lol.
i mean really, right? let me see here, women are encouraging women to feed their child and pushing against the bottle industry and they get accused of a conspiracy? i have heard more women say that they didn’t have enough milk then who said they did. how is it a conspiracy? it is all over the place. grrrr.
I’m in the middle of writing a journal entry for CafeMom but basically it says that I (gasp) realized after almost 2 years of breastfeeding that…wait for it…My Breasts Work! They do what they oughta! I never doubt my liver is filtering, or my eyes are seeing, or my tongue is tasting, or my heart is pumping, or my neurons are firing (ok, ok, you get the idea) but I wondered if I would make enough milk–or any at all! Guess what? They did and still are! When we all get over the fact that those “girls” being held up by a black lace demi bra are not decorations but fully functioning body parts, um, well, I don’t know, some kind of revolution maybe?
The squeaky wheel ALWAYS gets the grease! My FAV breastfeeding “action” is to nurse on a plane with OTHER babies! WHY is it my nursing toddler is QUIET on an 8 hour plane flight while everyone else’s is screaming? (Funny everyone was cringing about the cooped up toddler, lol) Foreign airline attendants were great, they KNOW to keep ME comfortable so she’ll stay well behaved, lol! oh yeah it’s a conspiracy all right, with plenty of “dirty little secrets” to dig up!
RE: “Make sure all new Mothers have at least one set of breasts.”
I knew a lady from La Leche League who had to have a breast removed due to cancer but STILL MANAGED TO BREASFEED HER BABY!! So I tell everyone I meet, “If you have at least one breast and a great support group, you will be able to breastfeed!” It tends to be all the moms with two boobs and no support that fail.
mama eva. i remember reading an article in mothering several years back by/about a woman that tandem nursed! with TWINS! on only one breast! i was in awe.
lol.
i mean really, right? let me see here, women are encouraging women to feed their child and pushing against the bottle industry and they get accused of a conspiracy? i have heard more women say that they didn’t have enough milk then who said they did. how is it a conspiracy? it is all over the place. grrrr.
lol… yeah….
I’m in the middle of writing a journal entry for CafeMom but basically it says that I (gasp) realized after almost 2 years of breastfeeding that…wait for it…My Breasts Work! They do what they oughta! I never doubt my liver is filtering, or my eyes are seeing, or my tongue is tasting, or my heart is pumping, or my neurons are firing (ok, ok, you get the idea) but I wondered if I would make enough milk–or any at all! Guess what? They did and still are! When we all get over the fact that those “girls” being held up by a black lace demi bra are not decorations but fully functioning body parts, um, well, I don’t know, some kind of revolution maybe?
The squeaky wheel ALWAYS gets the grease! My FAV breastfeeding “action” is to nurse on a plane with OTHER babies! WHY is it my nursing toddler is QUIET on an 8 hour plane flight while everyone else’s is screaming? (Funny everyone was cringing about the cooped up toddler, lol) Foreign airline attendants were great, they KNOW to keep ME comfortable so she’ll stay well behaved, lol! oh yeah it’s a conspiracy all right, with plenty of “dirty little secrets” to dig up!
“Create doubt that they’ll be able to formula feed.” Oh, I love it!
RE: “Make sure all new Mothers have at least one set of breasts.”
I knew a lady from La Leche League who had to have a breast removed due to cancer but STILL MANAGED TO BREASFEED HER BABY!! So I tell everyone I meet, “If you have at least one breast and a great support group, you will be able to breastfeed!” It tends to be all the moms with two boobs and no support that fail.
you know what i discovered the other day… i have nursed for 135 months! that is over 11 years or 4050 days! so my breasts are working. lol
aurora: so true! why do we doubt that that body part will work, when so many are working and we don’t even think about it!
heather in maine
This just made my day!
mama eva. i remember reading an article in mothering several years back by/about a woman that tandem nursed! with TWINS! on only one breast! i was in awe.
I just gotta get this out, I’ve been harboring it for ages…
When I read Dou-la-la’s nursing saga, I was convinced that any woman is capable of breastfeeding – if she wants it bad enough.