Icky? WTF?

With all the talk about breastfeeding happening on the blogs/facebook/net lately, it's hard to click a link without running into a nice friendly debate. Not that I think there's much to debate. My most favorite (because it's alarming as hell) reason NOT to breastfeed that I've read so far? Because it's icky. Which I found here. Read the delightful comments. And, once one courageous mom was bold enough to put that out there, LOTS of other mom's chimed in echoing the icky war cry and patting her on the back for being so bold. Honey girls... this is what I have to say about that. If you think BREASTFEEDING is too icky to deal with as a new mom that says to me that you have not only bought into the American cultural notion that breasts are nothing but funbags for the boys, but that you don't actually have kids. Because really? Do you have a full time nanny or something to deal with all the truly icky things? Um, see my post poo hands. I'd take a milky boob over that any day.

Oh, and yeah, I know that there are rare instances when a woman truly is unable to breastfeed and it is especially sad when she really wants to. That's hard, and those women should not be made to feel guilty or inferior. And in the spirit of mom's shouldn't be pitting themselves against one another in a sort of of modern, blogosphere cage fight, I will say that how you feed your baby is, of course, your choice.  But I'm also not going to apologize that my feelings towards this tend more towards the mind boggling "WHY? is this such a debate?" instead of the, "hey man, live and let live".  I just can't get behind the "'I just think it is icky' moms" saying "breastfeeding isn't for everyone".   Breastfeeding is for every baby, "icky" for you or not. I realize fully how bitchy this whole post sounds. And I'm really not a bitchy person, but I do have strong feelings surrounding just how insidiously our culture has perverted nature right down to the very things that kept us alive as a species throughout time.