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AW: Proud of my big kid (BF related)

SteelCityBrideSteelCityBride member
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This weekend we visited friends who have an almost 2 month old baby boy. My SS is 7 & ever since we brought E home from the hospital, I've been completely open with BFing. I BF in the living room & have never hid it. At the beginning he asked a lot of questions, which we answered, but now he doesn't even notice.

So while at our friends house, the new mama saids he needed to feed the baby & asked if I wanted her to go upstairs to BF him. OMG, NO!!! She said she didn't know how Matthew (SS) would react or if I was OK with her BFing in front of him. I told her absolutely, we are a BFing friendly family & I BF infront of him daily.

But then I was curious how he would react to someone else BFing, as I'm the only one he's ever seen do it.  Soon enough I had my answer. He didn't react at all. He was running around their living room playing with their dog, running right past the BFing mama & never said anything or even looked at her. It was completely normal to him. I didn't say anything to him or DH about it, but I counted it as a personal victory :)  I'm raising him to know it's a completely normal & natural thing & he did just what I hoped he would do :) 

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Re: AW: Proud of my big kid (BF related)

  • QuazelQuazel member
    Yes
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  • Lotte134Lotte134
    That's awesome!
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  • m_and_mm_and_m

    Yes

    I love it!!

    I'm so sad that DD now says babies eat from bottles because that's how I feed the kids I nanny (well, how I feed the newborn now and how I fed the 2yo when I first had him). She's been around lots of BF babies and kids (heck, she only weaned at her 3rd birthday!), but she sees these kids the most. I don't think I want any more kids, but maybe I should just so she can see it, lol.

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  • shainababygirlshainababygirl
    I have three nephews who were all at least partially BFed. Whenever we go up there around them, it's the most natural thing in the world for me to BF DD. And all of my DH's cousins (there are like 12 of them) don't even blink an eye! Even the boys in middle-high school. They've all grown up around it (each and EVERY one of them was BFed!) and so it's totally and completely normal to them!
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