OT - Story in Closer magazine

[babyblog]

If you read the story fully-the woman shows upset and regret that her own baby didn't take to BF.She says that nursing the animals fulfils a need she has to have something suckling at her breast.Woman happy, baby happy, cat happy, dog happy. Simples.

 

[annawrigley]

Um, no. Thats just disgusting to me and I can't sway my opinion on it however open-minded I attempt to be. I wouldnt breastfeed my dad either, under any circumstances

 

[flubdub]

It doesnt make me feel horrible I wouldnt do it, no, but much wierdo/worse things happen everyday.
Shes not having sex with them, or abusing them.
1000's of animals are killed everyday so that people can eat them THAT makes me feel , NOT someone feeding a cat

Each to their own opinion, but to me, thats horrible.
I have read a story in a magazine not that long ago where the daughter had to breastfeed her dad....yes her dad. He had some kind of illness and apparently this breastmilk was curing him. She was like 30 and her dad was about 55.But she actualy let him suckle at the breast....didnt even express it and put it into a cup or anything....really horrible.

Personally, I'd express! Well, actually I wouldnt do it in the first place.

 

[bumpy_j]

i tried to look for the article and found this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeJWURhNh84

did a bit of an 'awwweeeew'

 

[ShanandBoc]

Hm well i wouldnt breastfeed my pets, but hey each to their own.

What about if she gave them expressed breast milk? I dont think anyone would object to that would they?

 

[flubdub]

I was just in my doctors this morning funnily enough, and picked up a magazine, which i never do, and this was on the front of it. Then I come home and the threads been bumped!

 

[Blah11]

Its not much different to us drinking cows milk BUT, must feel horrid to have an animal sucking away at you

 

[KaceysMummy]

I find it really weird people don't find this strange...
Its just not right, its a cat!
Yeah we drink cows milk but not straight from the udder - and IMO its not even similar!
Lots of women can't breast feed but you don't see them all feeding their cats!
And as for the woman who fed her own dad if it was that important why not express it out if she really felt the need... I just don't get it! x

 

[elephant29]

I get that BF is in no way sexual etc etc etc...however there has surely got to be limits to what is deemed acceptable. Surely?

People very often seem to be caught up in a sort of feeling that anything 'out there' that involves BF shouldnt be thought of as wierd just because it involves BF!! To me, BF a dog and a cat is quite odd.

The age old argument of 'well we drink from cows' doesnt actually excuse the fact that for someone to let their pet suckle from their breast is slightly off.

In extreme circumstances such as the monkeys and the man with cancer I can kind of see how selfless the person is being. I would feel extremely wierd letting a relative BF directly from me but if they were at risk of dying and I couldnt express then of course I would do this, but I wouldnt expect someone to find it normal.

I certainly wouldnt expect someone to find it normal that I BF a dog or a cat!

xxx

 

[Tasha]

Animal mouths are not really clean are they?

Maybe she cant express so that is why she doesnt express for them or donate to a milkbank. Maybe she doesnt fit the criteria for milk donation, i think it was blah who said it is really difficult in the UK.

 

[Sarahkka]

The story doesn't really bother me. there are lots of examples of mammals stepping in to nurse each other interspecially. Not sure I think this is a big deal. I don't know if it would be my choice, but I don't get any feelings of revulsion from it.
As others have said, there are far worse things in the world to get upset about. I wouldn't waste my energy getting all indignant or flipped out over this, personally.

Also - anyone else read John Steinbeck's incredible novel about the Great Depression, The Grapes of Wrath? Remember that scene at the end where the woman feeds the starving man straight from her breast? Talk about the milk of human kindness....

I just see acts of nurturing here. Nothing to get reviled by.