this is soooo hilarious..

[Can Dance]

I was trying to figure out if Betty Draper from Mad Men breastfed her baby or not (guessing not, though with no definitive answer yet, if you know please tell!) anyway, I googled Mad Men Breastfeeding, and this was the link that surfaced.

its terribly funny, IMO:
http://adbroad.blogspot.com/2008/06/...d-against.html

[PatioGardener]

thanks for posting!

[HappyFox05]

Rofl, that's great!

[mamadelbosque]

Lol

[AidansMommy1012]

Ha! That's awesome.

[SueDeNym08]

I didn't see the link yet, but to answer your question - no, she did not breastfeed him. In the episode where she has the baby, the admitting nurse asks her if she will "offer the breast" or something like that and she says no - as if it's beneath her to feed her child that way... *eye roll*

[Minarai]

GAAAAHH!
Am I the only one who found that link offensive?
Who in their right mind would willingly hold their children back academically, let alone by denying them breastmilk?

[HikeMama]

Originally Posted by Minarai

GAAAAHH!
Am I the only one who found that link offensive?
Who in their right mind would willingly hold their children back academically, let alone by denying them breastmilk?

I think it was just a joke- I don't think the writer was intending to hold their children back academically by denying them breastmilk. I didn't see it as offensive because I thought it was a funny sarcastic article that actually attests to breastfeeding contributing to intelligence.

...right?

[Thalia the Muse]

There's no way they'd have Betty breastfeeding! The show is full of period-specific parenting, from letting the kids tumble around the backseat with no seatbelts, leaving their picnic litter all over, pregnant ladies with a cocktail in one hand and a cancer stick in the other, kids mixing cocktails for the parents, to Betty's little girl putting a drycleaning bag over her head, and Betty getting mad because she dumped out the clothes it contained. They've bent over backward to shock contemporary parents with all the horrible stuff THEIR parents did, and formula-feeding fits right in.

How would she even get a breast out, with all those Merry Widows and full-body girdles and gorgeous shirtwaist dresses that I would give my eyeteeth to possess? It must have taken women 45 minutes to get their clothes off every night -- I don't see how all those lunchtime affairs ever worked out logistically.

[Heba]

Originally Posted by HikeMama

I think it was just a joke- I don't think the writer was intending to hold their children back academically by denying them breastmilk. I didn't see it as offensive because I thought it was a funny sarcastic article that actually attests to breastfeeding contributing to intelligence.

...right?

Yeah, that's the way I saw it. I liked it