Alanis Morissette Will Breastfeed Her Son Until He's Had Enough Of Her Leche Knob, Thankyouverymuch
Just like Alicia Silverstone and Dr. Blossom, Alanis Morrissette is raising her 17-month-old son, Ever, the attachment parenting way and talked to Good Morning America (click here to see that shit) about it. It seems like it was just yesterday when Alanis was singing about going down on a dude in a theater and now she's going on about how she's okay with titty feeding her son during first grade recess.
Because of that Time magazine cover that won't ever go away, GMA asked Alanis about attachment parenting and she says that she knows it's not for everyone. Alanis' job allows her to bring son everywhere she goes. The only time they're apart is when she's on stage. They sleep together, eat together and go everywhere together. Ever will stop going mimi times when Alanis when he's ready to stop. Ever will retire his mouth from Alanis' nipple when he's ready to do so. When Alanis was asked if she's going to let Ever suck a meal out of her nip slit when he's six, she nodded yes.
"I'll stop whenever he wants. Some kids naturally stop at two, some stop at a couple of years later, its up to ever child. I will stop when he says it's time to stop."
I get that Alanis wants to be with Ever as much as possible and it works for her and her titty is there for him as long he wants it. I get all of that. But what I don't get is when does Alanis get mommy breakdown time? Does she take Ever into the bathroom with her, put him on the floor and let him watch as she gets into an empty tub fully clothed and downs a bottle of prosecco while drunkenly crying about how all she wants to do is spend one night getting boozed up in a bar without a baby attached to her titty? Because that could be awkward.
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This is just an off shoot of going to the extreme opposite of modern parenting. Giving birth and handing the baby off to strangers when six weeks old. If I had to choose I would go with dependent parenting.And if I was having a kid today I would move out of this country. It has become beyond trendy. French moms have it much better. Most work less than 25 hours a week when child is older. And have many weeks off a year. makes them less desperate. I hear it is changing though. Can't have family life sane. Nope. But the french don't hover over children. And they still enjoy themselves with other adults. meaning the children don't rule their universe.
If you're breastfeeding, you aren't supposed to drink alcohol or take medications that could be harmful to the child, correct? Also, what is she going to do if she wants to have another baby?
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Submitted by Skinnymalinky on Thu, 05/31/2012 - 2:47pm.
These moms are really just being selfish. Wanna know why? Because while youre nursing a baby, YOU DON'T GET YOUR FRICKIN' PERIOD! (At least in my experience of two sons, for about 11 months each.)
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Not always true (and just for saying, it didn't happen with most of mothers I know). I breastfed, I had become a fucking milk cow... but still I got my period back 3 weeks after giving birth and I never missed one.
Anyway, I breastfed my son, I hated breastfeeding, physically, but I was happy to provide for him. I weaned him off gradually when he was about 1, and he occasionally breastfed until he was 17-18 months old.
I was SO HAPPY when it was over! I love my son, but breastfeeding was also keeping me retaining water... when I stopped, I shrinked back to my original size. And in any case, it was beautiful to "get my body back" all for me.
And I don't think he was traumatized from not having breast milk anymore. Weaning him off gradually made him adapt to this better.
Other than this, I never liked Morissette, sorry. And I agree with everybody who said they do this for themselves and not for the kids. Seeing them grow up it's beautiful and yes, it can also make you nostalgic, but what the hell, it's life, and it's their life.
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I had a friend with a 4 year old who kept trying to feed. She eventually screamed "What am I supposed to do when you go to school? Go down there at lunchtime and hang my tit over the fence?!" Yeah...she was a bit rough
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I give her applause but for me, I was over breastfeeding after day one. I didn't like or enjoy it at all. It made me feel trapped and claustrophobic. I was made to feel like a bad mom when I just couldn't do it. After all these years I'd just like for people to say this way is fine, but mine was fine too... for me.
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Submitted by urmomma on Thu, 05/31/2012 - 3:06pm.
okay okay there has to be a happy medium. Y'all and you know who you are, shit your pants if a child gets out of line. Then you wanna fart all over parents who try to "helicopter" there kids. DAMN. just damn. Parents are not perfect.
