The bitty sketch

[hunkermunker]

Why should I mind it? I'm not breastfeeding a 30-ish man, I'm breastfeeding a child.

If anyone said anything to me (they haven't - yet, except for a stupid GP who couldn't understand why I'd breastfed past 6 months, if at all!), I'd smile witheringly and ask them whether DS was in fact 30 and I'd not noticed.

DS is a child, David Walliams is a big man. Nobody would still be nursing a 30-year-old, so why the fuss?

Flum, I don't wapple my tits anywhere and if I put a pashmina over DS's head, he'd draw FAR more attention to us than without! Nobody sees anything when I feed DS

'wappling one's tits' lol
Another delightful turn of phrase to add to my ever expanding repertoire..

Must be the only person not to have seen the 'bityy' sketch.
Don't think they'd 'get' LB in Turkey!

And now I'm going to practice wappling 'cos ds has woken up.)

Caligula . I can think of a good few people who need to put a pashmina over their heads whilst feeding and dd2 isn't one of them!

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us brazen hussies !

Maybe the Club 18-30 reps should be supplied with pashminas for use on the beaches, if breasts are so repulsive. And perhaps Page Three girls should have them when they pose topless?

Exactly - its an absolute joke that its ok to have topless women in national papers, thousands of brits bathing topless all over the world, hundreds of fhm type magazines showing semi-naked women sprawled all over the place but feed a child!! My god!! Lock them up!!

We women really do need to get more militant.

As for little britain - I thought the point was poking fun at people who have these hang ups but I may well have missed it. [confused emoticon]

not posted here before sohope you don't mind. 2 points really.
1, i was doing some research on extended breastfeeding on an american site and they adviced that mums and littleuns come up with a code word to signal their want for a feed so that mum wouldn't get to embaressed and that ideally you should feed your infant before (e.g. in the car)joining the 'social occasion' so as not to cause offence. i found this very strange advice from a site that was meant to be encouraging extended feeding. as it is i intend to carry on feeding as long as dd is interested and have never had a negative comment just jealous looks from other babes. though living in london there are far stranger things to look at than me bfing. so far have parents evening, PTA agm and The Festival Hall at the top of my list of places i have bf and am very jealous of my friend who has 'while being interviewed by CID' on hers. lol

2, i think the bitty sketch says more about men than it does about bf mothers, about how in a general sense they are unable to take responsibility for their own needs and need a mother or mother substitute to constantly reassure and provide.

that's just my opinion though, no offence intended.

Hi rumplestiltskin - agree with you (and am fascinated by "While being interviewed by CID" as a breastfeeding location - lol!)

I agree becky - we need to get more militant, I am absolutely sick of the attitude that FHM and Nuts are just having a bit of fun whereas bfeeding a baby (let alone a toddler!) is something that should be hidden away. I'm really fearful of the pressure that our dds will come under to conform to some twisted idea of ideal body, and the value they will put on the fact that they are female given that our society seems so accepting of the ideas that breasts are first and foremost men's playthings that can also be used occasionally for nursing.