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Wow, patriot 08. You sound like many of the teen moms I dealt with on a regular basis when educating them on how the benefits of breastfeeding could protect their babies for life. They responded, “So yucky though!” Ummmm, yeah. Then you probably shouldn’t be having a child, because you appear to still be behaving like one.

My mother never breastfed any of her five children, and we’re all healthy and well adjusted. Breastfeeding is highly over-rated, nasty and is practiced by wacko attention seekers.

I remember a few years back when my niece and her husband held a cookout for the 4th of July, a big family and friends gathering. My nephew and his wife where there and they had a newborn at the time. My nephew’s wife was breastfeeding their second child and she politely excused herself to go inside to the living room when it came time for her to breastfeed the baby so she could do it discreetly and more in private plus it was quiet and air conditioned and there were no mosquitoes buzzing about. But that didn’t last long as my niece’s triplet girls who were not quite 4 years old at the time and just adored their baby cousin Vivian and their Aunt Ro, followed her into the house.

My nephew’s wife was completely covered up with a blanket while breastfeeding but that didn’t stop the triplets from asking “whatcha doing with/to Vivian, Aunt Ro”, “Why is she under a blanket?, Is she cold?”; they were very curious. Their aunt told them she was feeding the baby but the triplets didn’t understand as they didn’t see any bowls, plates, spoons or sippy cups or baby bottles. Their mom came in and explained to them that their aunt was breast feeding the baby just like she had done with them when they were little babies. Their aunt asked their mom first if it was OK and then she pulled the blanket back so the triplets could see.

And their questions and reactions were priceless. Rather than thinking it was in anyway odd or unnatural they just had questions like asking their mom if she really did that when they were babies. And she told them, yes, “as much as I could but since you were triplets, I didn’t have enough milk in my breasts to feed all of you all that you needed so you also were also sometimes fed with baby bottles and formula milk, sometimes with my breast milk added to it when you were very small in order to help you grow big and strong”. And they said things like, "wow" and "cool".

One of the triplets asked her Aunt Ro if breast milk was like “real milk” like from the Turkey Hill store and did she have to warm it up first like in the microwave like their mom and dad still did for the cup of milk they got before bedtime, and one asked if it came in different flavors like chocolate or strawberry or apple juice. Then little Helen stroked her baby’s cousin’s head and said, “Oh. That is so sweet. Little Vivie looks so happy and so do you Aunt Ro. It looks like love”. : ) Then she went over to her mom and hugged her and said, “I love you mommy”. True story. Out of the mouth of babes.

It is too bad that apparently some here think that breastfeeding a baby is something to hide or even be ashamed of instead of like what little Helen saw it for; “It looks like love”.