Comments on: The ostentatious breastfeeder

By: Amy Ransom

Amy Ransom — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 04:46:52 +0000

Spot on Molly. I share your confusion. WHAT is the issue here? They’re boobs. They make milk. Babies like milk…

Get over it people.

(Hope you’re well lovely x)

By: Catherine

Catherine — Sun, 07 Dec 2014 21:49:05 +0000

Great post Molly. The cynic in me says he’s doing it to be invited on to Woman’s Hour (as he has done before) just to get air time. I never had one complaint from anyone when I breastfed my two and that was in the eighties and nineties. In fact, I was complimented by cabin crew for the best behaved baby on a flight!!! I swear some people have regressed!!!

By: Milly

Milly — Sun, 07 Dec 2014 20:42:58 +0000

He’s a first-class moron that Farage isn’t he? It frightens me that people take him seriously and that there’s any remote possibility that he might have some influence on the running of the country. That idiots like him can be partly responsible for mothers feeling self-conscious about doing the most natural thing in the world makes me furious. I agree, I hope my daughter doesn’t have to put up with any of this nonsense in the future.

By: Molly

Molly — Sun, 07 Dec 2014 11:08:36 +0000

No, I’m pretty sure you’ve nailed the rhyming there!

By: Molly

Molly — Sun, 07 Dec 2014 11:08:08 +0000

Oh please don’t let idiots make you feel self-conscious! I know exactly how you feel because I was the same with my first daughter. I planned to express and do the bottle thing in public too – but my baby would never take a bottle so I didn’t have a choice! This time around I just don’t have time for constant expressing and, to be honest, it’s such a faff I’m too lazy! x

By: Molly

Molly — Sun, 07 Dec 2014 11:06:51 +0000

It’s a joke really isn’t it?! Seems that if your baby is nosy and bobs off the boob for a look around then you’d be guilty of “ostentatious breastfeeding”. As if feeding your baby is an attention-seeking activity. Every mum I know would rather just get on with it without an audience – myself included!

By: Carie

Carie — Sat, 06 Dec 2014 09:37:45 +0000

Oh I really hope that by the time our daughters are mothers this will be all old hat! After three children and four and a bit years of nursing I clearly have no shame and I’m entirely unselfconscious about it but even then I draw the line at nipple tassels and can can dancing on the tables – though I think my son might be trying out the can can dancing he’s such a wriggler. I’ve fed my babies when they need feeding and I’m pretty sure you’d have to really look and know what you were looking for to be certain that I wasn’t just giving them a cuddle – I’d love to know whether they thought that was ostentatious!

By: Kelly

Kelly — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 22:40:42 +0000

I have been freaking out for months about the “breasfeeding in public” thing to such an extent that I actually think I’ll need to express because I’ll feel too self conscious – reading stupid remarks from, arguably two of the biggest tits alive (Farage + Kim) just compounds the issue and makes first time mums who want to try feel even worse about it!

By: Katy Hill

Katy Hill — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 22:31:20 +0000

Well said lady! It’s the most ridiculous argument EVER. I never did master the “in public” thing as I think I was so stressed about it, my kids would sense something was up and bob off for a good look around, thus exposing boobage… which handily rhymes with Farage… AND Tosspot. Oh no… wait?! *checks rhyming dictionary

By: Molly

Molly — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 21:33:58 +0000

I know! He said in his interview it should be up to businesses to decide their policy – but that’s just a massive step backwards! Usually I manage to blank out much of what Farage says but this one hit home.