How much are you comfortable in breastfeeding your baby ?

[dr_farzan]

Breast milk is the only food your baby needs for the first 4 to 6 months of life. It is advisable to continue to breastfeed your baby for a minimum of one year, and preferably for a full two years. Breast milk is specifically designed to meet the needs of the human infant, just as the milk of other mammals is specifically designed to meet the needs of their young. Breast milk also provides immune protection, reduces risk of allergies, decreases the incidence of respiratory, gastrointestinal, and other illnesses, helps to create a wonderful bond between you and your infant.
How much are you comfortable in breastfeeding your baby ?

 

[fubbleskag]

RE: How much are you comfortable in breastfeeding your baby

i know i'm probably gonna be alone on this, but i am personally bothered when i'm enjoying a meal at my favourite restaurant and someone at the table near me starts breastfeeding.

not while i eat, damnit.

 

[LadyC]

RE: How much are you comfortable in breastfeeding your baby

I loved breast feeding and I did it wherever I was. Discreetly of course. However, if anyone stared at me rudely expecting me to feed my babe in the bathroom I stared beck at them till they figured out it was best to mind their own business. That only happened twice.

If you're uncomfortable seeing a woman's (covered) breast, don't look.
If it's the manner of feeding that bothers you.... I sure hope your manners are impeccable.... no talking with food in your mouth, no playing chew 'n' show.... you get my point.

I even nursed while wandering the aisles at Costco, and no-one noticed.

 

[Twila]

RE: How much are you comf

I personally find it hard to understand how anyone would be disturbed at the sight of a baby nursing. I've tried to understand but I can't figure it out.

We don't get upset watching kittens nurse, or puppies nurse, or kid goats or calves or foals....

I wonder if it has something to do with the "dirtiness" of it being a human BREAST. I wonder if subconciously it makes some feel that they can no longer enjoy the sexual aspect of a breast once they see the real reason women have them?

 

[fubbleskag]

RE: How much are you comfortable in breastfeeding your baby

i can assure you i've enjoyed one or two human breasts since the last time i had the displeasure of witnessing a breastfeeding in a restaurant.

i would be just as bothered if a kitten, puppie or goat were nursing near my table at a restaurant as i am by a person.

and ladyc, i would never make mention of it to the woman, as it's the restaurant's policy to allow such behaviour. more often than not, i ask for my meal to be wrapped up and i'll finish it at home or in the car or what-have-you.

as i stipulated, i expect to be in the minority on this issue.

 

[LadyC]

RE: How much are you comfortable in breastfeeding your baby

Such behaviour?

You don't need to mention it... we can see it in your eyes. Not that I cared. I was discreet in my nursing, even in the privacy of my own home, but I'll admit to a secret pleasure knowing it disturbed some people - probably the same people that were just ogling the underwear model on the side of the bus.

Something's seriously wrong with a society that sees breast-feeding a baby as somehow shameful, yet wants to see a little breast on TV.

I'm surprised at you, fubbleskag. I get the impression you're younger than me. Isn't every generation supposed to be more enlightened than the one previous?

Makes me wish I were still nursing......

 

[peapod]

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I would like to know why the good doctor is asking these questions? Is he doing some kind of research...they seem to be only women type questions...I would like to ask the doctor a few male type questions....like once my brother had a picture of a man from india with a case of elephantitsis, my brother called it. His balls were so big, he had to carry them around in a wheel barrel...Is this for real?? Can this really happen to a mans balls?? what causes this??

 

[Twila]

RE: How much are you comf

Pea, it's caused by round worms! It can happen, it does happen.

Saw the same picture.

 

[peapod]

Re: How much are you comfortable in breastfeeding your baby

Really 8O and I just thought my brother was dreaming as usual :lol: :lol: :lol: Wow no cure...what a horrible life the poor man must have suffered 8O

 

[Twila]

RE: How much are you comf

I haven't heard about whether it's painfull or not. Looks painful. But just think....that guy was able to say without a shadow of a doubt and with obviously visual proof that he does in fact have the biggest balls of them all! Bon Scott is rolling in his grave right this very minute.

 

[peapod]

Re: How much are you comfortable in breastfeeding your baby

Well I am trying to picture in my mind how he did alot of everyday things 8O

 

[Twila]

RE: How much are you comf

Really, or are you simply picturing a man with gianormous balls?

 

[peapod]

Re: How much are you comfortable in breastfeeding your baby

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: ...well ehm..no I was trying to figure out how he did things trying to get around with them in a wheel barrel...think about it 8O I seriously doubt he could..*whispers*
preform Shhhhhhh

Worms you say, what kind of worms? please continue it is most fascinating...really

 

[Twila]

RE: How much are you comf

Round worms. Apprently they infect the lymphatic system and that's why things swell. I can't remember if the worms are ingested from tainted water or if they burrow their way in.

 

[peapod]

Re: How much are you comfortable in breastfeeding your baby

I will have to google that and find out more. A good topic for strange afflictions 8O

 

[dr_farzan]

Re: How much are you comfortable in breastfeeding your baby

Peapod, thank you for the question.Elephantitis or elephantiasis is the gross ,visible enlargement of the arms, legs, or genitals to very large size.It is the result of a parasitic infection caused by three kinds of round worms transmitted by particular species of mosquitoes.The worms block the body's lymphatic system which can lead to great swelling, called "lymphedema." that they resemble an elephant's foreleg in size.Long-term infection can lead to hydrocele in the scrotum, the scenario you were talking about.It is the result of lack of medical care at the right time. This disease can be well controlled, if diagonised in the early stages.Some times,several courses of diethylcarbamazine treatment over a long time period may be necessary.

 

[fubbleskag]

Re: RE: How much are you comfortable in breastfeeding your b

Something's seriously wrong with a society that sees breast-feeding a baby as somehow shameful, yet wants to see a little breast on TV.

as i've said twice now, and i'll repeat once more just to be sure we're clear - i am quite certain that i am a minority on this issue, thereby making this statement completely ridiculous. if society truly deemed public breastfeeding as distasteful, it wouldn't be allowed in public. see smoking for a working example of this in practice.

I'm surprised at you, fubbleskag. I get the impression you're younger than me. Isn't every generation supposed to be more enlightened than the one previous?

my personal tastes have nothing to do with enlightenement, but i find it amusing that you would even mentino enlightenement after a comment such as this:

...but I'll admit to a secret pleasure knowing it disturbed some people...

 

[choppie]

RE: How much are you comfortable in breastfeeding your baby

meh....breastfeed wherever or whenever....it don't bother me but I am glad that rooms are provided for people who are shy...

 

[acidcomplex]

RE: How much are you comfortable in breastfeeding your baby

yeah theres nothing else better Id like to see than some woman who is a deuce fity, flop out her headlights to give her baby some food, use a room.

 

[Jo Canadian]

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