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	sorchar 2006-06-07 09:40 am UTC (link)
	But didn't you know that even if you adopt you should try to breastfeed? Seriously, people do this. I've known one woman personally who did. Thus, ALL adoptive mothers must do it. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	joie 2006-06-07 10:13 am UTC (link)
	What happens if you adopt a weened toddler? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	suziecroft 2006-06-07 10:36 am UTC (link)
	Breastfeed it. EVERYBODY MUST BE BREASTFED. DO NOT QUESTION THE UNHOLY POWER OF BREASTMILK!!!!!!1!!111 (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	iwanttobeasleep 2006-06-07 05:34 pm UTC (link)
	BREASTFEEDING IS NOT UNHOLY YOU OPPRESSOR! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sorchar 2006-06-07 10:38 am UTC (link)
	It's too late. You will never bond with the kid. May as well get used to a lifetime of misery and heartbreak. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

mathilde
2006-06-07 01:48 pm UTC (link)

True story: sitting with two of my coworkers, one of which brought his kid into work. (Yeah. Don't ask.) The other confides that he and his wife have been trying to have a baby for a few years, nothing's happening, and they've decided to adopt. Offspring-enabled coworker goes "yeah, but you'll never bond with the baby right. You need to be with them from the very beginning." I'm like, "yeah. too bad they didn't think of that before they so wilfully FAILED TO BE FERTILE." Ugh.

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	gusty 2006-06-07 02:43 pm UTC (link)
	Wow. That's just pure classy right there. Funny. I'm able to bond just fine with plenty of people which I certainly haven't known since birth. I must be gifted or something. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ladybirdsleeps 2006-06-07 03:46 pm UTC (link)
	I'm sure my adopted Romanian and Russian cousins would have something to say to that asshole. It'd probably involve kicking. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sorchar 2006-06-07 03:58 pm UTC (link)
	Wow, way to be an unhelpful asshole there. some people need to be smacked. A lot. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	azawakh 2006-06-07 04:20 pm UTC (link)
	What a tactless bitch. Because, really, humans are like chickens and can only bond with one individual from the moment of ~~hatching~~ birth. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	mookie 2006-06-07 06:09 pm UTC (link)
	Maybe he could go fling that opinion at the army mom from a previous wank, the one who got attacked for leaving her child with her mother for six months while she took care of her obligations to the US military. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	missdaisy 2006-06-07 07:11 pm UTC (link)
	How does someone that stupid hold a job? My older daughter is more bonded with her adopted father than she is with me, her birth mother. That's probably because I didn't breastfeed her. Woe is me. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	nicolae 2006-06-07 07:30 pm UTC (link)
	I know people who say that about dogs -- that if you don't get a puppy you'll never bond with it. I didn't realize people said it about children, too. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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sorchar, 2006-06-07 08:40 pm UTC

	glossing2 2006-06-07 02:01 pm UTC (link)
	Or take in a foster kid? I can't see Children's Aid, or whatever the local equivalent would be, looking too kindly on me holding some poor kid up to my tit until I lactate. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	puipui 2006-06-07 05:33 pm UTC (link)
	I can't see Children's Aid, or whatever the local equivalent would be, looking too kindly on me holding some poor kid up to my tit until I lactate. Depending on how old the kid is, it'd probably just prompt them to take the kid right back, at the very least. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	b_jellybean 2006-06-07 12:49 pm UTC (link)
	I ended up on a site about that, and they mentioned that there was an older method where you just kinda put the kid to your breast and hoped that eventually, if you kept doing it, someday you'd start to produce milk. I just kept thinking how confused that baby must get. "What? Why am I here? Nothing's happening!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	mathilde 2006-06-07 01:46 pm UTC (link)
	It actually doesn't take that long to induce lactation, and there are drugs and herbs you can take to speed things along. But still, the baby's got to eat something in the meantime... too bad no one's invented a substance that would cover such situations. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	b_jellybean 2006-06-07 02:06 pm UTC (link)
	I knew about the drugs (which makes sense, considering there's dsrugs to stop lactation) but I'm glad to hear it doesn't take long, because all joking aside, that seems like such a sad sort of wait, hoping that one day it'll happen. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	puipui 2006-06-07 05:35 pm UTC (link)
	But still, the baby's got to eat something in the meantime... too bad no one's invented a substance that would cover such situations. Gosh, wouldn't that be wonderful if someone did? Oh, how helpful it would be to women who can't lactate for whatever reason, or to single fathers, or... gosh, just everyone! Oh, if only! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sorchar 2006-06-07 04:11 pm UTC (link)
	"This place has shitty service! No tip for them!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	b_jellybean 2006-06-07 05:53 pm UTC (link)
	The kid ends up on bad_service, the mom on customers_suck. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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notmonkey
2006-06-08 12:35 am UTC (link)

There was this woman on this documentary who breastfed her son until he was five because she wanted to keep her milk flowing for the Chinese orphan she'd been trying to adopt for the past four years.

The Chinese orphan, when she arrived, was eighteen months, weaned, and really didn't seem too happy about having a tit shoved in her face every five minutes, but this woman was determined to the point of being scary.

There was also another woman who was still breastfeeding her TEN YEAR OLD.

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	sorchar 2006-06-08 12:39 am UTC (link)
	Good Lord. I'm surprised she let the doctor cut the cord. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

notmonkey
2006-06-08 12:54 am UTC (link)

She was a bit weird. Her kids were sat around drawing pictures of mummy's breasts and giving them cutesy nicknames, which was strange and sinister coming from an eight and ten year old.

I was wondering when this wank would show up - I hardly paid attention to it on LJ. All I thought was "*snigger* Titwank" and rolled my eyes a bit, which surely makes me a callous individual and a bad feminist, but hey, I was bottlefed.

IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT, MOTHER! ;-)

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	chibicurmudgeon 2006-06-11 02:08 am UTC (link)
	Aaaand that's all kinds of fucking wrong. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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