Colleague's view of breastfeeding

[unknownrebelbang]

Apparently, the thought of doing it makes her toes curl, she informed me recently.

Now, before anyone flames her, I have to say she is a genuine, lovely person, but is not maternal at all and has no children. She hadn't really thought about it in any depth.

I was quite shocked and said so, but we had a general (goodnatured) conversation about breastfeeding (I bf my three for a fair while) and thought no more of it.

Anyway, she went home and had a discussion with her mum about it, mum told her basically she was talking rot, lol. (good ole mum).

Colleague is late 50s, and she really is lovely.

Before I had dd the thought of breastfeeding appalled me, I actually had nightmares about it, woke up in a cold sweat during pregnancy. Dd was bottlefed from birth.

Afterwards I began to have second thoughts, started to develop some maternal feelings and also began to realise the way I was brought up had a bearing on how I felt. Alongside some debriefing I finally felt able to try breastfeeding my second child.

Glad to read I'm not the only one who can't bear the thought of bfeeding, I knew I wasn't the only strange one ! Thankfully there are other ways to bond with baby, which I did. It helped me that I made up my mind before birth not to bf and could concentrate on bonding etc without beating myself up over it.

The thought of it used to make my toes curl too. Then I had dc s and just got on wiht it Although didn't really love it till my second child was about 10 months old.

I've always been squeamish about having my nipples touched but strangely enough still wanted to bf. When I was pg with dd1 I spoke to the gp who prescribed Kamillosan cream & said to apply twice a day til baby arrived to toughen up my nips and it worked - bf her for 6 months with no probs. Couldn't bf dd2 or dd3 sadly but ds is 7 months & still getting as much boob as he wants

HMHB great name and well done 'the lads', Kathy love that Prof!