*rant* Breatfeeding is disgusting *long post*

[Lyndsey]

OMG I am sooooo angry right now!

I am a member of a freecyle group and someone posted on the chat bit to support breastfeeding awareness week by signing the manifesto. Well - what has happened now can only be described as a backlash!

The moderator of the group has said that breastfeeding is disgusting and BF in public is the same as having sex in public so we shouldn't do it! Also she has said that she would tell someone to stop if she saw them! Another poster added that BF mums can always go somewhere else and she "once saw a BF mum who got her boob out for all to see and it made her feel sick so much it put her off her food!!!!!"

I have written a huge response back and I am now so angry!!!!!!!!!!! * I won't put it here as it was Looong and I am sure you know the kind of thigs I would have said! (babies need to feed you don't need to have sex, if you don't like it look the other way, how would you like to eat your meal in a bog, etc!)


I don't know if you can see this but it may be worth some of you pro breastfeeders to sign up so that we can "educate " this edjit!!!!!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newcastle ... ssage/1850

 

[lozzi]

OMG it annoys me so much


hence my middle blinkie


Babies need feeding, thats the reason we have boobs, fooking deal with it ppl!!!!!


we are merely feeding our babies, people can bottle feed in public why the heck cant we Bf in public without greif or funny looks?!?!?!


at the end of the day if your removing your WHOLE top and exposing everything then yea.. its uncalled for, but were not!

 

[jools221181]

It makes me so angry

 

[mum2A&L]

hence my middle blinkie

i love your middle blinky!

i always used to ask before BF in public (even in the mothercare mother room). now we bottle feed we don't have that 'issue'.

but i always had in the back of my mind that some people dislike it (and they are intitiled to their opinions) so i used to try and be as discret (sp) as possible.

 

[Charlotte & Emily]

how is feeding your baby disgusting?
just ignore them hun, they dont have a clue about what they are talking about.

why are they staring at people BFing anyway?

 

[Tasha20]

As far as im concerned they are unintelligent half whits that havnt got a clue and to say that breastfeeding is disgusting? I personaly feel formula is minging lol I wouldnt drink it breastmilk is so sweet

Lyndsey just ignore them and remember that they are proberly jelous

 

[Urchin]

I think if the moderator of the group said this you need to go over their head and report it to the admin, possibly even the HEAD of freecycle as views like this can get people into a LOT of trouble.

Copy everything you have to your PC as proof and then go for it!!

 

[Vicki83]

That's shocking! I don't BF personally, but i cannot understand why people would have this narrow minded opinion.

I was watching the wright stuff the other day and it was about BFing, and this woman (who was a mother of 2) came on and was going on about how disgusting it was, if a woman was in a restaraunt and got her boob out she'd be thrown out so why should it be any differet when women were feeding their babies, now coming from a mother especially i find this disgusting.

 

[libs]

Hmm well seeing as it's the SoT and Newcastle group .. I'm from the Potteries as well and can vividly remember being asked to move from the Food Court in the Potteries and to use the dark dingy room on the top floor to BF. They had "provided" this horrible nappy smelling cell, and couldn't understand why I wanted to sit with my sister, having a drink in the light instead. I ignored them, and then just to really annoy them changed his nappy on my knee there as well...hey you think my breasts offend? Wait till you see my nappies...

Strange, dunno who it would offend, as my Grandad always says, the women always used to go and sit on their front walls in the Potteries to feed as it gave them a chance to have a natter and not be bored. You see more breast from the women around Hanley and Newcastle on a weekend night out than you do from a breastfeeding Mum

Ignore the sad, repressed people

 

[Tasha20]

, and then just to really annoy them changed his nappy on my knee there as well...hey you think my breasts offend? Wait till you see my nappies...

Brilliant

Strange, dunno who it would offend, as my Grandad always says, the women always used to go and sit on their front walls in the Potteries to feed as it gave them a chance to have a natter and not be bored. You see more breast from the women around Hanley and Newcastle on a weekend night out than you do from a breastfeeding Mum

Ignore the sad, repressed people

Absolutly right, its ok to get em out when your on a night out but not for the benifit of your child hmmm just doesnt make sense to me what so ever

 

[gingerpig]

I think Urchin's right, this needs reported. I'm a member of freecycle in our area, and comments like that are appalling. Fair enough if you don't agree with breastfeeding but to comment like that about it is well out of order, and not within the ethical framework of freecycle. Someone is abusing their power.

 

[Gemma & Jake]

I think that anyone who thinks like this is so immature as at the end of the day it's only a boob and it's natural. I only breastfed for a couple of months but I think it's great if you feel you can do it for longer. I never breastfed when I went out as I found it too awkward having to find somewhere to go as you feel that you can't do it in front of anybody.

 

[Minxy]

Stuff like this geuinely baffles me.

I think it's an odd statement from a man but a WOMAN??!!

Words fail me (and THAT doesn't happen often )

 

[SarahB]

RRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

People like that make me soooooo mad!!!!! How the hell can the most natural thing in the world be disgusting??? What's wrong with these people??

REPORT HER!!!

 

[gingerpig]

Sarah B - that is the most fantastic raaargh!

 

[Tasha20]

RRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

People like that make me soooooo mad!!!!! How the hell can the most natural thing in the world be disgusting??? What's wrong with these people??

REPORT HER!!!

I love that rarrrr too I think youve just put exactly how I feel

 

[littlebump]

Utterly outrageous. I agree with Urchin - copy the post to your PC as backup and report the mad woman.

LBxx

 

[valentine]

Wait til you see this ladies:-

Scotsman breastfeeding article

Look at the comments at the bottom of the page!

The funny thing is that it's illegal to stop a woman b/feeding in public in Scotland(which is fantastic!)

xxx

 

[cloud9]

I found when i breastfed in public. I was anxious and waiting for someone to come up and tell me I was doing something wrong.It was so unrelaxing as i was ready for a fight.

These are the kind of people that make me feel this way

 

[Lyndsey]

I totally agree with this! This is how I feel! It does make you nervous!