Dr. Laura anti-nip

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pegmom

Discussion Starter · Oct 8, 2003

I just caught the tail end of the show yesterday and she read a letter from a listener who condemmed nip. She said someting like, "Just because there is a baby attached to it doesn't mean it is not still a breast." She was saying how women should go to a secluded place if they are out in public. She also said how mothers should not even feed their babies in front of other family members if they are at a family event. Dr. Laura couldn't have agreed with her more. I find it amazing that Dr. L prides herself on being such an advocate for children then comes out with something as blatently anti-child/mother as this. Did anyone else catch this?

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velcromom

· #2 · Oct 8, 2003

Didn't catch that and probably a good thing or dh would have had to listen to a long vent! Ugh!
She has that totally backwards - it's more like, "just because there's a man attached to it doesn't mean it's not still a milk gland for feeding babies." People have lost sight of the intended primary use of breasts!

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captain optimism

· #3 · Oct 8, 2003

Dr. Laura is just anti-me. Anything I might think is good, she thinks is bad, as a rule of thumb.

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merpk

· #4 · Oct 8, 2003

c'o

She's not worth listening to, IMHO. Any good ideas she might have are outweighed by her total idiocy.

IMHO.

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kama'aina mama

· #5 · Oct 8, 2003

Excellent point velcro mom!

Ugh. Laura.

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lauraess

· #6 · Oct 9, 2003

Ughhh, Im sad we share a name. she isss an idiot!!!! sometimes i just think I'm on the wrong planet with so many morons on it!!!!
I want to send her an e-mail. got the ADDRESS??
She is so extreme in her uppity-ness isnt she???
Laura

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pegmom

Discussion Starter · #7 · Oct 9, 2003

velcromom--that is a great comeback! I do not listen to Dr.L all the time but I catch her show a few times a month. It just upset me because I know she has a huge audience (I think she has the second most syndicated show on radio after Rush Limbaugh). I am sure that her comments dissuaded many mothers from nursing in public. She does not accept e-mails but she takes faxes.

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LunaMom

· #8 · Oct 9, 2003

Does Dr. Laura really still have such a huge following? I thought most intelligent people had dismissed her as an idiot by now...although I guess having a not-so-intelligent following works in her favor.

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nemom2boys

· #9 · Oct 9, 2003

Please don't flame me, but I actually listen to and like Dr. Laura. No, I don't agree with everything she says, but I do agree with her main themes which are: mothers need to be there for their children & husbands need to be committed to their families. She also gives alot of advice about dealing with difficult people- she often talks about the fact that being a committed, loving, caring person doesn't mean you take people's crap (for example a poisonous mother in law). She gives good advice to people (both men and women) in idiotic relationships.

Anyway, I do like her but I'm very, very disappointed to hear that this is how she feels about nip. I'm also very surprised because she so highly values the role of the mother in a child's life. I will send her a fax.

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martiesmom

· #10 · Oct 11, 2003

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Originally posted by nemom2boys
Please don't flame me, but I actually listen to and like Dr. Laura. No, I don't agree with everything she says, but I do agree with her main themes which are: mothers need to be there for their children & husbands need to be committed to their families. She also gives alot of advice about dealing with difficult people- she often talks about the fact that being a committed, loving, caring person doesn't mean you take people's crap (for example a poisonous mother in law). She gives good advice to people (both men and women) in idiotic relationships.

Anyway, I do like her but I'm very, very disappointed to hear that this is how she feels about nip. I'm also very surprised because she so highly values the role of the mother in a child's life. I will send her a fax.

I listen to Dr. Laura too and do agree with a lot of what she promotes like what nemom2boys said. If I had listen to Dr. L's advice when I was in college I probably would've dumped my abusive boyfriend before he punched me. Anyway, I really was taken aback by Dr. L's comments about NIP. She talks about breasts being for babies to eat and then she agrees with this person who wrote the letter. Plus that person who wrote the letter doesn't have any kids, so I bet she'll eat her words when she finds herself having to deal with a child screaming for hunger. I bet you anything that she'll whip her breast out to nurse, instead of trying to find some closet to nurse in.

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nemom2boys

· #11 · Oct 12, 2003

Martiesmom- Dr. L may have been able to save me from an abusive boyfriend as well... unfortunately I was so naive and unhealthy that I married him and had a baby with him before I finally wised up and dumped the creep (for my sake and my son's).

Here is some of what I wrote:

...The reason so many are offended by nursing in public is because our society is hyper-sexualized. I think you would agree that this is a bad thing. Nursing in public is not a sexual act, as our hyper-sexualized society sees it, but is in fact a healthy example of femininity. It is a picture of a committed mother nurturing and caring for her infant.

Nursing in public is also a practical act. Breastfeeding is psychologically and physically healthy for an infant and for a mother. Unfortunately, most women in our country do not breastfeed (many start out breastfeeding, but quickly give it up). Practically speaking, if a mother has to hide every time an infant needs to nurse, the mother-child pair would be in seclusion for a very long time. Some babies need to nurse as often as every two hours or less. Many women choose not to even breastfeed at all because they would be embarrassed to nurse in public and feel that they would like to continue some semblance of a regular schedule which includes being out and about in public places.

You will find that even in the most modest, chaste societies, such as most Muslim countries, that breastfeeding in public is acceptable. Perhaps in our country if women were respected and valued for their nurturing role and if a woman's role of mother was more highly esteemed, breastfeeding wouldn't be seen as something lewd, but as something special and honored.

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