and now for something completely different!!!

I just watched a program on tv about extraordinary breastfeeding.

It was about women who breastfeed their children past an age where the average person would.

There was one woman who was still breastfeeding her child at the age of 9.

The other thing to note on the program was this weird group of breastfeeding mothers who say "Breast feeding is natural" and decided to form a line outside a supermarket all breast feeding their babies.

One woman actually fed her child whilst walking around the supermarket.

Now I'm not against breast feeding or in fact women doing it in public because sometimes there is no other place to do it but really do we need it shoved in our face by creating a line outside a supermarket.

I'm not sure what the women were getting at with their mini protest.

As for the child breast fed at 9. Thats just wrong isn't it? That child doesn't stand a chance at secondary school. (high school I believe for you Americans).

 

Yeah, well I support breastfeeding (much more beneficial than formuls) and honestly it doesn't bother me if done in public (just don't stare.......duh) but at age 9? Ewie! And a protest..........not sure why that'd be completely neccesary.

 

i see no issue at all with breast feeding, it is completely natural, and all mothers should be encouraged to do so. i am not sure if there is a correct time to end it, each to their own. we shouldn't be put off by high school bullying, thats were conformity kicks in.

what was the protest surrounding, if it what i think it is- boycott of Nestle products then i totally agree with the protest.
peacex

 

I have no problem with the breastfeeding in public and I'm not making a protest.

I just wondered what the need was to line up loads of women in a row outside a supermarket was.

I think their whole point was to raise breastfeeding awareness. (this was not made overly clear in the programme). Why do they need to make people aware? Isn't this a job for doctors and don't only people that have babies or about to have babies need to worry?

The 9 year old kid as well though?

 

there are lots of women in the UK and around the world who do take or use a doctor when they have a baby, and do not raise it knowing what they should do. so this programme may have helped them.

i will presume th eprotest was a nestle thing, as i have seen a few protests and there is a boycott at my University because Nestle encourage mothers in Africa not to breast feed but purchase Nestle milk- and this had resulted in deaths.

there are lots of useless shows on TV that may only interest a certain group or indiviudal- nobody forced you to watch it!
peacex

 

I watched it for the yuck factor. It was on mainstream tv, I didn't have to go hunting for it. (just in case you thought I was going through the mother and baby channels etc).

Its the same reason I watch things like pop idol because it makes me cringe.

Not the breastfeeding by the way, the 9 year old breast feeding.

Its like when there is a program about tourettes, got to watch it. My mum has a guy in the Tescos where she works that has tourettes. He works as a bag packer. I love going through that till.

 

9 seems a little excessive...

 

I totally support breastfeeding (did it twice myself) and walking around the supermarket should not be a problem......anywhere you would give a baby a bottle should be fine for a breast.


BUT....IMO, if a kid is too old for a bottle, they are also too old for a breast....
Seriously, the 9 year old is going to be messed up in the head.

 

I dunno, if i'm in a supermarket and a woman is breastfeeding her child whilst walking around its going to make feel a bit uneasy about buying loose vegetables and fruit where a bit may have dripped.

I'm not against breastfeeding but at least sit down and do it. I'm sure people would complain if I was drinking beer whilst walking around the shop or eating a kebab.

 

me personally have absolutely no issue with a women breast feeding in a shop, or anybody drinking or eating in a shop, i'm sure the shop may disagree with you drinking there, but i wouldn't. its natural and i have no problems with it, you do, but just don't watch or be so paranoid
peacex

 

cleaning your teeth is natural but I'd be surprised if I saw someone cleaning their teeth in a shop. Time and place, time and place

 

That's the thing with babies.....the whole "time and place" concept doesn't appeal to them... They get hungry and you feed them. That's how it works. You might also like to know that they poop wherever they happen to be, too....

 

I have got a son and I never changed his nappy whilst walking around the shop, I went to a changing room with him

 

i'd seriously hope parents dont change the diapers of babies in a food store! the very thought of that makes me want to puke.

Breastfeeding is different.

 

I saw that programme. Poor brats will be scarred for life, im sure. The mothers were insane. Kids were homeschooled and not allowed out of her sight...really, its messed up. When that kid hits puberty is she still going to whip her tits out because it gives her some kind of weird pleasure?

Its was just another way of keeping their children children...making them feel dependent on them, even physically. And i cant stand threats to peoples freedom.

 

I wasn't aware that I had suggested changing a baby in the middle of a store. What I said was "they poop"..... of course I never changed them in the middle of a store. I was making a point that babies have their own schedules....

What I would like to know is how exactly feeding a baby is gross? When breastfeeding, the baby is snug up to the body, how is it going to "drip all over the loose fruits and veggies"? Give me a break, are we wild animals or something? Climbing over the veggie bins? Perhaps we swing from the light fixtures as we nurse? Come on...

I personally am FAR more concerned that the loose fruits and veggies have been coughed and sneezed on by several different people and handed over and over by people chosing which ones to buy.....

 

or the chemicals from production.

I'd seriously hope that people would THOROUGHLY wash any fruits/veggies they get that arent bagged/prewashed.

 

I'd like to point out that I'm not making a huge protest about this. It was just after watching the program I thought I'd mention what I'd seen.

With regards to breastfeeding going around the store. Surely it would be easier to find somewhere to sit (ie the canteen that most supermarkets have nowadays).

I agree with the fresh fruit, vegetables etc. How do you know that they are any healthier than the frozen stuff that has been trodden on in the factories before being inserted into bags.

The things my wife told me that happened to fish fingers before being packed when she used to work in the fish factories. Yuck.

I do think breastfeeding whilst walking around the store is impolite.