Whats the strangest/most amusing/just plain bizarre comment you have had about breastfeeding?

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From friends/family/health professionals/ random people?

Mine has to be the doctor who suggested I should express and put it on my cornflakes. I didnt - I dont like cornflakes.

Any odd or amusing (at least in hindsight!) ones out there?

I'm sure I've said this before, but my MIL refers to bf as "that dirty habit" or "that third world thing" (apparently here in the "civilised" world as she calls it there's no need for bf now we have that lovely formula stuff).

Unfortunately she was unable to bf due to suffering - I swear this is true - "mastiftits" (I think she meant mastitis).

When ds1 was born she bought me a bottle of Milton fluid - to sterilise my nipples.

She can't understand why anyone would bf when they could be ironing underpants/rearranging their socks/hoovering the carpet in their garage (yes she does all of those things).

Apparently ds3 is "spoilt" because I "spend all day cuddling him or feeding him" (he's 5 weeks old for gods sakes!).

Isn't "mastifitis" something terriers get?

"it is against our policy to allow breastfeeding in the cafe." said by a Sainbury's staff manager.

I don't have anything to add to this thread because I struggled to bf both of my two so didn't last long, but PMSL at some of these. Although some of the comments form so called helath professionals are unbelievable and make me

Sophrosyne1 - yes I always imagine she had nipples arranged in rows like a bulldog ...

PMSL at 'human food' Priceless!

I've only really had one comment (so far), from a well-meaning but clearly mad stranger on the bus. she asked if he was 'on the bottle, i said no, breastfeeding; she said 'oh right, right...for now.' err, thanks total stranger!

When my son was 20 months he was not walking or talking. Infact he was refered to the community paediatrian.

I had a nasty health visitor say "I think its disgusting to breastfeed a child who is old enough to walking and talking."

I replied "Well, then its not a problem my son is neither walking or talking."

It makes me upset that a health profesional could say such a thing to a mother of a child with developmental problems. The fact it was a stupid breastfeeding comment was another issue.

At least our community paediatrian was far more pro breastfeeding. My son saw her at 23 months old and he asked for "boobie". It was noticed "had some speech" and the physio noticed he could move freely between positions while acrobatically nursing. Our community paediatrian also told me that many children round the world nursed at twice my son's age.

A midwife on the postnatal ward when ds was born used to equate all his feeds to whatever food he might have been having had he been fully weaned. When she came to see me in the morning she'd say "Ahh, just had his cornflakes has he?" and if he went for the other boob too she say "oh now he wants a pice of toast and marmalade too, he's hungry this morning!" When she came round in the afternoon to discharge me she said "Hungry again? Well you just give him a bun and I'll be back with your paperwork in a minute..."

It was very odd.

Broccoli that made me laugh.

Also to the mil who had "mastifitis" - perhaps where she went wrong was trying to feed a dog rather than a baby?

I would just love to tell my mil that yes, I am still bf dd2 at the grand "old" age of 15 months. She would be and very as of course bf is v embarrassing.

'just give him a bun', pmsl!

xx

'but how does the milk get in there [my breast]?' by my friends 11yo dsd

I often have small children asking me what dd2 is doing

Human food mine have pedigree chum

reallytired what an idiot
would have laughed if your DS had chosen that point to say his first words "Piss off you moron"
But I'm guessing
a) You brought him up with manners and
b) life's not like the movies
sigh

StealthPolarBear, my son had no speech due to being deaf. He probably couldn't hear the stupid health visitor.

Anyway he is bright, happy and health at nearly seven years old. I have no doult that breastfeeding has given him a fanastic immune system.

I'm not mamag at sainsburys cafe. I b/f in there last week, I blimming hope it's not company policy.

Greenlawn, what a vile woman, and RT that is despicable.
rofl all over again at the human food thing.

At a baby group, I remember as we watched a mother put her hungry squawking newborn to her breast. Another girl sighed and said 'That's the thing with bottle feeding. You can get the milk to them with no delay.'

Eh?????

I was expressing one night in front of my mother and held up the bottle to show her how it separates into 3 layers, with all the fatty stuff on the top - she said (completely seriously) - why don't you churn it to make butter.......

I've been told the Ribena thing too.

I complained.

I've also been told that after six months "you don't have to do that any more you know"

whomoved - that "humanfood" link is the funniest thing I've read in ages.

"Would you give him milk for a 32 year old cow?' -HV

My funniest one was my dad (an engineer) looking carefully at me expressing some milk with a battery pump, and then commenting, "Well, that looks pretty inefficient to me. You got two outputs and only one input". He had a point!

barbarian, i don't get that
ROFL at the engineer! Did you point out that a woman feeding twins was as close to 100% efficiency as possible

When I was feeding DS and he was about 9 months old his little friend of the same age toddled over and craned her neck to have a really good look!

"Oh, you don't want to do that! Give her the bottle and hold her well away from you while she drinks."

That was at the holding well away comment, not the bottle before I get (quite deservedly) pounced on!