ok, similarly to many many babies who have been breastfed and survived, my ds is now 9 months and doing well. breastfeeding is not an issue for me it is just how i feed my child. i dont flaunt it, i dont hide it it just happens without comment being passed. and that is the way i like it. there shouldnt need to be any comments. it is normal.
so my mum had gone for quite a few months (thankfully) without feeling the need to point out it's cons and i thought she had maybe realised that just because it's not what she did, that doesnt mean it's wrong for us. then last week, i took ds to gp as he had his 7th high temp in a month (3rd day of high temp) and the gp said he was fine, babies can get high temps quite often because they havent the same immunity as adults. so relayed this conversation to my mum and what did she say? no, it wasn't "glad he's ok" or "you did the right thing taking him" or anything like that. she said "what, even though he is a breastfed baby?" but in a fake shock sort of a way with a satisfied smirk on her face.
yes mum, this does indeed prove that breastfeeding is wrong and that all women who do it are risking their child's health.
why can she not just leave it? surely she has enough going on in her life that she doesn't need to create entertainment out of belittling my choices.
i do love my mum but fgs woman just let it go.