I wasn’t sure whether I’d be able to breastfeed because I have a liver condition and need daily steroid medication.
After discussions with my midwife and obstetrician, it was agreed that I could.
But when my daughter was born 11 weeks early and admitted to neonatal intensive care, I couldn’t breastfeed her directly. I expressed milk instead.
There were careful discussions about whether my milk was suitable for her and whether any surplus could safely be donated to other premature babies.
That’s how seriously infant feeding is normally treated: careful assessment, evidence and the baby’s welfare coming first.
Yet we’re now expected to applaud giving healthy men drugs to produce a few drops of milk-like secretion and treat it as equivalent to breastfeeding.
And this is before we even address the fact that many people would find the idea of a man wanting to breastfeed a baby deeply unsettling - and believe it raises legitimate safeguarding questions.
When did protecting adult feelings become more important than asking sensible questions about what’s in a baby’s best interests?
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3:30PM - Bharat Natya Manch
4PM - Gurnam Singh Chadooni
4:30PM - Ranjeet Yadav Sir
5PM - Colin Gonsalves
5:30PM - Kashif Sir
Condolences are rightly due for the heartbreaking devastation caused by the earthquakes in Venezuela.
But WHERE is the same empathy for Indian students who lost their lives due to the NEET paper leak and for those who died in the coaching centre fire in Lucknow? Not a SINGLE word by the Prime Minister on these tragedies. Why there has been no visit to the dead’s families? No announcement of financial relief for them? A government’s priorities are also reflected in what it chooses to remain SILENT about.
Do Indians deserve such a government?
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A man who wants to put a baby’s mouth around his nipple should prompt safeguarding questions.
A couple of men producing a few teaspoons of medically induced milk-like fluid is not scientific evidence that men can - or should - breastfeed babies.
If a man is experiencing gender distress to the extent that he wants to breastfeed a baby, it is reasonable to suggest he should be not be able to adopt or obtain a baby by any other means (e.g. surrogacy).
Saying this is not to suggest that all trans-identifying men are unsafe around children.
It is to recognise that men who are interested in breastfeeding babies may have a s*xual fetish - which is a clear safeguarding risk.
Which is precisely why we have to be able to discuss it openly - without accusations of bigotry shutting the conversation down. And question content like this - that seeks to normalise fetish behaviour.
Indeed accusations of bigotry around issues like this should surely make us question the motives of those trying to silence our questions.
Because what’s more important: protecting an adult from offence, or keeping children safe?
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Get this.
An Australian Breastfeeding Association (ABA) counselor told a trans he should not *breastfeed* and that it is a fetish.
He took her to COURT for "villification."
A breastfeeding expert testified in court that male "breastfeeding" is pus.