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Anonymous wrote:Why do people care so much about someone else's breastfeeding or bottle-feeding?

Seriously. I find this obsession with others peoples boobs rather bizarre.

I don't care what you do at home. It's the 30 pound toddler attached to your chest in a restaurant that I find annoying and gross.

Ding Ding Ding - WINNER!

Now PLEASE let this thread die.

More like ding-dong.

Really? You find extended nursing "annoying and gross"? How about interracial marriages? Or other people's religious beliefs? Wearing headscarves in public? Slovenly dressers? Cats? Dogs? People with frizzy hair? Children who talk too loud? What, oh wise one, is not annoying and gross and is on the approved list of things that are ok to do/be/like?

Seriously, I understand you are intolerant of all but the tiny slice of life you personally have lived and approve of, but get over yourself. That lady in the restaurant rightfully doesn't give a shit if you find her life choices "annoying and gross".

Remember a little thing called freedom? That founding principle of our country that is integral to everything we chose to become as a nation? Well, she has the freedom to make choices for herself and her child, and you have the freedom to turn your prude eyes away.

You are an idiot. What is your point here exactly because none of these topics are in any way shape of form related to breastfeeding a 30 pound 4 year old in public. Please get a hobby, a life of your own and give your preschooler a cup. Let it go already.

Anonymous wrote:This! Love Little Britian!!

LMAO!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do people care so much about someone else's breastfeeding or bottle-feeding?

Seriously. I find this obsession with others peoples boobs rather bizarre.

I don't care what you do at home. It's the 30 pound toddler attached to your chest in a restaurant that I find annoying and gross.

OK, so it's alright to do it at home, and also their responsibility to worry about what may offend you. Got it.

Generally, extended nursers don't do it in public because it's usually an at-home/relaxing/bedtime routine. How often do you run into people nursing a 3 or 4 year old in a restaurant? Seriously, I'd like to know how many times you've encountered it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do people care so much about someone else's breastfeeding or bottle-feeding?

Seriously. I find this obsession with others peoples boobs rather bizarre.

I don't care what you do at home. It's the 30 pound toddler attached to your chest in a restaurant that I find annoying and gross.

Ding Ding Ding - WINNER!

Now PLEASE let this thread die.

More like ding-dong.

Really? You find extended nursing "annoying and gross"? How about interracial marriages? Or other people's religious beliefs? Wearing headscarves in public? Slovenly dressers? Cats? Dogs? People with frizzy hair? Children who talk too loud? What, oh wise one, is not annoying and gross and is on the approved list of things that are ok to do/be/like?

Seriously, I understand you are intolerant of all but the tiny slice of life you personally have lived and approve of, but get over yourself. That lady in the restaurant rightfully doesn't give a shit if you find her life choices "annoying and gross".

Remember a little thing called freedom? That founding principle of our country that is integral to everything we chose to become as a nation? Well, she has the freedom to make choices for herself and her child, and you have the freedom to turn your prude eyes away.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do people care so much about someone else's breastfeeding or bottle-feeding?

Seriously. I find this obsession with others peoples boobs rather bizarre.

I don't care what you do at home. It's the 30 pound toddler attached to your chest in a restaurant that I find annoying and gross.

Ding Ding Ding - WINNER!

Now PLEASE let this thread die.

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of parenting books advise parents to stop using the bottle when the child turns 1 yrs old, and to teach them to use a cup to drink. It's better for their oral development, healthier teeth, etc. Shouldn't the same thing apply to breast feeding as well - better for the child's oral development to learn to drink from a cup and not the nipple?

Oh, the many, many layers of ignorance.

1) The human nipple is not like a rubber nipple. It co-evolved with the infant's body for ideal oral development. The entire nipple flattens and shapes to the mouth and requires coordinated motion to express milk.

2) breastfed kids also drink from cups. My daughter nursed past age three and never used a bottle.

3) Stop trying to come up with reasons why something obviously normal and natural is not normal and natural.

Of course she never used a bottle. By three she was chewing up thick pieces of steak WITH HER TEETH.

It's NOT about the child; it's about the women who need this attachment to fill a void, to give them a purpose.

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Oh, god, just stop projecting. EBF was a challenge during a very busy, exciting, and purpose-filled part of my life. If there were anything else that offered the same benefits, I would have weaned when she had colic and it was fucking killing me, or when I got my first plugged duct, or during the biting phase, instead of working through the issues. Most women who EBF go through predictable stages of wanting to quit but recognizing that their kids do still need it. For me, it was worth frontloading the work of normal breastfeeding to have a child with a shitkicking immune system that has saved me a ton of time and worry over the years.

Hard to believe that the same people who are freaking the hell out all over this board over minor differences in schooling cannot understand why another mother would make a considered decision to breastfeed for maximum benefit. News flash: you cannot buy IQ.

Strange Sex watcher/deep thinker: really? Why isn't the entire majority world full of breastmilk fetishists? The vast majority of American ANR practitioners were weaned early and/or formula fed. Really. Go read the boards.

I was flipping channels the other night and landed on some TLC show called Strange Sex.

There was this icky guy on it that had an extended breast feeding wife.

He loved to nurse off his wife after the baby was finished, and had gotten to the point where he could only get really aroused if the sex involved nursing off his wife. He even drank breast milk out of the fridge, in his cereal, etc.

They showed them at a therapy appointment where the therapist was trying to get to the route of this, ahem, issue.

He opened up about his memories of being a 3 or 4 year old boy and still nursing his mom as a link to his adult fetish with breast feeding. The therapist then did a little talk about the freudian aspects of his situation.

I immediately thought of this thread.

Ewwww.

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Anonymous wrote:Why do people care so much about someone else's breastfeeding or bottle-feeding?

Seriously. I find this obsession with others peoples boobs rather bizarre.

I don't care what you do at home. It's the 30 pound toddler attached to your chest in a restaurant that I find annoying and gross.

Anonymous wrote:Why do people care so much about someone else's breastfeeding or bottle-feeding?

Seriously. I find this obsession with others peoples boobs rather bizarre.