I just wanted to come on here and vent... I am so sick of my family and their inconsiderate, no rude and inappropriate remarks about breastfeeding. I am the only person in my family to ever breastfeed their baby and this is the only one of my four that I have breastfed so I never realized how against it they are. My sister actually started gagging and almost threw up when she was feeding him a bottle of breastmilk last month and its to the point that I don't even feed him abound any of them I just give him a bottle of formula instead. Last night my sister said that I'm breastfeeding him because I am addicted to it whatever that means and that it is disgusting and the same thing as feeding my baby urine and a couple of weeks ago she even asked the baby if I had just molested him (referring to breastfeeding). My mom has made several comments about it being gross and that breastfed babies always look underfed, which he doesn't and when we were shopping she made a bunch of nasty comments about a woman that was feeding her older infant being disgusting and only feeding her baby for her own enjoyment. Granted I do personally think the woman could have been more discrete she had her entire breast out and her baby kept pulling off and looking around and she kept herself uncovered the entire time and there were lots of people around. I don't think a person should hide that they are breastfeeding but I do think you should be courteous to others around you and be as discrete as you can, but I don't cover my entire body and baby up I don't eat under a blanket so why should he have to. Obviously my family is just ignorant or they wouldn't make the comments that they do but it is very frustrating to be judged and criticized for something that should be normal and natural especially when what you really need after having a baby is support. I guess I shouldn't be surprised though they were completely unsupportive when I told them I was pregnant.
