Comments on: in just http://cribchronicles.com/2007/10/10/in-just/ i will NOT scribble on the children Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:32:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Poopydigs http://cribchronicles.com/2007/10/10/in-just/comment-page-1/#comment-55451 Poopydigs Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:36:47 +0000 http://cribchronicles.com/2007/10/10/in-just/#comment-55451 Nursing rocks. Awesome photo. So envious of the hair. Nursing rocks.

Awesome photo. So envious of the hair.

]]> By: Aliki http://cribchronicles.com/2007/10/10/in-just/comment-page-1/#comment-55431 Aliki Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:22:13 +0000 http://cribchronicles.com/2007/10/10/in-just/#comment-55431 Great picture, great post!! Great picture, great post!!

]]> By: christy http://cribchronicles.com/2007/10/10/in-just/comment-page-1/#comment-55354 christy Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:37:12 +0000 http://cribchronicles.com/2007/10/10/in-just/#comment-55354 I should post some pictures of me breastfeeding Porgie. It seems like every picture of us in hospital has lots of boob on display. I should post some pictures of me breastfeeding Porgie. It seems like every picture of us in hospital has lots of boob on display.

]]> By: Lori http://cribchronicles.com/2007/10/10/in-just/comment-page-1/#comment-55335 Lori Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:44:47 +0000 http://cribchronicles.com/2007/10/10/in-just/#comment-55335 Oh lordy.... is this really still an issue?!? I can hardly believe it! I don't have any breastfeeding pictures either, but I would share them with pride if I did! Breastfeeding is NOT easy, and I know there are many, many very good reasons why it is not always an option. I also understand how emotional it can be when it doesn't work out. My second son weaned himself long before I was ready, and I cried and cried about it. Oh lordy…. is this really still an issue?!? I can hardly believe it!

I don’t have any breastfeeding pictures either, but I would share them with pride if I did!

Breastfeeding is NOT easy, and I know there are many, many very good reasons why it is not always an option. I also understand how emotional it can be when it doesn’t work out. My second son weaned himself long before I was ready, and I cried and cried about it.

]]> By: nomotherearth http://cribchronicles.com/2007/10/10/in-just/comment-page-1/#comment-55328 nomotherearth Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:19:59 +0000 http://cribchronicles.com/2007/10/10/in-just/#comment-55328 Had a super slow eater myself. If I had stayed home to nurse, I would have never gotten out of the house. Now, THAT would be shameful. Had a super slow eater myself. If I had stayed home to nurse, I would have never gotten out of the house. Now, THAT would be shameful.

]]> By: Bon http://cribchronicles.com/2007/10/10/in-just/comment-page-1/#comment-55318 Bon Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:42:42 +0000 http://cribchronicles.com/2007/10/10/in-just/#comment-55318 yeh, i just don't get the outrage about this. i see more cleavage on magazine covers at the grocery store than i've ever seen watching someone nurse, because - hey! that damn baby's head is in the way! maybe the offense is actually that it's not as sexy-lookin' (in the cheap misogynist version of sexy) as people think boobs should be, and that's really the problem. that, and we've taught women that if they don't look like they should be on one of those magazine covers, they're gross...so thus breastfeeding is equated with gross in many female minds. i dunno. i try...i really do. but i don't get this at all. i do get, though, that breastfeeding is hard. SianOna, and others who may have struggled or not been able to nurse - i didn't mean this post to suggest that NOT breastfeeding is any kind of failure, though i know it feels that way for a lot of women. it felt that way for me, in the early days. O was a superslow eater, which meant i was pinned under him for an hour out of every two, around the clock. and then the colic started, and they were sure it was a dairy allergy...overall, i found it really rough. we bottle supplemented from about two months on, and a number of times i nearly quit altogether in despair. and i never even got the bleeding nipples i read about with such horror. so those mamas who don't nurse or who quit, i sympathize. but those who don't think mamas should do it at all, in front of others' eyes? cave folk, to me. can't help the judgement. i just do not see what offense could possibly be caused, not when gratuitous tits are all over the place anyway, and these ones are actually being used for their intended, nurturing, mammary purpose! off soapbox now. yeh, i just don’t get the outrage about this. i see more cleavage on magazine covers at the grocery store than i’ve ever seen watching someone nurse, because – hey! that damn baby’s head is in the way!

maybe the offense is actually that it’s not as sexy-lookin’ (in the cheap misogynist version of sexy) as people think boobs should be, and that’s really the problem. that, and we’ve taught women that if they don’t look like they should be on one of those magazine covers, they’re gross…so thus breastfeeding is equated with gross in many female minds. i dunno. i try…i really do. but i don’t get this at all.