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Amen, urmomma. I was reading what attachment parenting is all about, and I felt like DAYUM, that's kind of what we've been doing with our son all along. It's not because I'm the clingy type, but he has high-functioning autism. I try to give him more independence but it's hard. Because I keep my little man in check, people sometimes can't even tell he has any issues, but I do get strange looks like they probably think I'm a helicopter mom or a showoff because I'm going through the jungle gym with him. (He is 4 years old, but you have to MAKE him do stuff like that, it just won't happen on its own.) In any case, moms get judged too much as it is. It's a hard job and as long as a woman has her heart in the right place it's probably alright.
Funny, I know all these moms who lactate for over 2 years and their kids are always sick and full of allergies. Those who were only breastfed for under a year are healthier... Go figure! It could be a coincidence though... I dunno, IMHO titty milk ain't all that. I have met a few good doctors who have told me that, they are all for titty milk, but after the 6th month, titty milk is not that important for the baby because he/she needs nutrients that can be found in other foods... On the other hand, they say that if you are poor and can't afford to feed your baby something better, then by all means, give your titty to your baby until he/she is 2 or 3... Who knows! There are so many opnions about this that I just can't...
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Meh... I'm more concerned about the parents who ignore and neglect their kids.
Submitted by Whatever on Thu, 05/31/2012 - 3:30pm.
That is a weird looking kid.
Submitted by Lily85 on Thu, 05/31/2012 - 6:17pm.
All I can say is: HIS EARS ARE HUGE!!!
He is not a cute baby.
He's the spitting image of his daddy.
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What if the hokey pokey really is what it's all about?
All I can say is: HIS EARS ARE HUGE!!!
He is not a cute baby.
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Submitted by Stoney on Thu, 05/31/2012 - 4:36pm.
Maybe she can also let him choose when to stop shitting his pants? Who needs guidance anymore? It should come naturally! One day he will just sit on the pot and dump, so why force it!
HAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!!!
Now that I think about it, though, there are quite a few adults whose parents must've taken the same potty-training route. Exhibit A: Any random Tuesday night at Wal-Mart.
LOL@ staying attached to the umbilical cord:
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Submitted by TimberSteen on Thu, 05/31/2012 - 5:30pm.
It could just be that they don't want to have to deal with the weaning and waiting for the milk ducts to stop producing. Ever gone through that? I have - three times - and it's no fun. However, I can't conceive of having to drop what I'm doing to nurse my frigging toddler. That's gross.
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I AP but only in 2 ways breastfeeding and co_sleeping.
Breastfeeding is dropped at 2 or before and co_sleeping 1 year. By all neans when the kid is one and can drink cows miilk and eat a healthy variety by themselves I do not think a child needs to rely on 6_8 titty pulls a day.
Then there's the OTT parents who won't vaccinate and keep the child rear facing til they're 15..they drive me more crazy than the longer breastfeeders!
These attachment parenting militants need to just admit that they do what they do for themselves, not their children. The mothers don't want to cut the cord and turning their emotional neediness into some kind of parenting movement is how they justify dooming their kids to a lifetime of therapy.
Why even bother cutting the cord...couldn't it just stay attached.
Attachment parenting is all well and good - I have some hippie burner friends who are into it and it works for them. They're happy, their partners are happy, and their kids are happy. More power, etc.
I personally do not plan to breastfeed my son for more than 6 months to 1 year. My breasts and my body belong to me, not him. I'm thrilled for him to use them for a year to get all his nutrition and health needs, and then I take them back. Yeah, so I'm selfish. What of it? Moms get so much bullshit and judgment from everyone - family, friends, even strangers - and I'm tired of hearing it. Thank goodness that years of posting on a male-dominated creative writing forum have given me a thick skin, because if someone has some self-righteous opinion to puke forth upon me, it's quite easy to let it roll off my back.
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Submitted by Lucifer_Sam on Thu, 05/31/2012 - 3:29pm.
YES! Like they're doing something so avante garde, so anti-establishment. They're so much better than other moms. Get a grip, women have been breastfeeding for eons. As much as I am pro breastfeeding, I am sick to death of this latest trend. When I grew up, women breastfeed their babies in church and in public and nobody gave two shits about it. One of my FB friends must be the local La Leche League leader because that's all she posts about. And come to think of it, she has a son.
