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?

[slushy06]

I was trying to get out of the pool when my son started crying for food so I sat down and started bf him but was unable to close the cubicle door as pram was blocking it. Next thing I knew a school bus of about 40 11 year old girls come in spotted what I was doing and attempted to crowd into my cubicle to ask what I was doing and about 50 more questions. I didn't mind at all they were v polite but the teacher was mortified trying to shoe them out and said I'm not sure you should be showing them that.

[madameovary]

From my ex-p, when DD was abt 11 months:

"You're going to have to stop soon, otherwise it'll be bitty"

Twat.

[AlexandraPeppernose]

My mum told me that its important not to b/f for too long because babies need to get used to cows milk so they don't become intolerant. When I said that cows milk is used on cereal and in cooking in the first yr she shut up

[gussymooloo]

Love this thread!

My friend said "if you dont stop breast feeding soon you will be one of those disgusting mums"

DD is 15months old....

the amount of times people have said "she doesnt need breast milk now shes eating.."

[kitty4paws]

On the phone to British gas help line and ds is screaming away,

Me: "hold on a minute"

I latch DS on

Gas man ( sounds about 17 ): "Oh that's easier to talk, have you put him in another room ?"

Me : "uuummm nooo.. he's doing something else"

Gas man " What ?"

Me : "EEUUHGH ?!........ Sooooooo can I cancel the cheque then "

Me thinking , " most men pay good money for a phone converstaion like this !!"

Also another time I had dry eyes and the optician said it was down to BF, funny how I still had saliva, sweat, urine etc ???

[feralgirl]

The washing machine repair man came to my house just as DS was finishing his feed and he said, "Ooh great, my turn now!" and

Fortunately my best mate was there and she diffused the awkward silence with, "oi you, get in line, I'm next!"

[massivebump]

LOL what a fantastic thread some really funny comments & some absolutely unforgivable ones too. Having bf 2 babies and just waiting for 3rd baby to arrive here's my addition:

With first baby, my son, I had 2 family members say that I shouldn't really bf a baby boy or it's likely he'll turn out gay :-) (not that it'd bother me if he was, but what do these people think about!!). My dh was bf.

When my son was 4m old I suffered horrific back pain and ended up phoning nhs direct. The 'trained' nurse told me that I really shouldn't be bf by this age and it was obviously damaging my health & wouldn't I be better off giving up so I could have some proper pain killers!!

I also just read in a supernanny book (free on a mag) that people with inverted or flat nipples couldn't bf :-). As a breastfeeding peer supporter I'd have to disagree (also having rather flat nipples myself I'd have to disagree!). I've no problem with people giving up bf but to blame it on something that's just not true really annoys me!

Thanks for this entertaining thread

[Scaredycat3000]

Being told at a family party, whilst b/f my 6 week old, by my SIL mother at a family party that I,
"should feed for 3 min on each breast" gave in trying to explain about for milk and hind milk. Then that I should,
"have a drink half an hour before feeding as I would feel the drink being turned to milk"

[mrsrawlinson]

DH and I were in a restaurant having Sunday dinner with PILs when DTs were tiny. Not wishing to whip my boobs out at the table and risk them causing a scene, I told them I was just going out to the car to feed the babies and FIL piped up, "Oh no, you're not going to feed them there are you? Someone might see! Go and do it in the toilet instead". Fortunately I did have the presence of mind to ask him whether he planned to eat his dinner in the gents' though, which shut him up nicely.

[naturalblonde]

A friend of my dh is a bit freaked out by breast feeding. When he visited the other day he was sat on the sofa, I was sat on the floor by the side of him feeding dd, and he leant over and tried to pull her head away to get a better look

My mum told be that I should stop bfing dd as I was only doing it for myself not for her benefit - she's only 8 months, and to hurry up and put her on a bottle so that she can take her out for the day.

[Gsmom]

my gp when he heard that i was still bf ds at 18 months said "the mommy cow said to the baby cow fuck off!"

[whomovedmychocolate]

Original health visitor has now retired. New health visitor is extremely posh and clearly feels quite out of her depth in rural practice with country ways.

