And that's fine, too. Our society has this movement within it that breastfeeding is best and if you don't do it you're selfish and don't love your babies. Fuck them. While it is good for the baby, Doing it for more than a year is overkill and it just creeps me the fuck out to see a kid who has teeth and can walk and go to the bathroom for himself sucking on his mommy's titty. It seems like there is something incestuous about it and it seems icky. Everyone in my family breast fed their babies when I was little. It was natural to see a cousin or an aunt sitting with a blanket over their shoulder and the baby's head, occasionally burping and readjusting. I watched. They let me because I was curious. I had a few cousins who couldn't breast feed, and no one said a thing.
This whole mom movement is fine, but it's rigid and rude. My best friend didn't have a lot of milk. She had to supplement with formula, but she did what she could with my goddaughter for a year. Her husband and I did nearly had to throw down because he said she just wasn't a good enough mother. I almost drove myself to St Louis and knocked his teeth out. He was in the room when she told me about it on the phone and he could hear me screaming for ten minutes. He was super careful for months after that and didn't make the mistake of hurting her feelings like that again. I'm a big girl. I may not be strong, but I'd have sat on that asshat and he'd have gotten the point.
Stay out of other people's houses. We are not the GOP. It's none of anyone's business, unless of course it's your best friend and her husband is a total patriarchal asshat. 
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