Comments | kara_called: but I didn't mean to...

kara_called

but I didn't mean to...

Jun 06, 2007 15:47

Last night we went over to my MIL's house for dinner. My BIL and SIL showed up with their two girls (one's almost 4yrs and the other is just over a month old). She's the one that I have been encouraging to breastfeed. I might have mentioned this before, but last week when we all got together, I asked her husband if she was still trying to nurse ( Read more... )

breastfeeding, rant

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kara_called June 7 2007, 16:01:48 UTC

Thanks for saying that. For a while I was thinking I was a bitch, but what's so bad about that sometimes? lol

ma2cuties June 7 2007, 15:46:56 UTC

I have found in my years of parenting that whenever someone feels bad or whatever it is their own demon. It's her problem and she's just trying to deflect her own guilt onto being pissed at you.
UGH Sorry she didn't take you up on your offer to help, that's frustrating isn't it?

kara_called June 7 2007, 16:00:22 UTC

It it frustrating. She was bragging last week about her baby's weight gain and attributing it to the supplementation, and I just wanted to shake her until she realized that it's just fillers-crap that her baby doesn't really need that is puffing her up, not "good" baby fat that breastfeeding gives, ya know? I just hope that she's not lying to me when she says that she's pumping. At least that's something.

folkgirl June 30 2007, 06:14:30 UTC

Yeah, if she felt bad then I believe it must have been her own guilt, not anything you did.

quirkyblogger July 14 2007, 09:12:34 UTC

I read this and had to comment, even though it's an old post. I wish and wish and wish people would stop making excuses to me about why they just could.not.breastfeed when little Johnny or Susie was small when they see me nursing my baby ( ... )

kara_called July 14 2007, 16:14:28 UTC

So you're a passionate breastfeeder? I knew we had more in common than a few friends. lol

quirkyblogger July 14 2007, 17:02:37 UTC

Yes. I so try not to be, but I totally am. Like I said, I keep my mouth shut about it -- until someone says something to me first. Then? All bets are off. LOL.

And re: your in-laws? Yeah. It might be their house, but they invited you into it knowing that you nurse. If they don't want to see that, then they shouldn't invite you over. I mean, that's FAMILY -- there's no reason you and the baby should have to hide. In my never-ever humble opinion, that teaches your kids that nursing is somehow shameful. And well, that? Is crap.

Man. I didn't know I had this much ranting about nursing in me. :grin:

kara_called July 14 2007, 19:57:14 UTC

lol Yeah, I think the boob nazis in breastfeeding are rubbing off on me! I'm much more vocal than I was with my other 2 kiddos.

I used to go into other rooms at the inlaws' house, but now I don't. Dominic is a discreet and fast nurser, so I don't have to worry about flashing the public, ya know? Oh, and (to quote Eminem) I just don't give a f*ck! I was more uncomfortable with nursing in front of all of them because of my skeezy BILs. I get the heebie-jeebies just thinking of them wanting to get a glimpse of my boobie! Bleh! And it's funny (read: I don't get it) how my MIL and FIL get all twitchy because FIL was breastfeed until he was 5yrs! He's from way way down in Mexico, in case you were wonderin'. ;)