I am not usually home during the day, but I was yesterday, and I had the tv on. "Yes Dear" was on, and this is a show I haven't seen before. It made me so angry!
The whole show was about how people who breastfeed past one-year-old are crazy and are only doing it for themselves (ie "the boobs"). It opened with a playground scene where a mother was extended breastfeeding her son, and led to the main characters deciding they had to wean their one-year-old that instant. It also mentioned circumcision. (The dad said, "I have to do all the hard stuff. I had to cut the cord, witness the circumcision..."
I was yelling at the tv.
It made me think that if someone was watching the show and considering breast v. bottle, that they would think, "Wow, it looks really hard to wean from the breast to the bottle. I think I'll just avoid that whole mess and go straight to the bottle."
It mentioned no benefits to breastfeeding at all, except getting a nice rack.
The whole show was about how people who breastfeed past one-year-old are crazy and are only doing it for themselves (ie "the boobs"). It opened with a playground scene where a mother was extended breastfeeding her son, and led to the main characters deciding they had to wean their one-year-old that instant. It also mentioned circumcision. (The dad said, "I have to do all the hard stuff. I had to cut the cord, witness the circumcision..."
I was yelling at the tv.
It made me think that if someone was watching the show and considering breast v. bottle, that they would think, "Wow, it looks really hard to wean from the breast to the bottle. I think I'll just avoid that whole mess and go straight to the bottle."
It mentioned no benefits to breastfeeding at all, except getting a nice rack.
: That sounds truly awful.
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