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Sarah Palin, GOP VP nominee, tells People she is a pumping mom  

post #1 of 53
8/30/08 at 10:40am
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Too bad that I disagree with the politics of the first-ever lactating mom on the presidential ballot of a major party in my country. I have these mixed feelings of Cool! (about the pumping) and Oh no! (about her politics.)

Obama and Biden have my vote, but it's pretty cool that she mentions a breast pump in this interview!

http://www.people.com/people/article...222685,00.html

(Note: I put a link to this thread over in the Politics forum thread)
post #2 of 53
8/30/08 at 11:24am
i was just wondering last night "is she breastfeeding?". so glad to hear she is. though i too will not be voting for her/him.
post #3 of 53
8/30/08 at 11:26am
I've also seen a pic of her with Trig in a sling, I'll have to see if I can find it again.
post #4 of 53
8/30/08 at 11:27am
Huh. I like her as a mom, it seems. But I know absolutely nothing (other than being staunchly anti-abortion and Republican) about her politics.

There was another thread posted here with a photo of her slinging Trig.
post #5 of 53
8/30/08 at 11:44am
found the pic: Palin with Trig in a sling
post #6 of 53
8/30/08 at 12:00pm
i could vote for her based on that, it says alot about her values.......
post #7 of 53
8/30/08 at 12:02pm
i think its great taht she is bf'ing and slinging her baby...of course i think thats the best for him. but im not voting a woman in office simply due to the fact that she bf's. I think EVERY woman should bf absent a medical reason.
post #8 of 53
8/30/08 at 12:17pm
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Originally Posted by Momtwice View Post
Too bad that I disagree with the politics of the first-ever lactating mom on the presidential ballot of a major party in my country. I have these mixed feelings of Cool! (about the pumping) and Oh no! (about her politics.)

http://www.people.com/people/article...222685,00.html

(Note: I put a link to this thread over in the Politics forum thread)
ITA.

I'd consider myself a lactivist and very, very pro-breastfeeding and very, very pro-breastfeeding in public. I nursed my baby for 2.5 years.

But I don't consider breastfeeding or pumping to be an issue on which I would decide to vote for a candidate.

To me, that is personal. Yes, the personal often becomes the political. But there are so many grand-scale issues that need to be addressed and BFing and pumping doesn't qualify one to fix our environment, our economy, provide health care, and improving foreign policy.

Although, I am always happy to see nursing or pumping moms. Especially in the limelight. I always like to see nursing celebrities for that reason, but I wouldn't vote for them for president or vice president.

Ditto for babywearing. I applaud her for BFing and slinging, but that's not why I would vote for her or anyone else.
post #9 of 53
8/30/08 at 12:20pm
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Originally Posted by PassionateWriter View Post
i think its great taht she is bf'ing and slinging her baby...of course i think thats the best for him. but im not voting a woman in office simply due to the fact that she bf's.
ITA.

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It might say something about her values as a breastfeeder, but it doesn't necessarily traslate to anything else.

Because she's a breastfeeder doesn't mean she's AP, for example.

Or that she can handle the economy, or knows enough about environmental issues, or can address matters of state, or is capable of handing foreign affairs. We need someone who has the knowledge and ability to handle big, big and very complex issues.

But I applaud her for BFing and babywearing. I'm just not going to vote for her because of those issues alone, or for that matter, that she is a woman.
post #10 of 53
8/30/08 at 12:23pm
I am glad that she's breastfeeding, and I am glad that it will bring attention to breastfeeding. Unfortunately, I am worried about the backlash though. It tends to be Republican politicians that oppose any breastfeeding legislation, pumping laws, etc. With such a high profile Republican breastfeeding, I worry that people will think that the Republicans support breastfeeding without doing their research.
post #11 of 53
8/30/08 at 12:33pm
Good for her with the breast pump, but a hearbeat away from the presidency. I am appalled and frieghtened of the decision that John McSame has made. Her policies are so anti-women that her lactating boobs could never be a reason to support her.
post #12 of 53
8/30/08 at 12:47pm
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Originally Posted by ColoradoMama View Post
I am glad that she's breastfeeding, and I am glad that it will bring attention to breastfeeding. Unfortunately, I am worried about the backlash though. It tends to be Republican politicians that oppose any breastfeeding legislation, pumping laws, etc. With such a high profile Republican breastfeeding, I worry that people will think that the Republicans support breastfeeding without doing their research.
I thought of this too.

If I remember correctly, Jane Swift was the first US Governor to give birth while in office. And IIRC, she refused to comment on what her twins were eating, nor would she speak out about rights for nursing moms in the workplace. She was a Republican too.

What I do like about this, for one thing, is that it helps dispell the myth that only a certain type of woman breastfeeds....women of every political party and those in between all breastfeed.
post #13 of 53
8/30/08 at 12:49pm
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Originally Posted by imagine21 View Post
Her policies are so anti-women that her lactating boobs could never be a reason to support her.




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post #14 of 53
8/30/08 at 1:13pm
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Originally Posted by SunnieP View Post
i could vote for her based on that, it says alot about her values.......
Do you really believe that?
I'm being curious and not snarky when I ask that. I mean, women from all walks of life breastfeed/pump. I don't think her breastfeeding tells me anything about her as a person.
post #15 of 53
8/30/08 at 1:23pm
I said..... "if she can afford to not work". I know that many cannot.
post #16 of 53
8/30/08 at 1:35pm
Well, it's good to hear about a bf'ing, baby-wearing mom in her position, and it makes me feel better about her as in individual, but even if I agreed with her on the issues that matter most to me now - foreign policy, the environment and the economy - she still wouldn't be a reason to vote for McCain. I doubt as VP she'd have much influence, anyway - I get the feeling she's been picked purely as a gimmick.
post #17 of 53
8/30/08 at 1:44pm
She is also a homeschooler I believe And a Mom of Many
post #18 of 53
8/30/08 at 2:44pm
Do we know what her arrangements were at 3 days after?

I go to work VERY soon after......WITH baby in tow

I am usually back at least part time with in a week. But i breastfeed on demand, wear the little and have them with me 100% of the time.
post #19 of 53
8/30/08 at 2:45pm
I have no idea why she went back to work at 3 days PP. I think we can all agree that is far outside the norm of what is a reasonable amount of leave. I don't think there's going to be some huge push to get mothers back in the work force 3 days post partum
post #20 of 53
8/30/08 at 2:49pm
the fact that Trig was 4 weeks early actually makes her return to work with him in tow more understandable.

My current job (which is very family-friendly) might ask me to attend an already scheduled meeting (or at least do a conference call) if things were on my calendar and the baby came early.

most of the women I know with preemies returned to work while the babies were in the hospital to save their time off for when the babies came home...
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