thats what they are for

[polishprinsezz]

i went to a baby shower today and the lady behind me says " she didnt get one bottle, how will she feed the baby?" so i had to say" with her breasts. thats what they are for." the lady didnt have anything to say after that.

[momma2libby]

[sapphire_chan]

You get an Internet for awesome!

[frontierpsych]

That comment would have seriously made me fall out of my chair half laughing half crying. We really do live in a bottle-feeding culture, huh?

[mamajake]

I had a similar experience with a nurse in a hospital where my then infant son was having surgery. She kept asking me over and over for a bottle or pacifier for my son when he was in recovery because he would be upset and want to suck on something. I kept repeating that I would be nursing him as soon as he came out. I had arranged with the surgeon to get my son immediately post-op. She just couldn't get it. About the sixth time she said, "But what is he going to put in his mouth?", I opened my shirt, pulled my very large breast out of my bra, dropped my breast with a big "plop" on the counter, and said "This!". She literally ran away as if I had pulled a gun.

[MommytoTwo]

I had a similar experience with a nurse in a hospital where my then infant son was having surgery. She kept asking me over and over for a bottle or pacifier for my son when he was in recovery because he would be upset and want to suck on something. I kept repeating that I would be nursing him as soon as he came out. I had arranged with the surgeon to get my son immediately post-op. She just couldn't get it. About the sixth time she said, "But what is he going to put in his mouth?", I opened my shirt, pulled my very large breast out of my bra, dropped my breast with a big "plop" on the counter, and said "This!". She literally ran away as if I had pulled a gun.

omg :

[Arwyn]

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Ohmigosh, that is the funniest thing ever! :

[madmacksmommy]

Originally Posted by mamajake

I had a similar experience with a nurse in a hospital where my then infant son was having surgery. She kept asking me over and over for a bottle or pacifier for my son when he was in recovery because he would be upset and want to suck on something. I kept repeating that I would be nursing him as soon as he came out. I had arranged with the surgeon to get my son immediately post-op. She just couldn't get it. About the sixth time she said, "But what is he going to put in his mouth?", I opened my shirt, pulled my very large breast out of my bra, dropped my breast with a big "plop" on the counter, and said "This!". She literally ran away as if I had pulled a gun.

That is awesome!! What I wouldn't give to have seen the look on the nurses face when you pulled out your babes "pacifer"! LOLOL!!

[homewithtwinsmama]

Originally Posted by mamajake

I had a similar experience with a nurse in a hospital where my then infant son was having surgery. She kept asking me over and over for a bottle or pacifier for my son when he was in recovery because he would be upset and want to suck on something. I kept repeating that I would be nursing him as soon as he came out. I had arranged with the surgeon to get my son immediately post-op. She just couldn't get it. About the sixth time she said, "But what is he going to put in his mouth?", I opened my shirt, pulled my very large breast out of my bra, dropped my breast with a big "plop" on the counter, and said "This!". She literally ran away as if I had pulled a gun.

OMG! MJ, I can't stop laughing. You are a breastfeeding Goddess!!!!!! Sooooo funny! You should write that story up and send it to Mothering or another parenting magazine!!!!!

[Ziggysmama]

Lol!!!!

[MCatLvrMom2A&X]

Originally Posted by mamajake

I had a similar experience with a nurse in a hospital where my then infant son was having surgery. She kept asking me over and over for a bottle or pacifier for my son when he was in recovery because he would be upset and want to suck on something. I kept repeating that I would be nursing him as soon as he came out. I had arranged with the surgeon to get my son immediately post-op. She just couldn't get it. About the sixth time she said, "But what is he going to put in his mouth?", I opened my shirt, pulled my very large breast out of my bra, dropped my breast with a big "plop" on the counter, and said "This!". She literally ran away as if I had pulled a gun.

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You are my new hero mama :

[MamaRabbit]

: That is AWESOME!!!

[menomena]

one for each of the stories.

