I was watching Breaking Bad (FX, very funny show), on which a new baby had been born. In one scene, the aunt is holding the baby who begins a prefuss, mom takes baby and breastfeeds (horrible looking latch, but it was just pretending with a doll at that point), aunt's husband complains that she is "doing that" at the table, his wife tells him to grow up, and that ends the conversation with mom still nursing. I ways saying "Yeah!" Next scene, baby wakes up in the middle of the night, crying that horrible cry of a way hungry baby... dad rolls out of bed, telling mom he'll handle it, and you see him giving the baby a bottle (of what? couldn't tell the color of milk) in the living room, and I am booing and screaming at the tv...
So, I'm glad to see so many of us yell, positively or negatively, at the tv... and it's not just my craziness.
Joylyn Souter
--
And this above all
To thine own self be true
And then it must follow
As the night follows the day
That thou can be false
To no other man
---- Susan Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> ... also the radio, novels, short stories, the odd poem, occasional store displays ...
>
> I think my family would prefer cursing. Instead I spout stats and colorful analogies unappreciated by teens. We haven't had tv reception for a few years and recently it's leaking back so there may be more talking to the box.
>
> Years ago when my daughter was about four the two of us walked in on a television program featuring a birth. I thought we were about to enjoy a lovely mother-daughter moment when the "birth" suddenly turned into an "emergency C section." I'll never forget my young daughter jumping up and down screaming "No cutting! No cutting!" My daughter is the product of a C section but at that young age had already heard and understood quite a bit on the subject, listening to circles of women while playing. I strongly suspect, and hope, she has normal birth and breastfeeding experiences ahead of her!
>
> Susan Johnson MFA, IBCLC, RLC
> Salt Lake City, Utah USA
> Judy made me chuckle when she mentioned in a post "It's what I yell at the
> TV every time this is covered ..."
>
> Lactnet has been so darned serious lately -- let's lighten it up a bit.
>
> How many of us habitually yell at the TV when breastfeeding (or formula use)
> are mentioned?
>
> I plead guilty as to TV ... and the newspaper.
>
> --
> Liz Brooks JD IBCLC
> Wyndmoor, PA, USA
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> Not only do I admit to swearing loudly at the TV with every obvious
> ommission of breastfeeding, but my kids and husband blanch at the first
> sight of a bottle fed baby on TV as they know what the reaction is going
> to be!
>
> Karen Palmer
> New Zealand
>
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