tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824498722063465184.post3198584405175220716..comments2023-03-30T03:30:10.912+11:00Comments on The Mother Load: The Status Of Childbirth (My Media Bugbear)The Mother Load (Australia)http://www.blogger.com/profile/17184903707604495342noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824498722063465184.post-77647743644352502892013-08-01T21:05:13.362+10:002013-08-01T21:05:13.362+10:00Beautifully put, OSL. I was forced to give up brea...Beautifully put, OSL. I was forced to give up breastfeeding much sooner than I wanted to for medical reasons and I swear that guilt and failure consumed me for much longer than it should have. <br /><br />The 'Motherhood Expectation' is crippling and the media's ability to twist the knife on occasion is cruel.The Mother Load (Australia)https://www.blogger.com/profile/17184903707604495342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824498722063465184.post-34267563361822099522013-08-01T10:44:00.252+10:002013-08-01T10:44:00.252+10:00Totally agree Mother, I hate all this crap.
I do ...Totally agree Mother, I hate all this crap.<br /><br />I do feel like a freaking warrior for giving birth twice "naturally", but in one of those instances it was a matter of literally minutes between natural birth and emergency c-section, and entirely out of my hands.<br /><br />I still would have been a warrior, but perhaps would have felt less so because of some strange sense of failure (failing at what, I ask myself!!).<br /><br />Breastfeeding is the same. I feel like a total hero for breast feeding both my kids to 12months plus, but that in no way means I look down upon women who (for an absolute myriad of reasons that I will never be privy to) may have opted for other means.<br /><br />The bottle is not wrong or less, the c-sec is not wrong or less and talking about these issue in these ways helps no-one.<br /><br />xxOneSmallLifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10969675623452075422noreply@blogger.com