I cannot wait to see what happens to all these attached kids when they grw up--ifthey ever do.
I just think this type of parenting has to do more with the mom and her attachments and less with the child and his health. I also think letting the child choose what to do at that age is a slippery slope for the future, but that's just my two cents.
This needs to be on that website STFUParents. God that site is hysterical. Love it.
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Submitted by YesterdaysTrashQueen on Thu, 05/31/2012 - 3:40pm.
Sorry but all they are doing is raising the new generation of Norman Bates.
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I mean I think they want to be the only woman their son ever loves. Some moms are weird with their sons.
Submitted by doncorleone on Thu, 05/31/2012 - 3:38pm.
Okay, I have 2 kids, and awful as it sounds, i could not WAIT to get done with breastfeeding just out of sheer exhaustion. I respect other mom's rights, but lately it seems there have been a plethora of skeevy mom stories of the stars. Maybe they are just trying to look cool or like an "Earth Mother" I don't know but PLEASE.
why is that awful?
breastfeeding was hands down the best part of the childbirth experience and even though it was a little bittersweet, I sure was glad when the kid was done breastfeeding. No more lugging around that stupid breast pump, my body was finally mine again and I could put substances in it whenever I wanted...hell yeah!
by the time he weaned he was getting used to sippy cups and thus didn't like the fact that the boob doesn't give you as much liquid as the cup. so he'd bite me. this time around, when the kid even tries to bite me, he's done.
Good for them, but we really don't need to know all the details.
Argh, I am going to get shit for saying this. But I'll put money on her child growing up to be nice compared to the majority of the narcissistic celebrities with kids that don't spend much time with their kids outside of photo ops.
As with anything, there are extremists and those are the ones who get the most attention. The media would have you believe that the breast feeding angle was the only and/or most important principle in Attachment Parenting. It's not. The big picture goal is make the child feel that someone is there when and *if* they need it. So sleeping in the same bed and breast feeding past the "norm" in this society are just SOME of the practices to accomplish this. IF the child doesn't want to, he/she is not forced to.
Anyway, I don't do Attachment Parenting. There is a mom at the park that does it and she doesn't hover over her kid. That's just plain paranoid parenting IMO. She's normal for all intents and purposes. Her kid stopped breast feeding on his own at 18M. Had he wanted to continue, she wouldn've compiled. He's 3 now, sleeps in their bed occasionally. No biggie.
Time Magazine totally sensationalized the whole breast feeding bit. I'm sure they wanted a controversy and they got it.
Incidentally, I shared a bed with my mom until I was 8-9. It wasn't an attachment thing. It was a growing up poor in a studio apartment thing.
And for the record, I turned out ok :)
Submitted by Orangina on Thu, 05/31/2012 - 3:29pm.
@Stoney
Yeah, these kids are gonna be an extreme case of "Some men can only love their mother."
And notice how all of the mothers doing this are raising sons? The "Time" lady, Blossom, Alicia Silverstone, Alannis...They all have sons.
ain't that a bitch! O.o
Sorry but all they are doing is raising the new generation of Norman Bates.
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I blame facebook for all of this oversharing! It's cool to talk about on an online forum or something filled with new Moms. But, nobody else gives a flying fuck.
I'm still gonna say my psych input though - these boys who are being "nurtured" a little too long are probably gonna have attachment and co-dependency issues and will be looking for a another Momma when they're 18 rather than a girlfriend to enjoy some times with. They have all taken it too far, IMO. I don't agree with most of the 1950's-like parenting which also took it too far on the other spectrum of things, i.e children living in terror of their parents.
Okay, I have 2 kids, and awful as it sounds, i could not WAIT to get done with breastfeeding just out of sheer exhaustion. I respect other mom's rights, but lately it seems there have been a plethora of skeevy mom stories of the stars. Maybe they are just trying to look cool or like an "Earth Mother" I don't know but PLEASE.
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you are so right - kids DO need time alone and they need time with thier peers with little parental interference.
This is how they learn to cope when alone and to cope in group situations and how to work shit out when others disagree. Parental moderators shouldn't be used unless things get bad or veer into bullying. Then mama crack that whip!
But it's really important that kids learn to amuse themselves, build imaginations and play with their peers.
