I consider myself a natural parent because I feed my child myself & look after him by myself. no breaks or people coming over to help.
I breastfed Tom till he was 14 months old. He never took a bottle so it was me every 2-3 hours! It was hard, but I didn't consider myself a natural parent because of it. I praised any help I could get in between those feeds x
I've always been of the opinion if someone has help looking after a child as they can't cope alone then their not a parent but part care giver.
my sil has handed her son off to her mam/gran his entire life.
I don't consider her a natural mother.
Thankyou so much for this. Normally I can ignore comments and even though people are very anti FF and I FF from 9 weeks, and that can be deemed 'unnatural' etc it doesn't get to me I made the RIGHT choice for me. However this comment has seriously pissed me off!!! I have gone back to work this week, seriously reluctantly, cried everyday, both before, during and after leaving LO. Cried myself to sleep every night and generally felt like the worst mummy in the world. Despite the fact she is in the nursery where I work and I only work 5 hours a day. I DID NOT want to go back but there really is no other choice at this very precise minute. We are looking at options. So your snotty comment has really made me Cross and feel even worse than I did. Next time think hard before you jusge someone on being an 'unnatural' mummy because they leave their child. Not everyone can have the luxury of staying at home with them!!!!
Sorry for the rant everyone else, like I said normally nothing bothers me, I'm a natural mummy because I look after my girls in a way that is as natural as we can do and I am happy and secure in that.