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

[waitingtobloom]

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?

[phdlife]

oh dear god this thread has made me pmsl and in equal parts

no really I am just utterly boggled. and a touch that our culture is so technologised.

[TinkerBellesMum]

I'd forgotten about the "Human food" incident, thanks for linking that I'm loving this thread.

During a three day nurse-in "she's using you as a human dummy" I love that phrase!

"Who wants to just drink tea all day everyday?" Actually I'm sure Mum lives on tea and Tink is a bigger tea belly (as she calls it) than Mum! But I always thought that milk was flavoured with what I eat so I'm sure she's getting more interesting things to "eat" than tea, like curry! Sadly read on here a few times.

"I had to stop feeding your dad when he was two weeks old. I was feeding him in a thunder storm and he got scared and never took it again"

[barbarianoftheuniverse]

Stealthpb ds had colic. HV was referring to supposed build up of pesticides, heavy metals etc in fat tissue. Never knew if she was right.

[SamJohnsMum]

I am always amused when people ask "are you still feeding him?". I know they just don't want to say the word "breast", but I always want to reply"no, he's a bit chubby so we thought he could go on slimfast for a while!"

As a charity ball a few months ago, we ran out of cream for the coffees after the meal and one bloke (actually a friend!!) leaned across with the jug and said "can you fill us up here?"!!

[TinkerBellesMum]

SamJohnsMum sounds like he's been watching too much Little Britain!

[willthisdo]

My sister asked my aunt "which boob had milk and which one was orange juice?" whilst she was feeding my DCousin. DSis was 4 at the time and hasn't been allowed to forget it since. (She's now 26)

[lyra41]

An old man in the Debenhams cafe walking past and hearing my ds's "yummy noises" that he always makes when feeding, "he knows what he likes doesn't he? I wouldn't mind some myself!!"

[oopsacoconut]

I was told that I shouldn't BF my DD as formula contained all the nutrients my DD needed as scientists had studied it for years! and when my baby got malnourished I would know that scientists knew better than me.

[Caz10]

twat colleague at work asked in the summer if I would be stopping feeding dd soon "because you wouldn't want to be doing that in the warmer weather would you? eeeurgh"

I think she thought my milk might go off in the sun?!

[TheNinkynork]

lyra41 your comment reminded me of one I'm sure I read on here a few months ago.

The lady was feeding her DC on a bus when a kindly old man who clearly thought the baby was sleeping said, "Oh that looks nice. I'm going to have a bit of that myself when I get home"

[stretchmarkqueen]

When discussing bf and peoples ignorance of it with a friend, I said to her that someone had once told me I had to make sure I drank lots of milk to make milk! The friend then responded with, "Ha yes! Everyone knows that milk is made from drinking water!"

[stretchmarkqueen]

Also, in sainsbury's, when telling DD2 that Ds needed some booby milk so we had to hurry up, she shouted out, "no mummy, it's breastmilk!!"

[Jacksmama]

Going through security at the airport, on our way to my parents' (a 5 hour flight away). My diaper bag is going through the scanner. The security guard (who looks about twelve) rummages through it, appears puzzled, asks (pointing to DS), "where is his food?"

Me: "I'm nursing him."
Guard: "So what does he eat?"



Me: "Breast milk... ??!?"

(Pause.)

Guard: "Sooooo... where is it?"


Me: (very slowly and distinctly) "In... my... breasts...you freakin moron!!!"

Guard looks horrified, waves me through security...

[MouseMate]

My adorable DNephew was 8 when my dd was born. He was fascinated by me breastfeeding so after clearing it with his mum I showed him what I was doing, how the milk came out etc.

The first thing he said was 'Oh its like a litter of puppies'

Then later on, totally randomly in a room full of relatives 'Oh MouseMate, How does it feel to be rearing your own child?'

[stretchmarkqueen]

Jacksmama!!! That's soooo funny!!

[Jacksmama]

Honestly, I PMSL all the way to my parents'... for days after, my mum and I started laughing when one of us said "soooo... where is it?"

Another hilarious comment from someone who'd just finished admiring the sturdy size of my DS (23 lbs, 29 inches at 9 months), when he started nuzzling my shirt and I popped him on for a snack: "Oh, you're still nursing?" "Yes, he's still pretty much exclusively breast-fed, he's not too keen on solids."
(In horrified accents) "Oh my goodness, you must start feeding him rice cereal or he'll starve!!!"
Errrmm... and a minute ago he was clearly thriving...??!?

[IwishIwasamermaid]

My MIL insists that I drink a chicken stock cube dissolved in a glass of boiling water so that my milk is good and full of potassium

Currently I'm refusing to go to Germany to visit them as she tries to force me to drink it all the time.

[Miyazaki]

visiting friend of dd1 stared at me feeding dd2 for a very long time (very closely) while I tried to be terribly cool.

She then turned to dd1 and said, deadpan.

Your sister is sucking on your mum's tit

[CherryChoc]

When DS was 2 weeks old we had a little gathering at MIL's so the extended family could meet him properly. MIL kept offering me her bedroom to feed in, I thought at the time she meant she didn't want to see me feed so I decided to go into the conservatory instead. This was great fun as I could hear them all discussing me and they didn't realise. MIL was commenting to her MIL "Well, it takes a lot of patience, doesn't it. You have to be a certain kind of person." (To breastfeed)

[Maria2007]

Great thread; i'm glad I found it today because I had a comment today (which upset me). My cousin (who I'm not close to) called to see how we're doing. We chatted a bit about da being a crap sleeper; I made a comment along the lines of "he's bf so he probably still needs to feed at 4 am". She then seemed shocked:
Her: "are you still bf him at 6 months"?!
Me: "eeerrrmmm.....yesss?"
Her: "you do know he's had whatever's good about breastmilk in the first 2 months? You do know you're only doing it for yourself now? The only thing you're doing is exhaust yourself"! (note the paradox in the last 2 sentences).
At that point I felt at a loss for words. So I just changed the subject. I just wish wish wish that I could have responded in a good way... But I never can! (& I've had many comments of this kind from relatives)...

[Maria2007]

(ds being a crap sleeper obviously)

[VotePedro]

I was feeding DS in front of a German friend of mine and she said, with intense curiosity, "Does it feel like lots of little tadpoles nibbling at you?" er well not unlike that now you mention it.

[GreenMonkies]

"doesn't she eat solid food?"

this is the stupidest thing people ask when they find out my DD's still nurse (they are now 5½ and 2½)and you'd be amazed at how many people ask it!!

[blueshoes]

I had dd around the time my friend had her ds, both first children.

She mentioned that boy babies can get really obsessed with the boob. I thought she was mad confusing the need of babies to suckle with the sexuality of a grown male.

The I got ds - and he IS obsessed with the boob, lol.