Anyone else prepared to admit they actively wanted to bf in order to stick it to The Man!

[Penthesileia]

Of course, breast is best for my baby, and all.

But - anyone else read 'The Politics of Breastfeeding' and think: no damn evil corporation is going to take advantage of my need to feed my baby, dammit. Those lousy companies, still responsible for infant deaths in the developing world, ain't getting a penny of my cash.

Etc. Etc.

Breastfeeding was as much a political issue for me as it was a bonding and nurturing one. I'm not afraid to admit it!

In your face, The Man!

Oh, and I've never been able to find my cervix (I've been told it's in a funny place ).

lol anglepoise... like camelot? - oh no my mistake, thats a silly place...

GreenMonkies, I tried and tried and tried with everything going, but it always ended up with me having to slather on nasty steroid cream, and with agonised babies, so I had to give up. I have ordered a batch of Moltex for the new baby so hopefully that will be a good compromise.

Who is The Man?

giantkatestacks

I always like to think of it being in Belgium

The Man is that great phallocentric phenomenon, capitalism.

Ah, the Politics of Breastfeeding -- my mom and grandmom were heavily into the politics of it. March march march!

My dad was a journalist and apparently one wasn't supposed to take photos of women breastfeeding children without consent, so my dad took a photo of my mom breastfeeding me on some march and it was in the LA Times report on a Nestle protest

I have been constantly b/feeding or pregnant or both since May 2003. I am currently feeding my 12mnth old and due in July/august ish. It hasn't been intentional its just worked out that way. I have fed my children wherever I happened to be and haven't had too much grief really. The nastiest comment I ever had was from my own sister who told me I was "sick and disgusting" to still be feeding my dd no2 at 18months - she was on medication almost from birth and every time i cut out the feed she would get the squits, back on boob she was fine - If it meant my dd was happy and healthy what did it matter?

I always expected to get a complaint from a member of the public / coffee shop staff but i've been handed more unrequested glasses of water than complaints.

Instead I get the grief from my sister - funny old world!!

I spent a fortune with my 1st on washable nappies but she too reacted really badly to them. 24hrs back in disposables and she was fine 12hrs in washables she was raw - apparently it was a form of wet ecsema sorry can't spell tonite. I tried for ages but it just wasn't fair on her - then had same prob with the next 2. Was gutted as am v eco friendly normally and the nappies were so cute!!

I breast fed, because dh and I had split up, when I was pregnant, and that way he couldn't have dd over night.

ilovemydog

don't be embarrased, that is seriously cool - you are an icon!!!

Boffin your post made me laugh...of course you are right that co-op manager was a twit....but the plastic bag thing is shocking...luckily there seems to be change now...
in germany, you can actual leave your packing in the shop...or at least you used to be able to...would make the shopping trip longer, but would certainly keep your own bins free....I hate all that packaging, but sadly buying fresh from counter is just so expensive...and market not always an option, sigh...and over here, of course markets use a lot of plastic bags, anyway

OHMYGOD those cervix pictures.

It never occured to me not to breastfeed to be honest. I think I must be lucky that I've had some good role models. My mum breastfed my sister and me for about a year each. It's only now that I realise that it was probably quite unusual at the time. I was talking to a woman at my granny's funeral and it turns out that she had lived in the same street as my mum's family as a child and my granny had breastfed her when her own mother was too sick to do so. She had come along to pay her respects to the woman who had kept her alive.

It's only since being on MN that I've thought much more about the political side of it and it makes me determined to keep on bfing.

Well load that's sticking it to a man, if not the man.

Oh Aubergenie that's a truly heart-warming story!

I generally try and stick it to The Man wherever possible, and breastfeeding is something I've felt strongly about for years. Having read up before DS was born I'm even more politicized, am boycotting Nestle and feed my big baby anywhere. (Well, he's a tall 8month old, but I'm still waiting to be challenged! )

Have boycotted Nestle since the mid 9o's sh and I still miss Nestle crunch bars. Sigh.

[grin} treedelivery!

The devil does get all the best chocolate (I miss Munchies)

I fed my 19m and my 3m sons at the same time at the beach in the middle of the summer school holidays, because a) they were hungry and b) big, fat, hairy, dirty, middle finger to the man. Tandem feeding in public cracks me up, but still no comments... bring it on!

DH is the one who says 'can you do both in here' if we're in a cafe - I don't think it even occurs to him that someone else might have an opinion!

I've not read the book mentioned in OP - would like to - but I do try to avoid Nestle products and it was one of the reasons I was upset to have failed breastfeeding with my first baby and to be pushed into top ups with ds2 - I've managed to phase out the top ups again and hope the hospital won't try to make me restart.