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15 years ago @ http://www.crunchyvtmo... - Awkward Facebook Excha... · 1 reply · +2 points

Hah! I played the video for DS. First he was skeptical, then he started clapping along, then he got bored and started putting coasters on my face. If that song is still in my head in a few hours, imma show up at your door with some words.

15 years ago @ Connecticut News, Weat... - Mom says she was asked... · 0 replies · 0 points

Women should not be told to cover up. Breastfeeding is not sexual, private, taboo, offensive, or indecent. Your attitude is oppressive and misogynistic.

15 years ago @ Connecticut News, Weat... - Mom says she was asked... · 0 replies · +4 points

People who impose their fetishization of breasts and objectification of women are the problem.

15 years ago @ Connecticut News, Weat... - Mom says she was asked... · 0 replies · +7 points

Some breastfeeding researchers believe the benefits of breastfeeding come more from the physical contact than from the milk itself. The act of holding and touching and nurturing a child at the breast is extraordinarily beneficial to their brain development, feelings of attachment and trust, and sense of self-esteem, not to mention immunological protection and and nutrition. A sippy cup - a piece of plastic - is no substitute for the warmth of a mother's arms.

It doesn't matter what other people find uncomfortable. I'm uncomfortable seeing men in speedos at the beach but I have no more of a right to tell them to cover up than anyone does to tell a nursing mother to cover up.

15 years ago @ Connecticut News, Weat... - Mom says she was asked... · 0 replies · +2 points

Breastfeeding does not cease the moment solid foods are introduced. Solids are usually begun around 6 months of age, but the transition is gradual and the natural weaning process is very slow. Breastfeeding for a MINIMUM of 2 years is recommended by the WHO.

The ability to talk is completely unrelated to the need to breastfeed. Some babies have a hundred words before age 1. Others don't say much of anything until 3 or later. It's irrelevant.

15 years ago @ Connecticut News, Weat... - Mom says she was asked... · 0 replies · +4 points

Wow, so only women you deem to be sufficiently attractive are allowed to nurture their children without harassment? Interesting. Next time I'm breastfeeding in public, I'll be sure to put up a "Hot or Not" sign so people can vote as to whether my appearance qualifies me to exercise my human rights.

15 years ago @ Connecticut News, Weat... - Mom says she was asked... · 0 replies · +4 points

"affended" > offended
"violoted" > violated
"looser" > loser

I believe you've omitted some periods and apostrophes as well, forgotten to capitalize the first letters in your sentences and proper nouns, included run-on sentences and extra spaces, and overused exclamation points.

That was quite an impressive mangling of the English language in such a short and pointless comment.

15 years ago @ Connecticut News, Weat... - Mom says she was asked... · 0 replies · +4 points

"good old milk" IS BREASTMILK. Why do people think it's normal to give a HUMAN child the breastmilk of another species, but not the breastmilk of their own human mother, which is perfectly designed for them and as nature/god/what have you intended?

It is beyond offensive to say that a woman breastfeeding her child is committing sexual abuse. The fact that you cannot see breasts as BOTH sexual AND nurturing shows just how brainwashed you are by a society that uses breasts to sell clothes, beer, lifestyles, but not for what they are MADE to do - feed, comfort, and nurture children!

15 years ago @ Connecticut News, Weat... - Mom says she was asked... · 0 replies · +7 points

For someone to compare breastfeeding a child to pedophilia shows just how ignorant and uninformed that person is. No child can be made to breastfeed. In no way is it abusive. It is completely offensive to compare a woman NURTURING and CARING for her child with sexual abuse. Children who are permitted to wean themselves do so between the ages of 2-7. Children do not think of breastfeeding as sexual and neither does the nursing mother.

Just because you cannot expand your mind enough to conceptualize the human female breast as BOTH sexual AND nurturing doesn't mean you need to impose your narrow, judgmental views on everyone else.

15 years ago @ Connecticut News, Weat... - Mom says she was asked... · 0 replies · +5 points

No, that's not wrong. That natural age of weaning is between 2-7 years old. A child will not nurse if s/he does not want to nurse. In no way is breastfeeding a 2 or 3 or even 4 year old wrong.

What in the world does potty learning have to do with breastfeeding? Some kids are out of diapers by 1, others are still in trainers at 6. It's irrelevant.

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