What do you mean 'if men had breasts' ? <BR>Most Americam men DO have them, along with their massive guts & their sagging behinds !

Re-write the term troll to mean small, ugly person who lives on pond-scum under bridges and apply it to the jerkowitz who went looking back through 4 months of posts to resurrect this one. Quintessential troublemaker with WAY too much time on his hands.

Steve asks a fair question and it is relevant. My wife has breast-fed amongst family, at the airport, on planes, at restaurants, at parks, on the beach etc., etc.. It's good for the kids and studies say that women who have breast-fed get breast cancer to a lesser degree than other women. Breast-feeding outfits are specially made these days to allow the mother to feed the child without revealing much of anything to the general public. The only trouble my wife ever got for breast-feeding in public was from a Catholic-conversion class she took a couple of years ago. A couple of nasties prevailed upon a very weak priest to ask my wife to leave the classroom when breast-feeding. Pretty pathetic and a little shameful for a Church that allegedly desires more children.

I am all for nursing in public. Last week, my girlfriend and I were at a JCPennys and she let me nurse right there next to the show department.

But Frank, that's precisely WHY the Catholic Church wouldn't want more breastfeeding. It impairs fertility=fewer kids. Worldwide average space between kids in countries where exclusive breastfeeding and no artificial contraception is the norm=4 years. I used to sit right in the front pew when I was nursing kids. The only one who could see was the priest and he never said anything.

You have a point, Anna, you sly young lady. Our third child has breast-fed the longest (he's 18 months) and my wife didn't start to menstruate again until the boy was nine months old. We didn't succeed in baby-making until 5 weeks ago. As I am 41 and my wife 34, breast-feeding will be limited to six months with the next child.

Just because a lactating woman doesn't typically have a menstrual cycle, please do not assume that she is not ovulating! If you do not believe me, ask your ob/gyn!

Okay, I'll ask my ob/gyn.

Seriously, my wife and I haven't used birth control for years and we still have a hard time getting pregnant until she starts getting her period.

Gosh Frank, thanks for sharing. Would you like to post a picture of your wife in labor too, while you're at it?

How many kids do you want to have? Are you trying to have your own baseball team? also, why woould you want to have your kids that close together anyway. I have 4 yo and plan on having 1 more child but haven't even started to think about trying again yet. I don't want to pay for dayare for more than 1 child at a time so we plan to wait till this one is at least in kindergarten. furhtermore, I an't imagine having 2 toddlers running around at the same time, one is tiring enough. We figure if our hild is at least 6 when little bro/sis is born, he an at least understand when we ask him to behave and play quietly so that we don't have 2 kids up at night, 2 kids with diapers, etc. etc. how do people do it having kids in a row? Just for the record, I didn't breatfeed with my first and won't with my second either. These days with the formula that comes n powder form in little pakets where you just open add water and have an instant bottle, the convenience is something I just can't pass up. To me that would be like choosing to wash loth diapers over the widely sold disposables (somehting I would never do!)

Did anybody see "Shrek"? It's about a troll, get it? Maybe if it was about breastfeeding on an airplane or on Bourbon Street...

We're having this debate over which Red Roof to stay in later in June when we got to WV for the wedding. Yes, some of you will recall she's the one who put up with the abuser for fifteen years. Well, we're past that now, and dealing with this newer thorny issue of cheap motels, interstate noise and proximity to the exit. Look, this is my dime, and not my partner's, so I might as well say right up front I favor the roofer at I64 and McCorkle Avenue, or exit 54 for the few who may favor us with local insight. At $49.95 it may be a steal, or is it more likely "I came as a stranger and they took me in" ... or as the Bard might say were he among us and travelling life's interstates these days to Lear in rap over the waves, ah, therein's the rub. Perhaps red roof is allegorical to this discussion. Or maybe not. But we're at the phone booth, used our last coins, and night is closing in. We need an answer, and you're our last hope. Ci.. (tone)

Leone (L.) <BR>Please don't hang up. I need a clue re: above post. Can't seem to figure this one out. Does it have to do with an old Valdosta thread?

Saw Shrek, he's an Ogre, not a troll.

Gee --- I wonder if these men would have a problem with that breast being seen in public if it didn't have a baby attached to it??!!!

"?????" doesn't get it. She is hopelessly selfish. Let's see: she works and sends her kid to day jungle, she won't permit him/her to have a sibling playmate until he/she is too old to enjoy the playmate and will banish him/her to the corner when they are curious or want to play with the infant, and she feeds by bottle because it is selfishly convenient to pour powder and water in a bottle. <BR> <BR>"?????" just forget about the fact that it has been proven to be better for the baby: breastfed babies are sick less often, have less orthodontic problems because of better jaw formation due to the different suckling pattern with breast than bottle, and some studies show that breastfed babies may be smarter. I guess "?????" will live with her increased risk of breast cancer. Mother's who breastfeed cut their risk of breast cancer significantly with increased risk reduction with more accumulative years of breastfeeding. <BR> <BR>We have a lot of children because we love children. I can't really say that it sounds like you love your child. You only want the child selfishly on your terms and whoa if anything inconveniences you in the slightest or may be better for the child and less convenient for you. Wait until your child grows to be a teenager. Your years of example by taking the easy way out and never inconveniencing yourself will come back to bite you in the butt. Selflessness and charity will probably not be reflected in your child(ren) because you show none of it.

Dear: a (Frank's wife), <BR>WELL SAID!!!!!!!!!

guess what? I am still breastfeeding my toddler and (horror of horrors) I use cloth diapers. I must still live in the dark ages. But I have to agree that a little thought to the spacing of children is a good idea, but maybe not for the reasons stated by ???.

A question for ?????? After you use the little packets and finish feeding the baby, don't you have a bottle to carry around, wash, etc.? NOTHING beats breastfeeding for convenience! Also,my pediatrician told me nearly 30 years ago that breastfed babies have fewer and less serious allergies, among other advantages. <BR> <BR>I had a friend while I was in high school whose only sibling was six years older than she was. She said she always felt like an only child (and she meant lonely). In addition, I think that the longer a child is the only child, the harder it will be to adjust to a new sib. You may find the older one waking up with nightmares or wetting the bed in an unconcious desire to get some of the "babying" that the baby is getting. BTW, even a 4- or 5-year-old can be a lot of help with a baby or toddler (playing with, running to get a diaper or a toy, helping to feed, etc.