Anyway, took DD 2.7 and DS 11 months to be weighed (for a laugh they are both giants!) and she was surprised I was still nursing DD. She said to DD 'so don't you drink moo cow milk then'.

DD replies 'of course I drink cow milk but mummy milk is nicer and better than me. I'm not a cow I'm a wooman . Are you a cow?'

[whomovedmychocolate]

better for me (see how my DD has better speech than I have typing skills

[spiderlight]

I was on the phone to a (childless) friend the other day when my 2yo son came up and asked very loudly for 'more mambo!'
Friend - What's mambo??
Me - It's his word for breastfeeding
Friend - Oh my lord....if he's old enough to ask for it, he's old enough to be told that it's in the fridge!
(This was the same friend who came round while he was tucking into a plate of pasta at 15 months and went 'wow - is he on solids already?!'

And of course there's my good old Health Visitor. At his 18 month check...
HV, very matter-of-factly - So obviously you're not still breastfeeding him...
Me - Actually, yes, he's having about five feeds a day and sometimes one at night
HV - Oh, so you're one of those mothers....

[oneopinionatedmother]

had to laugh

my MIL watching me struggle to get my baby to latch

"what is wrong with that left breast!"

and she is pro-bf!

some of the comments from professionals

In Sainsburys defence, they are as an organisation pro-bf (quakerish etc) that manager was just being a t'sser.

[1stMrsF]

My MIL keeps asking whilst I'm feeding 'Is she doing anything?' - if the poor DTs take even a moment's pause to breathe she's convinced they've gone to sleep and should be whipped off. She's also constantly 'telling' them that they 'can't possibly be hungry' when they cry to be fed anything less than 4 hours since last feed - they are 8 weeks!

[dawntigga]

Sunday, DP's partner asked if I'd ever tried ds with a bottle. I asked why the question as it foxed me a bit, he said he thought I am bf'ing as ds won't take a bottle. I managed not to look shocked and gently pointed out the benefits of bf'ing and that I don't want to use a bottle but everyone needs to come to their own decision.

Considering I can't stand him I think I did very well.

dxx

[KingRolo]

My MIL didn't give 8mo dd any of the expressed milk I left when she looked after her for a few hours because, apparently, after 6 months 'it's just a drink' and water will do just as well.

[GetOrfMoiLand]

laughing at some of these, especially the MNers mum who suggested that she churn some expressed breastmilk and turn it into butter. Bless her

Shocking the level of creap advice from HVs. Actually, not that shocking at all thinking about the HVs I have known.

I almost longed for someone to say something to me when I was bf my daughter, I fed her all over the place in public. Nobody ever said anything, though I got some lovely approving smiles from several old dears.

[sarahrhianna]

i was at a wedding a few weeks ago and the photographer approached and asked if he could take a photo. i said i would rather he didn't, to which he looked puzzled so i then had to go on and explain that i was in the middle of breastfeeding my son and don't think that the happy couple would appreciate a photo of my left breast!

he was mortified and avoided me for the rest of the day, probably thought i was thinking he was some kind of perve!
at least it shows i am discrete!

[Comewhinewithme]

@ some of these posts.

I have been bf dd for 5 weeks now and all is going ok but my SIL is horrified by it .

She won't look at me if I am bf although the first time she didn't realise until my friend mentioned I was actually feeding DD .

She has also pointed out that I shouldn't really be feeding my dd myself because if I wear make up it will all seep into my boobs and poison dd .

DD got her revenge last week by throwing up all over her ...I would pay to see her face again as the milk hit her arm .

[Yoya]

i was having trouble breastfeeding my ds, crying a lot during feeds, and mil suggested that perhaps my milk was off... told me to express before and after each feed to ensure that the milk stayed fresh.

[phdlife]

every time I have to feed dd, FIL shouts, "man the pumps, phd!"

not sure what that's all about...

[gingertoo]

My mum said 'I'm sorry, but it turns my stomach' the first time I bfed in front of her

On a lighter note, Dh's great auntie was most shocked that I had gone back to doing exercise while still bfing ds3 - 'your milk will curdle'