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Wow, I'm completely lost any respect for Whoopi Goldberg...  

post #1 of 20
7/29/08 at 5:03pm
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...not that I had much anyway, but whatever. I saw this clip today:
http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=4980303
post #2 of 20
7/29/08 at 5:10pm
I saw that when it aired. My mom felt similarly about breastfeeding until I did it.

On a brighter note, she actually didn't object to the idea of cross nursing today on the show (she joked around about baby just wanting the milk and not caring whose boob it came from, but she didn't think cross nursing was something to be freaked out by). It sounds like she just had a bad experience with it. Not surprising considering she had her baby (babies?) like 20+ years ago.
post #3 of 20
7/29/08 at 5:12pm
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Yeah, I saw the cross-nursing thing. I was surprised she wasn't completely grossed out.
post #4 of 20
7/29/08 at 5:14pm
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Originally Posted by katiedidbug View Post
Yeah, I saw the cross-nursing thing. I was surprised she wasn't completely grossed out.
I was too! I expected her to hate the idea!
post #5 of 20
7/30/08 at 12:09am
I really wonder why the blonde girl stopped breastfeeing. Anyone know? I don't get how she can be there engorged and sad and not think 'Oh, right, I can just continue to nurse'.
post #6 of 20
7/30/08 at 12:25am
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Originally Posted by soso-lynn View Post
I really wonder why the blonde girl stopped breastfeeing. Anyone know? I don't get how she can be there engorged and sad and not think 'Oh, right, I can just continue to nurse'.

ITA, I was able to sort of relate to what she was saying until she said her babe was 7mo. I know that's "normal" for the mainstream, and am glad at least that breastfeeding is more normal than it used to be, but it seemed shocking that it was so early.

My kids were too old when they weaned to wean to a bottle, and they wouldn't be little enough to cradle in my arms while I held their drinks for them either and felt sorry. They were on their feet, tricycle, whatever and holding their own drinks and I never needed to say how sorry I was not to be giving them nursie any more.

Why did she wean, and why didn't one woman in that group of four have that question to ask of her?
post #7 of 20
7/30/08 at 12:28am
The link's not working. What happened?
post #8 of 20
7/30/08 at 5:52pm
I just can't take any of those women seriously.

PP - The link worked fine for me.

LP
post #9 of 20
7/30/08 at 6:04pm
Elisabeth upsets me even more than Whoopi because I just dont get her. "Im sorry its not me, Im sorry, I am really sorry" If she was so dang sorry she would nurse him instead of forcing that bottle in his mouth".

Whoopi is talking about things she just doesnt evne know about. 14 minutes of bf'ing and then she quit trying. Elisabeth KNOWS, she knows so much that she is actually sad and telling the baby sorry. ugh, she makes me sick.

She went one month longer with her son than with her daughter at least. She had this same conversation when she weaned her daughter at 6 months.
post #10 of 20
7/30/08 at 6:48pm
so.... basically the view gets some funding from formula companies...

Why is Elizabeth weaning at only 7 months anyway???!!! and talking about being engorged, so she's obviously not doing it right... Their stance on breastfeeding is the one reason why I don't watch the show. Isn't there some way we can petition someone, the company, the producers, someone to have a LLL leader, a member of WHO, a certified lactation consultant, hell, a WIC counselor on the show to at least educate these women (and America) the benefits of breastfeeding???
post #11 of 20
7/31/08 at 9:22am
For those who don't know, Elizabeth is a formula company spokeswoman. (see thread from 2005)
http://www.mothering.com/discussions...d.php?t=361743
post #12 of 20
7/31/08 at 10:37am
YUCK. and Whoopi was the only one on there I liked...at least Elizabeth breastfeed...even if for only 7 months.
post #13 of 20
7/31/08 at 10:51am
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Originally Posted by gaidinsgirl View Post
Elisabeth upsets me even more than Whoopi because I just dont get her. "Im sorry its not me, Im sorry, I am really sorry" If she was so dang sorry she would nurse him instead of forcing that bottle in his mouth".

Whoopi is talking about things she just doesnt evne know about. 14 minutes of bf'ing and then she quit trying. Elisabeth KNOWS, she knows so much that she is actually sad and telling the baby sorry. ugh, she makes me sick.

She went one month longer with her son than with her daughter at least. She had this same conversation when she weaned her daughter at 6 months.
Both of my 7 month olds would never have taken a bottle from mama. I wonder if she was saying I'm sorry to the babe because he was crying when she was feeding him? If she was engorged the baby must still have been getting a lot of breast milk. As for Whoppi, :
post #14 of 20
7/31/08 at 11:57am
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Originally Posted by Momtwice View Post
For those who don't know, Elizabeth is a formula company spokeswoman. (see thread from 2005)
http://www.mothering.com/discussions...d.php?t=361743
O.M.G. It all makes sense now.
post #15 of 20
7/31/08 at 12:13pm
FWIW, Whoopi's only child was born in 1973. IIRC, if you look at the charts, that's pretty close to the nadir of breastfeeding in this country. Fourteen minutes was probably more breastfeeding than most babies got in this country that year.
post #16 of 20
7/31/08 at 11:30pm
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Originally Posted by Meredith&Alexander View Post
FWIW, Whoopi's only child was born in 1973. IIRC, if you look at the charts, that's pretty close to the nadir of breastfeeding in this country. Fourteen minutes was probably more breastfeeding than most babies got in this country that year.
yes, thats the exact reason my mom didn't bf me. This is why I say that Elisabeth bothers me more than Whoopi. Whoopi is speaking about things that she never even really experienced, but Elisabeth has and she should not be talking so calmy about how she is weaning her son for no real reason.
post #17 of 20
8/1/08 at 7:45pm
te=soso-lynn;11814033]I really wonder why the blonde girl stopped breastfeeing. Anyone know? I don't get how she can be there engorged and sad and not think 'Oh, right, I can just continue to nurse'.[/quote]


That's a really good point....but I'm sure some smarty-pants pediatrician told her it was time for her to stop. I had a ped. tell me that once, I saked him why and he just kind of stammered through it: "Because he's seven months old, and he doesn't need it anymore now that he's on solids." I said "Well he's not on solids yet." I just got a from him then a lecture about how I was starving my baby to death. Well at seven months he ***ONLY*** weighed 23 pds at the time so I was like "I don't think so".

It's amazing what an uniformed mother will believe just because it comes from a pediatrician....
post #18 of 20
8/2/08 at 1:19pm
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Originally Posted by momo7 View Post
te=soso-lynn;11814033]It's amazing what an uniformed mother will believe just because it comes from a pediatrician....

OK, who knows how to make bumperstickers?
post #19 of 20
8/4/08 at 12:31am
nak

ok, i'm profoundly disappointed in whoopie. at a time when the infant mortality rate among african am babies is so high and so few black women bf,some better celebrity role models need to step up.
post #20 of 20
8/4/08 at 11:45am
You should all write to the show and let them know how you feel abc.go.com/daytime/theview/ask
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