i do get, though, that breastfeeding is hard. SianOna, and others who may have struggled or not been able to nurse – i didn’t mean this post to suggest that NOT breastfeeding is any kind of failure, though i know it feels that way for a lot of women. it felt that way for me, in the early days. O was a superslow eater, which meant i was pinned under him for an hour out of every two, around the clock. and then the colic started, and they were sure it was a dairy allergy…overall, i found it really rough. we bottle supplemented from about two months on, and a number of times i nearly quit altogether in despair. and i never even got the bleeding nipples i read about with such horror. so those mamas who don’t nurse or who quit, i sympathize.

but those who don’t think mamas should do it at all, in front of others’ eyes? cave folk, to me. can’t help the judgement. i just do not see what offense could possibly be caused, not when gratuitous tits are all over the place anyway, and these ones are actually being used for their intended, nurturing, mammary purpose!

off soapbox now.

]]> By: Beck http://cribchronicles.com/2007/10/10/in-just/comment-page-1/#comment-55316 Beck Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:03:44 +0000 http://cribchronicles.com/2007/10/10/in-just/#comment-55316 What a gorgeous picture of you! I am never, ever going to post a photo of myself from the early days of nursing - see, I'm busty enough to begin with, but when my milk came in each time, I would become comedically huge (we're talking H cup. H.) and the pictures are JUST not flattering enough. Vanity before Good Causes: that is my motto. What a gorgeous picture of you!
I am never, ever going to post a photo of myself from the early days of nursing – see, I’m busty enough to begin with, but when my milk came in each time, I would become comedically huge (we’re talking H cup. H.) and the pictures are JUST not flattering enough.
Vanity before Good Causes: that is my motto.

]]> By: NotSoSage http://cribchronicles.com/2007/10/10/in-just/comment-page-1/#comment-55314 NotSoSage Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:54:01 +0000 http://cribchronicles.com/2007/10/10/in-just/#comment-55314 No BF picks, either. But I have a full-on boobie shot from mere minutes after Mme L was born and was about to nurse...What I couldn't get over was how before children I was so sure that I was going to be modest and embarrassed about things - birth, nursing, etc. - and how unimportant and...erm, natural it was after she was born. I was just thinking this morning how absurd it is that this is a feminist issue in this freaking day and age. Wonderful post. No BF picks, either. But I have a full-on boobie shot from mere minutes after Mme L was born and was about to nurse…What I couldn’t get over was how before children I was so sure that I was going to be modest and embarrassed about things – birth, nursing, etc. – and how unimportant and…erm, natural it was after she was born. I was just thinking this morning how absurd it is that this is a feminist issue in this freaking day and age.

Wonderful post.

]]> By: daisies http://cribchronicles.com/2007/10/10/in-just/comment-page-1/#comment-55313 daisies Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:46:33 +0000 http://cribchronicles.com/2007/10/10/in-just/#comment-55313 i have some breastfeeding pictures that i would love to post, unfortunately, my son is 13 and would sadly have issues with me doing so, not because he has a problem with it because he so doesn't but because he's 13 and is easily embarassed by the fact that some of his girl friends read my blog, lol ... i can't believe this is even an issue anymore : / and we march on and i shake my head wondering if we have really come as far as i like to think, sigh ... you seriously rock : ) xox i have some breastfeeding pictures that i would love to post, unfortunately, my son is 13 and would sadly have issues with me doing so, not because he has a problem with it because he so doesn’t but because he’s 13 and is easily embarassed by the fact that some of his girl friends read my blog, lol … i can’t believe this is even an issue anymore : / and we march on and i shake my head wondering if we have really come as far as i like to think, sigh …

you seriously rock : ) xox

]]> By: mimi http://cribchronicles.com/2007/10/10/in-just/comment-page-1/#comment-55303 mimi Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:19:35 +0000 http://cribchronicles.com/2007/10/10/in-just/#comment-55303 Gorgeous. I like to characterize my own glassy eyes as 'shiny' -- feel free to use that one ;-) I can't believe we're still fighting this battle. It's all so so stupid. But on the upside, I guess, we all get to reminisce about breastfeeding, and that's kinda fun ... Gorgeous. I like to characterize my own glassy eyes as ‘shiny’ — feel free to use that one ;-)

I can’t believe we’re still fighting this battle. It’s all so so stupid. But on the upside, I guess, we all get to reminisce about breastfeeding, and that’s kinda fun …

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