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I can’t believe I only posted three times last month. I guess after posting (almost) every day in November I needed a break and with my husband home for more than a week over Christmas my schedule was interrupted. I’ve been reading the breastfeeding news but so many other breastfeeding bloggers have been posting about it that I gave myself license to slack. But it’s a new year and I’m ready to get back into the swing of things.

I started off the year by watching live television, something I haven’t done in months. 20/20 aired an episode about extreme motherhood on Friday night. I missed the first segment but tuned in in time for a creepy bit about fake babies and the rest of the show. Unsurprisingly, I was annoyed and disappointed by the entire show.

The bit about home birth was sketchy at best and failed to consult with homebirth midwives. I’ve had two happy, successful hospital births and I was still irritated by the lack of information given in the segment.

The extended breastfeeding segment was the part I was most interested in seeing. As soon as the segment started I knew it wouldn’t be worth my while. The first woman profiled was nursing 2 1/2 year old twins. Seriously? That’s extreme? The rest of the segment was equally disappointing. Sure they managed to find a perfectly likable family with a mother still nursing a kindergartner, and the woman who nursed her kids until they were eight, but I felt like the segment was way too focused on the men and whether or not they were still getting sex from their wives.


Posted in General on January 5th, 2009

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