Anyone see the psychotic bfeeding story on Criminal Minds?

[Greedygirl]

Children aged 5/6 were going missing and it turned out that a woman who had had her baby taken away from her was taking them and she thought they were her baby and she was bfeeding them.

I can't decide whether it is all too silly to worry about or if it is another example of bfeeding being made to seem weird. Must stop looking so deeply into everything!

Just wondered if anyone else had seen it and any thoughts?

Just me then!

Well if the telly was full of normal examples of bf happening then yes, it would be a bit OTT but it isn't we are hairy ankled smug hippies who must be ostracised and shunned at all opportunities

I saw it, and I didn;t see it as psychotic breastfeeding, just that it made sense with the psychotic woman being the kidnapper ad howthey explain the good nourishment in the boys taken while their tummy and bowel being empty of food.

It was not meant (IMVHO) as a bad-breastfeeding story.

do not forget, there are such dreadful extremes in all types of societies, breastfeeding is obviously going to crop up occasionally in psychotic story lines

didn't see it, but it's a bit unlikely that a 5/6yr old would breastfeed from a strange woman isn't it????? or was she starving them?

i think it is making breastfeeding seem a bit werid.
crazy breastfeeding kidnapper who feeds 6 yr old children? at least, that's how some people will see it

she was starving them, and forcing them to breastfeed, due to her having had her baby taken away from her as a teeny (due to her being psychotic!).

I think, TBH, they used the breastfeeding aspect of it to show proof of the children being nourished well, even tho there was no traces of food in their systems.

it isn;t exactly plausible to US as we are not psychotic and we don;t think like that, but it may well happen.

or not......I find it a little far fetched too.

the thing is tho, it is fiction, marketed as fiction, and the underlying message about the breastmilk is that it is perfect nourishment (even if the outside message was one of true insanity!)

agree about the breastmilk being used as perfect nourishment then.

but still think that the vast majority of viewers are just gonna think "crazy breastfeeder"

but then, unless you have ahd a child, most people do think that don;t they.

or do I just know of a lot of crazy people???

that said, most of the time, shows like that are only watched by fans of the show anyway, so will understand the underlying message.

tis not as tho it is on eastenders after all

Yes agree at least breast milk portrayed as perfect nourishment but still think in absence of lots of positive stories/images of bfeeding this is another example of bfeeding being viewed as a little bit odd and "out there". Oh I don't know what I think; pass the wine giveusabreak!

Thanks for reminding me to shave my legs giveusabreak. My ankles are pretty hairy at the mo.