BOOBIES! Sixty-four to be precise
I just covered the National Breastfeeding Week's launch with the breastfeeding challenge.
Or the 'feeding frenzy' as I came to think of it.
Look there's nothing wrong with breasts, definitely nothing wrong with breastfeeding, but I still was scared by it. Not in the scream and run away, more like the turn around and try not to make eye contact with someone's boob.
But...
EVERYWHERE I TURNED THERE WAS A BOOB! Sometimes TWO! There was a mother nursing TWINS in a corner.
Then one of the supporters (a former mother whose children are all grown up), said "One day that's going to be you."
I made a horrified face and a mother walking by started laughing at me.
That thought scared me the most. I'm 24, single, and loving the fact that I'm not tied down. To me a baby is responsibility, maturity, and giving them a stable environment (aka being tied down).
And I'm not patient. I'd probably end up poking the baby after a couple of months and going "Hey, you, when you going to college?"
More power to mothers and mothers that breastfeed. But I am definitely not ready for THAT kind of commitment.
Or the 'feeding frenzy' as I came to think of it.
Look there's nothing wrong with breasts, definitely nothing wrong with breastfeeding, but I still was scared by it. Not in the scream and run away, more like the turn around and try not to make eye contact with someone's boob.
But...
EVERYWHERE I TURNED THERE WAS A BOOB! Sometimes TWO! There was a mother nursing TWINS in a corner.
Then one of the supporters (a former mother whose children are all grown up), said "One day that's going to be you."
I made a horrified face and a mother walking by started laughing at me.
That thought scared me the most. I'm 24, single, and loving the fact that I'm not tied down. To me a baby is responsibility, maturity, and giving them a stable environment (aka being tied down).
And I'm not patient. I'd probably end up poking the baby after a couple of months and going "Hey, you, when you going to college?"
More power to mothers and mothers that breastfeed. But I am definitely not ready for THAT kind of commitment.