There Are Also Plenty Of Statues Of Naked Men, But That Doesn't Mean That Men Can Walk Around Naked.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4764594/Breast-feeding-mother-told-cover-V-Museum.html

[albaqwerty]

never judge a book by it's cover.
I've known a few adults aged between 21 -30 who look as if they are 17 or younger.

One still carries his passport around to prove his age.

[Sqad]

It'a all modern stuff this bringing up children......the medical profession trying to bring science into what used to be a simple concept. Demand feeding. When it cries.....feed it and that presumable is the only reason you would breast feed in public.
If one fed your child at "regular" intervals, would you go to the V&A just before feeding time? Yes, if you were an exhibitionist.
The only excuse i can think of for MS so and so is that she was demand feeding the child and the child demanded feeding whilst in the V&A.

[albaqwerty]

Talby, interesting, but surely if info is put on the internet it becomes public property and can be used?

[naomi24]

Another thought. If the child in question is only one and the mother claims to have breastfed for 3.5 years, that means she fed her first child for 2.5 years. Nah. All very fishy!

[Mamyalynne]

Aye Sqad , in my day when we were in t'fields we'd say 'Stop yer blubberin' you can have some more when t'sun's over Brampton's barn and not afore'.


Modern ways eh?

[pastafreak]

To say you've breastfed for x amount of time does not automatically mean continuously.

[albaqwerty]

maybe this is fake news?

[Mamyalynne]

The statues have been doing it continuously.

[THECORBYLOON]

The wee one is a year old until he is two surely? If he is nearer two than one, then each wee one could have been breastfed for about eighteen months.

We've already had folk saying between them that the mother is an attention seeker with dubious parental skills, whilst the wee one is fat, Asian in looks and forty-one months old.

Some appear to have forgotten it was the museum employee at fault and not the mother.

[pixie374]

The child looks about 15 months old. At a guess.

[-Talbot-]

I actually think the reporter turning up on her doorstep is a much bigger story.

[albaqwerty]

The DM won't report on that tho will it?

I'm thinking the mother should contact the Press Complaints thingy/whatnot.

[cassa333]

The fattest babies I have ever seen have been breast fed. This one seems the same.

One can argue about an appropriate age to ween a baby but there comes a point when a child should not be breast fed.

Personally the latest is when they can walk around themselves. Any later and it is a case of some sort of attachement issue the mother has. After that the child has been conditioned to it so will be reluctant to stop the habit. Which in itself is a 'validation' for the mother's attachment issues so the cycle continues way past appropriatness.

DAvid Williams and bitty comes to mind ...

[Mamyalynne]

Poor babe never asked to be born into such a judgemental society.

[youngmafbog]

I think the Twitface society will be the childs biggest problem. Very little good seems to come from these tools of the Devil.

[Mamyalynne]

Forums eh? Waste of space - you have point.

[TWR]

Another normal day situation taken out of all proportion.

[Sqad]

Twitface Society.....Judgemental Society?

This has always been the case in one form or the other...gossip, media, etc.....non of us "asked" to be born in any society, but we have,so get on with it. Judgemental attitudes in varying degrees will always be there and being born, race, colour,poverty, wealth, health will always be a lottery...........

[Peter Pedant]

// When it cries.....feed it and that..... //

can we identify gender when talking abut children please - it humanises them

"when the child cries, feed the little one".... if you dont know if the baby is a he or a she - or which end to feed ....

[Mamyalynne]

My judgemental remark was more regarding the number of adults who have had a pop at the child.