On Chestfeeding

Confession: I chestfed my baby. Chestfeeding is a real thing. When my very premature babies were born at 24.5 weeks gestation weighing 750 and 810 grams respectively, they were intubated because they could not breath on their own. On day...

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Confession: I chestfed my baby. Chestfeeding is a real thing.

When my very premature babies were born at 24.5 weeks gestation weighing 750 and 810 grams respectively, they were intubated because they could not breath on their own. On day one at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU — i.e., “nick u”), a nurse led me to the “pump room,” where mothers of sick babies could use breast pumps to store milk for when their child was well enough to use it. I did this religiously, hoping to breastfeed my baby when he got big and strong enough to do so. It was months before this was possible. (READ MORE: ‘Fertility Equality’ is the Next Frontier for California’s Civil Rights Regime)

At about 4 pounds, my surviving son, now only using a cannula to receive some extra oxygen but breathing on his own (no more tube, no more CPAP), was ready for chestfeeding. Too weak to fully breastfeed, he sucked on a tube from a bag of milk taped over my shoulder leading to the nipple. Chestfeeding required less energy to eat while teaching the mechanics of nursing. He would get the positive reinforcement for trying, and bonus: He would be fed.

The rigamarole of chestfeeding prep continued for a week or two, and, eventually, he built up the strength to nurse. The medical staff were amazed that a baby so premature would be able to learn to do something that challenging.  Bottle feeding and chestfeeding are easy in comparison to breastfeeding.

The CDC Encourages Crazy

Now, the Centers for Disease Control endorses this medical intervention of chestfeeding for men who think they’re women. The CDC shares its insight here:

Some transgender parents who have had breast/top surgery may wish to breastfeed, or chestfeed (a term used by some transgender and non-binary parents), their infants. Healthcare providers working with these families should be familiar with medical, emotional, and social aspects of gender transitions to provide optimal family-centered care and meet the nutritional needs of the infant. These families may need help with the following:

• Maximizing milk production
• Supplementing with pasteurized donor human milk or formula
• Medication to induce lactation or avoiding medications that inhibit lactation [emphasis added]
• Suppressing lactation (for those choosing not to breastfeed or chestfeed)
• Finding appropriate lactation management support, peer support, and/or emotional support

The Centers for Disease Control, an ostensible scientific organization, is encouraging something that is medically untested at a minimum and obviously biologically impossible. The CDC has become a political advocacy organization encouraging sexual abuse of minors.

Chestfeeding Is a Medical Treatment, Not a Sexual Kink

Chestfeeding is a medical intervention done for a specific purpose. Corrupted men are corrupting chestfeeding. There are men, more than one might think, envious of what only women can do: gestate, birth, and feed a baby. Men experience these phenomena from the outside. They do not know what it’s like to grow a baby and can’t experience the pain and empowerment of giving birth. Men look on in wonder as a mother, who has held this baby in her body, now bonds with her offspring in an almost mystical way. A mother nurses her baby while the child adoringly gazes back. It is as intimate as it is innocent. Artists capture the beauty in myriad of ways with the mother and child:

Icon of the Mother Mary and Christ Child (alexfa92/Shutterstock)

Sick men, perverted men, jealous men desire this for themselves. Some men, selfish and narcissistic, will see this relationship and want to spoil it or harm the mother or child. Some men will go a step further and try to be a woman, to appropriate her biology, and take hormones and use breast pumps in a shabby facsimile of womanhood. The worst of these men are sexually deviant and wish to use a baby to fulfill a fetish. Whether they use a nipple clamp or nursing baby, the goal is to get off to the sexual sensations they feel.

The CDC, the La Leche League, and a host of other health care bureaucracies entertain this deviancy and offer helpful guides for these sick men to follow so that they can pretend to be what they aren’t: mothers. Women. This is nothing short of the erasure of women. It is total and complete misogyny disguised as enlightenment.

@Miriam_Grossman discusses the utterly depraved and perverse guidance recently given by the CDC on how to support men in “chestfeeding” infants.

The drugs these men are taking are extremely potent, and an ADVERSE effect is for the breast tissue to secrete a substance, which is… pic.twitter.com/cij88Wpy8J

— OutspokenSamantha (@Outspoken_Sam) July 7, 2023

Men Chestfeeding Is Anti-Nature

Everyone who is not mentally ill (and this caveat must be made because so many people are now addled) knows that a man cannot feed a baby and that only weirdos would want to try. This is universal knowledge. It’s biology. There isn’t a male mammal on any National Geographic show attempting to use its residual nipples (think gorillas) to nurse babies. Only psychologically damaged male human mammals would try something so against nature. Only flighty female human mammals would look at this and pretend it’s good.

Part of why Pride Month turned into a dud and why Americans, especially young Americans, are turning against the transgender movement specifically and the alphabet people generally is because of this sort of outrageously transgressive nonsense. It’s so beyond the bounds of normal. It’s so obviously demented. Pure and undefiled things like a mother nursing her infant are being corrupted by men with autogynephilia and nipple fetishes.

Chestfeeding by Men Is Misogyny

The purest form of misogyny is a man taking hormones to produce some form of toxic fluid from his pectoral region to chestfeed a baby he’s just bought from a surrogate. The man, pretending to be a woman, has managed to commodify both mother and baby. He has used both for his own sick pleasure. It is deviant and should be criminal. The baby is innocent and being sexually abused by a deranged man.

Chestfeeding is a specific medical intervention for a specific purpose: to help weak babies gain strength with the eventual goal of being able to breastfeed. It can also be used to help women who have difficulty producing breastmilk for their babies. Now, it’s being used by men as a way to feed their own fantasies of selfhood. This narcissistic impulse should be named and shamed.

I’m reclaiming “chestfeeding” for women — the only people who can get pregnant, carry a baby in a womb, birth a baby, and nurse a baby. Men cannot do this no matter how many hormones they take or how excited it makes them to have a baby suck on their tits. They’re men, deviant men, and there are some things men cannot do.

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