What's harder than breastfeeding?
Sep. 21st, 2009 08:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mrsbrownToday I hit the "sometimes it's too hard to breastfeed" line in the comments to someone else's blog and I'm obviously still having trouble believing it.
I responded once, but I'm not going to keep going as it would be rude. Besides, my point was not that breasteeding is easy, but that our society fails to support women adequately and we should change society.
*deletes disrespectful, unclear rave about stuff that would be harder than the physical act of feeding a baby, that has haunted me all night*
I come from a place of breastfeeding privilege. My first memory is of my mother feeding my sister. My later memories include breastfeeding my doll while my aunt fed my cousin. I'm 3rd eldest of a group of 16 cousins and I don't remember baby bottles being part of what you do with babies.
When I was pregnant for the first time my mother took me to visit her friend in hospital who had just had a baby. She told me that she'd found it an incredibly sensual experience. Even in my choice of parther, I was lucky. He had a similar level of breasfteeding normality privilege - including two younger siblings who were breastfed in his presence when he was 7.
Then when I had my baby it was normal to stay in hospital for 5 days and of course I was 19. I had no idea of what could go wrong.
Breastfeeding is a physical skill, on a par with ballroom dancing or learning to read. That bit's not hard.
Modifying society so everyone has the same perception of breastfeeding that I have - that's hard.
I responded once, but I'm not going to keep going as it would be rude. Besides, my point was not that breasteeding is easy, but that our society fails to support women adequately and we should change society.
*deletes disrespectful, unclear rave about stuff that would be harder than the physical act of feeding a baby, that has haunted me all night*
I come from a place of breastfeeding privilege. My first memory is of my mother feeding my sister. My later memories include breastfeeding my doll while my aunt fed my cousin. I'm 3rd eldest of a group of 16 cousins and I don't remember baby bottles being part of what you do with babies.
When I was pregnant for the first time my mother took me to visit her friend in hospital who had just had a baby. She told me that she'd found it an incredibly sensual experience. Even in my choice of parther, I was lucky. He had a similar level of breasfteeding normality privilege - including two younger siblings who were breastfed in his presence when he was 7.
Then when I had my baby it was normal to stay in hospital for 5 days and of course I was 19. I had no idea of what could go wrong.
Breastfeeding is a physical skill, on a par with ballroom dancing or learning to read. That bit's not hard.
Modifying society so everyone has the same perception of breastfeeding that I have - that's hard.
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Date: 2009-09-27 11:51 pm (UTC)