SF - Explain how BF is a "fad"?

LillyBug923 · March 2009

SFAug07:

I won't do it. I feel very uncomfortable about it (and also about pumping) and I think it is really a fad that comes and goes. I was not breastfed, my sister wasn't, my DH wasn't, and we were all perfectly healthy children. It was just not common to breastfeed then. It's a personal choice.

MrsBeckO · March 2009

Guess I didn't read far enough into that thread to catch this gem.

A fad? I've heard a lot of BF/FF arguments, but that one's a first for me... A fad as in 'all the cool kids are doing it'??

k_leigh_d · March 2009

MrsBeckO:
Guess I didn't read far enough into that thread to catch this gem.
A fad? I've heard a lot of BF/FF arguments, but that one's a first for me... A fad as in 'all the cool kids are doing it'?

hahahaha!! you took the words right out of my mouth!!!!!!

thatgirlang · March 2009

Ooh... a BF post I am actually interested in.

K-I-S-S-I-N-G · March 2009

:::sings "One of these things is not like the others:" :::::

Skinny Jeans Leggings Breastfeeding

Indifferent

taelir · March 2009

Wow.

That's definitely one of the more uneducated remarks about BF'ing I've heard on here. I won't personally be BF'ing, but that's just a moronic statement to make.

MrsBeckO · March 2009

K-I-S-S-I-N-G:
:::sings "One of these things is not like the others:" :::::
Skinny Jeans????????? Leggings????????????? Breastfeeding

bwahaha!!! Perfect. ?

schmoodle · March 2009

Yeah, it may have been less common when many of us were young, but that doesn't make it a fad. As DH just said, "your boobs are there regardless of trends." Hehe.

LillyBug923 · March 2009

K-I-S-S-I-N-G:

:::sings "One of these things is not like the others:" :::::

Skinny Jeans Leggings Breastfeeding

I almost spit soda on my laptop!!

Anjelina and Nicole Ritchie both BF. And they are cool.

thatgirlang · March 2009

K-I-S-S-I-N-G:

:::sings "One of these things is not like the others:" :::::

Skinny Jeans Leggings Breastfeeding

Yes

AZ*Grl · March 2009

K-I-S-S-I-N-G:

:::sings "One of these things is not like the others:" :::::

Skinny Jeans Leggings Breastfeeding

Oh man that is funny...

LillyBug923 · March 2009

taelir:

Wow.

That's definitely one of the more uneducated remarks about BF'ing I've heard on here. I won't personally be BF'ing, but that's just a moronic statement to make.

Is it because you don't own skinny jeans and long necklaces?

sabrina69barnes · March 2009

I suppose the argument could be made that at one time formula feeding was a fad but I don't see how something as natural as breastfeeding could ever been considered a fad.

sam19 · March 2009

I don't see how an important, personal and usually private decision can be a fad. In response to her, "my parents didn't, DH's parents didn't" comment I would say that back then the women weren't getting the proper educational information on breastfeeding and all its benefits as they are now. It's a lot easier to get this information through the internet and our parents never had that resource. To call breastfeeding a fad is ridiculous.

Abc123 · March 2009

K-I-S-S-I-N-G:

:::sings "One of these things is not like the others:" :::::

Skinny Jeans Leggings Breastfeeding

I love this!!!!

taelir · March 2009

K-I-S-S-I-N-G:

:::sings "One of these things is not like the others:" :::::

Skinny Jeans Leggings Breastfeeding

Dude, you forgot jelly shoes. LMFAO

duckee88 · March 2009

K-I-S-S-I-N-G:

:::sings "One of these things is not like the others:" :::::

Skinny Jeans Leggings Breastfeeding

that one is my fave! a fad? I am wondering about this one.

manda_mullins · March 2009

Sooooooo

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the thousands of years where breast feeding was "coming" is the fad here, while the few decades where it was "going" are not.?

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hmm.?

LillyBug923 · March 2009

manda_mullins:

Sooooooo

the thousands of years where breast feeding was "coming" is the fad here, while the few decades where it was "going" are not.

hmm.

And you know those 3rd world countries are all up on our wacky American trends!

manda_mullins · March 2009

LillyBug923:
manda_mullins:

Sooooooo
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the thousands of years where breast feeding was "coming" is the fad here, while the few decades where it was "going" are not.?
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hmm.?
And you know those 3rd world countries are all up on our wacky American trends!

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Haha true! When they're not too busy starving they're all about trying to follow the latest trends!?

Sonya Flanagan · March 2009

the 80's was a fad.

Natural milk production that has happened since man... that's the best to give a child...

You're right, that's TOTALLY a fad.

You're an idiot.

dgurl26 · March 2009

K-I-S-S-I-N-G:
:::sings "One of these things is not like the others:" :::::

Skinny Jeans Leggings Breastfeeding

Tee hee

LoveEeyore · March 2009

Does that make my cat cool?

mrsbhk22 · March 2009

I didn't see the original thread, but I wonder if she means the % of women who BF kind of goes in cycles. For example, a lot of our grandmothers chose to do it, but our parents chose not to. Now our generation is chosing (as a whole group) to do it more than our parents generation. There were a lot of "other" factors in the equation (i.e. the great depression, women's lib movement, formula, etc). I know when I was a kid, there was often the misconception that only poor people BF'd b/c if you were rich, you could afford formula. Now, the trend is the opposite - a higher % of educated women BF then less educated women. I'm not saying any of these sterotypes are right, but maybe this is what she intended by her FAD comment.

Unless she really ment some people BF b/c "All the cool kids are doing it....." Wink

Temp159135562506975 · March 2009

it is the "in" thing to do right now. When our moms were having kids (at least back when i was a baby 36 yrs ago) formula was the way to go- and moms who BF were looked down on.

while i don't see this as something that will go away since medical science has learned a lot in the past 30+ yrs - it was NOT popular to BF not too long ago.