BS: Salma Hayek breastfeeding flack

Subject: RE: BS: Salma Hayek breastfeeding flack
From: olddude
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 11:59 AM

My goodness what is the world coming to ... and another persons baby. Well I am no doctor but I would think mothers milk is the same regardless of the woman ya know.   Any act of kindness anymore is met with some type of rock throwing ...


I really think the press or whatever that does the criticism thinks breasts are just for looking at ... the whole world is nuts. It is like OH MY GOSH she is breast feeding her baby in public ... So what. In this world there is nothing as important as a baby. Kids are all we have in this life that makes any sense to me

Good grief what has this world come to

Good Grief

Subject: RE: BS: Salma Hayek breastfeeding flack
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 11:59 AM

Breastmilk:
It is sterile
It is wholesome
It comes at the right temperature
It comes in the containers fathers prefer!

Subject: RE: BS: Salma Hayek breastfeeding flack
From: Megan L
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 11:52 AM

Heck there is a whole generation that didny ken breasts had milk in them it came frae a bottle wie a wee rubber sooker on the end.

Subject: RE: BS: Salma Hayek breastfeeding flack
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 11:48 AM

As you said Teribus, the practice USED TO BE quite common. No, not everybody is familiar with the term "wet-nurse" these days.

Subject: RE: BS: Salma Hayek breastfeeding flack
From: Teribus
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 11:42 AM

"I don't think the reaction has been because she was breastfeeding - it was that she was breastfeeding someone elses child. That is not as common and I think people are just reacting because they have not heard of it before."

Anybody ever heard of the term "Wet-Nurse" - the practice used to be quite common and sought after for a number of very good, logical reasons.

Subject: RE: BS: Salma Hayek breastfeeding flack
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 11:39 AM

I suspect that throughout time this process of "cross nursing" has always been part of the human framework. What nursing mother HASN'T been somewhere without her child, say, in a grocery store, heard another infant start the familiar hunger cry, and had to press her forearms against her nipples to suppress the tingle of a letdown? We're wired to feed babies. If you nursed for a long time that tingle still happens even long after the nursing has stopped.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Salma Hayek breastfeeding flack
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 11:37 AM

I don't think the reaction has been because she was breastfeeding - it was that she was breastfeeding someone elses child. That is not as common and I think people are just reacting because they have not heard of it before. I would not demean anyone who is ignorant of the facts. What she did was help educate people, and the natural reaction is a healthy sign that people are discussing this and it brings more attention to the issue of hunger.

Subject: RE: BS: Salma Hayek breastfeeding flack
From: GUEST,Mr Yeahbut
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 11:26 AM

History lesson:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_nurse

Subject: RE: BS: Salma Hayek breastfeeding flack
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 11:20 AM

There really are some pretty strange people around.   (And I don't mean this lady.)

Subject: RE: BS: Salma Hayek breastfeeding flack
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 10:56 AM

Thanks for sharing the story, Wesley. It's a beautiful image and it is wonderful that she could do this.

I wouldn't have hesitated a moment in her place. And it is great that she is such a high-profile nursing mother, that her child is a year old and still nursing, all of these things are important messages.

I nursed both of mine until they were about 2 1/2. After the first year or so it drops back to just a few times a day, generally morning, naptime, and bedtime, you're not the sole source of food. But nursing into the toddler years does protect your children, and being able to nurse another child won't deprive her own child who should now be able to compensate on this occasion with another helping of oatmeal.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Salma Hayek breastfeeding flack
From: katlaughing
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 10:54 AM

Good for her! How could a lactating woman see a starving baby and not feed it?!

Subject: RE: BS: Salma Hayek breastfeeding flack
From: KB in Iowa
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 10:50 AM

This is straight out of 'The Grapes of Wrath'

I guess no good deed goes unpunished.

Subject: RE: BS: Salma Hayek breastfeeding flack
From: Wesley S
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 10:44 AM

Local radio stations had folks calling in and calling her weird for doing this.

Subject: RE: BS: Salma Hayek breastfeeding flack
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 10:43 AM

She is receiving some flak; I didn't mean to imply that it was Time creating the flack, if that's what you inferred from my post.

Subject: RE: BS: Salma Hayek breastfeeding flack
From: meself
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 10:32 AM

Is she receiving flak? The Time story is supportive of her, although it does mention "online reactions" that are "squeamish" - which does not necessarily equate with disapproving.

Subject: RE: BS: Salma Hayek breastfeeding flack
From: wysiwyg
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 10:06 AM

breastfeeding flack

Well she ought to feed BABIES, then, not flack. :~)

I refer her critics to Mowgli.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Salma Hayek breastfeeding flack
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 10:03 AM

I saw that story. I'm still scratching my head over criticisms of her humane action that's ensued.

Subject: BS: Salma Hayek breastfeeding flack
From: Wesley S
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 10:00 AM

Talk about a mountain out of a molehill:

Time magazine story

Actress Salma Hayek has received flack for breastfeeding another womans baby. Nevermind that both the mother and baby were starving. I think she deserves a pat on the back for doing the right thing. Where do these taboos come from anyway? How silly can people be. When you find a starving child you feed it. End of story.