WTF?

[muninnhuginn]

So I wanders off this afternoon to deal with things parental and come back to find my screen full of beautiful pictures of contented babies doing what comes naturally. Wow.

And the reason? Double wow.

And nope, I cannot see how there is anything obscene about images of breastfeeding... at all. Nipples 'n' all. But I can't find one of me and Looby Loo "at it" so the new icon's courtesy of cangetmad to whom many thanks. It's a gorgeous image.

I wasn't breastfed. I suspect I may have had better health if I had been and I think it was a matter of my mother's health post delivery that meant she didn't. My younger brother was. I did breastfeed. For just over twelve months. It was bliss. I'm certain it helped support Looby Loo's health and growth. It changed my attitude to my body and my internal view of myself--entirely for the better. It's not something to be hidden from view--except if an individual woman is happier to be private whilst feeding her child: her baby, her breast, her choice--well not unless we ban all images of anyone at all eating in public.

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[muninnhuginn]

"A breastfeeding baby is substantially less interruption than a mobile phone conversation, in my experience."

Unless, of course, the breatfeeding mum's rude enough to be using her mobile at the same time. Rats! I'm now kicking myself. Sat at home, in my basically self-imposed internal exile, when it was winter and I wanted to feed on demand, it never occurred to me to keep the mobile handy so I could talk. And I could've done it in public too ;-) (Ah, I blame those lactation hormones--they do make one a little dim.)