The K-Word

I'm ashamed to say it, but I'm totally hooked on the Kardashians. It's horrible. They're vapid, but amusing. I can't take my eyes off the screen. Khloe is my favourite. I love her demonstration with an orange, of Lasik eye surgery. Ha!

The really terrible part is that Dave's just as bad as I am. "I'm going to bed," he says. Twenty minutes later, he mumbles, "Just. Can't. Stop. Watching."

So we're watching it on Sunday night -- Khloe and Kourtney in Miami. Kourtney has the baby at this point and she goes out on a bit of a binge with her girlfriends, drinking and partying. Tricky, because she's breastfeeding; always a sensitive topic for me, depending on how it's approached. Anyway, she has these ridiculous test strips, where you dip the strip into the breastmilk to test it for alcohol. (Really, can't you just not drink while breastfeeding? I don't drink while I'm not breastfeeding. It's not difficult. So a full twenty-four hours or so after the binge, her milk is still testing positive for alcohol. And she says, "If I have to give Mason a bottle of forumula, I'll be devastated."

Well.

I can appreciate that you would be devestated. She seems to have worked hard to make breastfeeding work, it appears to be important to her, so it wasn't necessarily a comment that I would flip out on. I save that for when I'm personally attacked in the movie theatre by a team of lactards, when they see me preparing a bottle of formula.

But Himself lost his marbles.

He was really upset that she said it - that she said it, in the first place (formula is food, not poison, people), and the tone she used... Like, she wouldn't stoop so low. (I think she always sounds like that, though.) He said that she should basically smarten up, realize that not everyone breastfeeds - by choice or by necessity - and be a little more sensitive about it, especially since she's being viewed by many, many people.

It actually was really touching. So many things we put ourselves through as mommies - the men just don't always get it, try though they may (or not, and just write us off as neurotic packages of hormones). He really gets how hard the whole breastfeeding debacle was for me. And his little episode told me that he'll always be on my side.

There. Mushiness over.