Bet the Daily Mail readers are all up in arms about this article!

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not at all sure abotu the

"She injected her germs into me while my body made the antibodies she needed and fed them back to her. "

odd sceince

Bingo! Does Anne-Marie from Coventry win a life-membership of La Leche League for being the first to say bitty?

LOLOL

"It's not natural!"

But feeding your child milk designed for another species is...

it obviously works for her.

The Daily Mail is, funnily enough, always very supportive of breastfeeding.

If you'd read the comments regarding the article, you would have seen that the response was mixed.

I fail to see how 'Daily Mail readers' en masse would take a hard line view on this.

Unlike most DM readers, judging by the comments.

She isn't a mumsnetter. She has her own parenting website. There is a link to it at the bottom of the page. It similar in someways to mumsnet, but you have to pay a £10 a year subscription to subscribe. It is designed for mums who are heavily into attachment parenting.

I used to post on that site, but I found it too weird and extreme for me. It is also very cliquely and frankly its more fun posting on mumsnet.

That article is not representative of women who do extended breastfeeding.

Incidently my son did have most of his milk teeth when I weaned him. He only ever bit me once and I ended the feed sharpish!

He quickly learnt that biting was a BAD idea. Breastfeeding a child with teeth is not really an issue for a lot of extended feeders,

Personaly-not for me (says she who didn't produce a single drop of milk)-find it a bit odd but she is obviously happy with it

Emkana, do you think, if this article was in The Guardian (for instance), the responses would have been any different?

well I read the comments (though I wish I hadn't)
and there were 48 (possibly 49) negative - one I didn't really understand
and 25 positive

if you're interested

Desi, yes I do.
I don't think that a Guardian article would include comments calling this woman weird, nauseating, psychologically damaged, and a pervert, among other things
imo

Oh dear I couldn't resist reading the comments either. It really is depressing how many people seem to think their narrow-minded censorious comments are self-evident truths.

Responses would DEFINITELY have been different on the Guardian talkboard Desi.

god I am deeply depressed by that.

I am a DM reader! I have to say that their articles regarding birth and bf'ing are on the whole well written and researched. They usually have the NHS, NCT and Royal College of MW's all commenting on the topic of the article.

Anyway ........ some of those comments make me so sad. It seems some people don't even have any humility (live and let live, and each to their own etc) nevermind common sense and intelligence

Really? So, it's the Daily Mail and that's why.

Fark me, you do take this Daily Mail thing a bit far, don't you.

I had to stop reading the comments. It makes me really sad that people could see breastfeeding as "gross" or "weird."

But that me and DS are still going! 7 mo and no end in sight.

Ooh these bigoted fools really piss me off, kids with teeth don't need nursing. BOLLOCKS! DD had four teeth by 16 weeks.

And what is this bollocks about it being disgusting/inappropriate??? What prurient people to think a natural bodily function is disgusting. GAH!

You see, this is why I shouldn't read anything in the Mail (mind you MiL takes it as gospel!)

ILs are avid DM readers

they are coming to stay tomorrow

i await questions about when i think i will stop bfing ds2...

no, it's not because they read the DM.
it is just co-incidence
the fact that two thirds of the comments are not only negative but deeply offensive and judgemental and just plain stupid and ignorant is just really sad making.
not surprising, but sad making.

Misogny??

Most of the anti-extended bf comments were made by women.