[thehippiemama]

Love the story about trying to convince a nurse that they baby will breastfeed after surgery.

My dd (2) had surgery again last fall. The nurse just couldn't get it through her head that I would be there to breastfeed my daughter in recovery since I knew she would not want a cup at that time. I knew she would also want the comfort of mama milk. The nurse looked at me like I had two heads and kept telling me my daughter was 2 not an infant so she needed to know what we would do that day. She couldn't understand that a child still could breastfeed at 2 years old. She actually asked me if my dd doctor knew she still "did that" LOL

[ILoveMyBabyBird]

funny, i still got tons of bottles eventhough i told everyone i eas bfing

[Janice in Canada]

Great stories, everyone!

Mamajake - that is hilarious - gave me my first laugh of the day! I even had to read that to dh!

Does Mothering mag accept little stories - like Reader's Digest? All of these need to be shared and archived. These are part of our history.

The only downside of the Internet is - we share all these great stories - but will they just disappear? I wish these were being published, saved and archived somewhere. Hopefully one day, we will need these stories to show our daughters what a crazy time we lived in! And hopefully our daughters won't even understand the joke!!!

Janice

[momma2libby]

Originally Posted by mamajake

I had a similar experience with a nurse in a hospital where my then infant son was having surgery. She kept asking me over and over for a bottle or pacifier for my son when he was in recovery because he would be upset and want to suck on something. I kept repeating that I would be nursing him as soon as he came out. I had arranged with the surgeon to get my son immediately post-op. She just couldn't get it. About the sixth time she said, "But what is he going to put in his mouth?", I opened my shirt, pulled my very large breast out of my bra, dropped my breast with a big "plop" on the counter, and said "This!". She literally ran away as if I had pulled a gun.

laughupup

[mamajake]

Thank you fine women. I am blushing.

To put the story in a little more context, the hospital had a strict "no non-employees" policy about the recovery room. I had already appealed it to the hospital chief, and my son's surgeon, a famous pediatric opthamologist, had written a letter as well supporting my request to be with my son immediately post-op. The hospital stood by the policy which I knew was motivated entirely by the high rate of malpractice that occurs in recovery rooms and their need to keep civilians from seeing it. So the surgeon said to the hospital chief basically "you can keep her out but you can't keep her kid in so I will take the kid directly from the operating room to his mom in the traige area." So after each of the four surgeries my son had between age 6 mos and 14 mos, the surgeon would come out of the o.r. with my son cradled in his arms and we would curl up on a gurney in a curtained off area in the pre-op room and nurse until he was cleared to leave. So it was understandable that the nurse would need me to explain that my son would be with me post-op. But after she clearly understood he would be with me but still couldn't figure out what I would be putting in his mouth, I pretty much lost it. Add in that it was like 6 a.m., my baby was having his eye muscle severed, and I was all alone because my husband was home with my other kids, and I was most definitely ripe for a "do not f*ck with me" moment.

Oh I had already had a discussion with the same nurse about how my son would in fact not be starving since he was exclusively breastfed and therefore had not had to fast before the surgery like the other kids.

Kudos definitely go to the surgeon who took a lot of grief for carrying my son to me straight from the o.r. He wouldn't even let them bring him on a gurney - he literally carried my son in his arms. Same doc was a bit taken back when at our very first visit I put my son to the breast during the exam. As a pediatric opthamologist he spends his day poking and putting drops in the eyes of screaming freaked out kids. If he examined my son while he was nursing, it was a relative breeze. He told me he had never had a mother do that before and told me he wished he'd known what a difference it would make years ago. He told me he would be asking moms to do it from then on.

P.S. I don't know how the quote got over there under my screen name. Honestly, fess up, who did that? I can't figure it out.

[St. Margaret]

Ah... there are some WONDERFUL doctors out there, aren't there? Diamonds in the rough! We have one like that, an OBGYN, around here

[2pinks]

I cracked up reading your story, MJ. You're my hero!