The amazing Lotus aka sarcastic mom is hosting a (breast)feeding carnival.. My daughter the very bossy Veronica from Sleepless nights mentioned that maybe I should add my two cents worth..
My initial reaction was for goodness sakes Veronica what on earth could I possibly contribute to a breastfeeding discussion.I haven’t breastfed for years..But then of course the seed was planted…and the eternally bossy and demanding eldest child of mine has got her own way again *sigh*
I never wear a bra at home ..Ever.. My boobs are huge they are enormously massively ample.I can, if provoked use them as weapons of mass destruction.. A full blown Tittie smack from me is very similar to being body slammed by Hulk Hogan…
At a Tas Rally once I was so pissed off by the small titties and perfect bums vying for the crown of wet t-shirt princess that I stormed the stage, milk filled breasts in hand and squirted the compere with milk.. I loudly declared that these were proper TITS… and then squirted the whole front row of hairy biker type men for good luck… hehehehe I got a dozen cans of vodka udls for that … And a huge round of applause when I loudly asserted that boobs were for babies
I was young.I was pissed. (mum was baby-sitting Veronica) I was militant. I was sick and tired of it being ok to flash your tits if it was for the pleasure of men,, but breastfeeding mums were being made to feed their babies in stinky public toilets..
Below is a copy of a post I wrote last year on myspace..
sometimes I feel so old….
Luckily for me feelings of ‘being old’ are only fleeting.. and often are feelings of
self pity..Or maybe just hangovers??? who knows…who cares?…
But thats not what this blog is about at all.. this is about BREASTS and more importantly BREASTFEEDING And being able to breast feed in public, when
your baby needs to feed….below is a copy of my daughters blog.…
Saturday, September 29, 2007
The Great Booby Fest
Ok I was recently over at Her Bad Mother, who had a link to The League of Maternal Justice who had these cute little buttons for me to stick on my blog.
Well yes they are cute but they are also meaningful. There will be a virtual nurse in on October 10th at 10am, to protest against Facebook deleting pictures of breastfeeding babies, but leaving up photos of half naked girls and pro-anorexia profiles.
You can get a button for your blog here.
Join in, show your support and breastfeed, bottlefeed, or reminicse about it on October 10th at 10am…..
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Now back to me..Kim …I breastfed and was quite militant about being able to breastfeed in public… In the late eighties it was considered quite offensive
to whack the ‘ol titty out in public and give the offspring a feed… never mind that
you could never see more than a centimetre of bare skin… and only ever get a glimpse of a milky nipple, before the offspring latched back on…gleefully hogging the aforementioned nipple…
It gave me the shits, that a prominent Hobart venue charged top dollar for a
‘Los Vegas’ type revue/musical/thingy.. with topless dancers wearing impossible
feathered headdresses, and not much more… and this was totally respectable..
yet a mother breastfeeding her child in public was viewed as disgusting…
and offensive…sigh…
So I was part of a breastfeeding protest ‘feed in’ with lots of mums coming together to feed their babes in public…
It saddens me that nearly twenty years later my daughter still suffers the same prejudices that I faced feeding her.. feeding my grandaughter…
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Okay maybe Veronica was right.. maybe I do have something to contribute to a discussion on breastfeeding.. but next time ok.. I think that I have shared a bit too much information here already..
cheers Kim xxx