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My Godfather (who passed away in 2007 at the age of 75 RIP) used to say he breastfed until he was 11. His mother was single and whenever she was around a boyfriend he admitted to getting jealous and would walk right up and start breastfeeding in front of them, just to chase them off. :\
Not sure if it applies to this story here, but I am reminded of him sharing this story whenever I see these breast feeding until the age of whatever-type of news stories. And felt the need to get that off my chest. Yea.
That is a weird looking kid.
What is it with these sanctimonious women thrusting their motherhood "wisdom" on us all? I like Alanis better when she is in obscurity where she belongs.
@Stoney
Yeah, these kids are gonna be an extreme case of "Some men can only love their mother."
And notice how all of the mothers doing this are raising sons? The "Time" lady, Blossom, Alicia Silverstone, Alannis...They all have sons.
I don't have kids yet and I don't really care how other people raise their kids (as long as they aren't abusive) but the attachment parenting thing makes me uncomfortable. Seems like it's a recipe for raising clingy, narcissistic types who think the world revolves around them. And what's wrong with learning a little independence? Shit, everybody needs alone time - even chirruns.
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Submitted by cat problems on Thu, 05/31/2012 - 2:05pm.
I can't wait until these kids are old enough to be mortified by their parents.
LOL! I'm already feeling secondary mortification--beginning with the poor tyke's name.
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okay okay there has to be a happy medium. Y'all and you know who you are, shit your pants if a child gets out of line. Then you wanna fart all over parents who try to "helicopter" there kids. DAMN. just damn. Parents are not perfect. Kids are not perfect. and the chance that you will ever come into contact with Alanis' tittay toddler are pretty damn slim.
Did that sound shitty? I am not tryin' to be a bitch, but sometimes am....
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Submitted by ISprainedMyUvula on Thu, 05/31/2012 - 2:29pm.
Mothers have been practicing child-led weaning since the beginning of tits. This isn't a new practice worldwide in the slightest and while I don't need an announcement about every celebrity's parenting practices, this is pretty "meh" news to me.
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I bet she'll blame his teacher when her kid gets a bad grade, too. These types are like that. No woman will ever be able to please that kid when he grows up, and nothing will ever be his fault. Idiot morons.
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Stupid, upside-down parenting--and not just the over-nursing. You mean moms have been nursing inadequately for the past 150,000 years and you just figured out how to do it right? How ironic.
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Please: It's "rahnday."
There was this video of this couple who breast fed their chirrens all the way up to 9 and 10 years of age. They were also nudists. *shiver*
I won't even search for it and share the link because I don't want to share the trauma of that nastiness.
Did I miss the memo? Is this "UGLY ASS INFANT" week?
That poor child looks like Gollum.
Believe me, I was one fugly little chitling too and I'm not hating on people's fetuses but sometimes that shit needs to be kept to your damned self. I still piss my mother off when I tell her I was a hideous baby (like somehow it's still an insult to her personally lol).
Reason numero 1,001 why I am not ever birthin' no babies.
I just can't with these attachment parent hippie types. I seriously break out in an Eric Cartman-like, "I hate hippies!" fit whenever I hear this BS.
I nursed my son until about a year, then he was no longer this itty bitty baby. These babies grow into toddlers. They're shoving food in their mouths. They're grabbing sippy cups. They're becoming little people. They're really becoming aware of the world around them and partaking in it. They don't neeeeeeeeed your boob. These moms that say "Oh, they still want to..." no, YOU still want them to because you can't handle they're growing up.
Seriously though, People, are we *really* surprised by this given the psycho/obsessed chick pseudo-rock crap Alanis puts out? Wasn't you outta know about Uncle Joey? God, I'm glad Taylor Hawkins GTFO outta her band when he did... Can you imagine if that drumming talent was wasted on songs that will be about baby breaking up with her titty-balls? Christ on the cross, there will be a damn double album for that!
Wow. I haven't ranted about anything today. That felt good. Thanks for letting me share.
that cute baby's name is EVER? stupid name. stupid celebrity. i'm not a parent of a human but attached parenting sounds like bullshit to me.
that cute baby's name is EVER? stupid name. stupid celebrity. i'm not a parent of a human but attached parenting sounds like bullshit to me.