiting for a feed. Never really occurred to me till I was chatting to my SIL about night feeds (we had babies within a few days of each other and she ff) and she said, isn't it awful listening to the crying in the night while you get everything ready. She was shocked when I said mine didn't cry. but she didn't, she just woke up, snuffled, got latched on and that was it.

The formula milk would be downstairs IN THE NIGHT

I always maintained that I bf because I was tightfisted and lazy.

I was horrified at the cost of formula. And the sheer faff of making feeds up. Whereas I just lazed half naked on the sofa demanding food and drinks. Awesome.

Yes to having a neat excuse to get baby back if you're fed up with someone else holding them e.g. A well-meaning relative is failing to comfort grizzling baby, instead of saying "he wants his mummy!" it's "oh he must be hungry" - and of course mummy is the only one who can feed him :)

Feeling like you have a special superpower that no-one else has - the unique ability to nourish and comfort your baby with nothing but your jugs...

Blaming it on the baby if you don't fancy going somewhere without the baby despite everyone telling you how important it is to leave baby behind sometimes...

Getting lots of compliments about your ceiling lights from visiting males ??