Social stress
Jul. 18th, 2006 03:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
So my NCT social event is over, and two women came, one with an external baby and one with an internal baby. They were lovely, if a bit more interested in adult-led weaning than I am, and stayed for about an hour, and it was fine. Now I'm feeling angry and stressed.
I'm annoyed, as far as I can tell, because I find it very hard to clamp down on my strong feelings about various things baby-related, but I do, and other people seem to me to be less reluctant to speak out to strangers on these matters. (Online journals don't count as talking to strangers; if you don't like what I say you can click away). I tried to be as moderate as possible on the topic of eco-disposables and cloth nappies, and on breastfeeding (I really, really stayed very quiet about breastfeeding, and didn't even mention that I'm still feeding Linnea, which felt very like not being Out), and I didn't even enthuse too much about sling use, though I did tell the pregnant woman that feeding a baby in a sling was a valuable skill and she's welcome to come and practice with my slings once her baby's external, before she buys one of her own.
They were nice, but I feel self-repressed, and that leaves me feeling a bit bitter. Ho hum.
I'm annoyed, as far as I can tell, because I find it very hard to clamp down on my strong feelings about various things baby-related, but I do, and other people seem to me to be less reluctant to speak out to strangers on these matters. (Online journals don't count as talking to strangers; if you don't like what I say you can click away). I tried to be as moderate as possible on the topic of eco-disposables and cloth nappies, and on breastfeeding (I really, really stayed very quiet about breastfeeding, and didn't even mention that I'm still feeding Linnea, which felt very like not being Out), and I didn't even enthuse too much about sling use, though I did tell the pregnant woman that feeding a baby in a sling was a valuable skill and she's welcome to come and practice with my slings once her baby's external, before she buys one of her own.
They were nice, but I feel self-repressed, and that leaves me feeling a bit bitter. Ho hum.
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Date: 2006-07-18 03:23 pm (UTC)I have actually found another mother at Kate's schools who has similar views to me, uses a sling, uses cloth & is breastfeeding her nearly 1 year old. She's the only one out of all the dozens, possibly hundreds, of mothers I have known / met in rl. I've nevere, ever seen anyone use cloth when out, apart from myself & I've even demoonstrated how easy / cool looking it all is, but no-one ever bites.
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Date: 2006-07-18 05:00 pm (UTC)YoungBloke is cloth-nappied most of the time (including when out, depending on how long we're going to be out for) and still breastfed and he's NEARLY THREE!!!
I never got on with slings, but we wilkinetted for months.
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Date: 2006-07-18 09:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-07-19 08:36 am (UTC)