Have you missed Kim Kardashian at all? We haven’t been writing about her that much since she gave birth to Saint West last year, even though it doesn’t really feel like she’s gone away that much. There’s still news about her and her family and Kim’s still active on social media and her subscription app. Saint West is now about seven weeks old, and Kim is reportedly refusing to make any kind of big public debut until she loses more of the baby weight. I suspect that the first time we see her on a red carpet following the birth might be for Oscar night? Kim has come out for the Oscar parties before, and I think a three-month pause from the red carpet might be long enough.
Meanwhile, we still haven’t seen photos of Saint West. Which I don’t mind – I suspect the kid is beautiful (everyone says he looks like North) but I don’t hate the fact that Kim and Kanye aren’t throwing out endless images of Saint. But Kim is still talking about him a lot! In a new post on her subscription app, Kim talks about breastfeeding and how she’s doing and all of that. Some highlights:
Breastfeeding is time-consuming: “I’m about two months into breastfeeding and I’m not gonna lie — it can be time-consuming. For some reason, North hates when I feed the baby, and she lays on my lap so Saint can’t be right in front of me to eat, LOL! I’ve started to include her: Sometimes I will pump and have her feed him the bottle. That totally worked! She loved helping me, as opposed to my attention being off of her, and now she is my little helper.”
She’s full of milk: “I feel super lucky that breastfeeding is easy for me and I produce a lot of milk — so much that I’ve taken over my mom’s freezer with tons of milk!”
Nipple shields: “I use a nipple shield most of the time when I feed. I find the baby feeds better, and it allows me to never get irritated nipples or anything because they’re protected by the shield. The hospital suggested shields to me, since at the beginning I found nursing super painful and difficult, so I took some home and never looked back.”
Public versus private breastfeeding: “I know some people find breastfeeding such a private, personal experience, while other people are very open and even breastfeed in public. Now that I’m a mom, I say whatever makes you comfortable goes. I still personally wouldn’t breastfeed at a restaurant with a bunch of people I didn’t know staring at me. I’ve seen this before and remember tweeting how shocked I was. Now that I’m a mom, I’m not that shocked, especially if you have a few kids and can’t leave to breastfeed one kid in the bathroom while leaving the others at the table. But I still personally wouldn’t do it, unless it was an emergency situation and I was fully covered. I would however breastfeed in front of my girlfriends. I think it’s such a natural experience and I’m not shy about that. I know so many people get backlash for posting breastfeeding pics, but I don’t mind them! I know people have their opinions on how others should live their lives and I try not to be judgmental anymore — this is simply just my opinion.”
Because I’m not a mom, I had no idea what nipple shields were. It’s exactly what it sounds like – it’s like a stripper’s pasty only there’s an opening for the milk. The more you know! As for Kim’s thoughts on public versus private breastfeeding… I’ve never had a problem with women breastfeeding in public and I have never understood why some people find it so controversial and distasteful. It’s one of the most natural things in the world to see a woman feeding her child, but so many people (men, mostly) get really salty about it. As for Kim specifically… I think it’s cute that she has some sense of modesty about breastfeeding in public, but she’ll literally show us everything else.
Oh, and while I’m not grossed out about breastfeeding at all, I did feel a pang of sympathy for Kris Jenner because her refrigerator is full of Kim’s breastmilk. Poor Kris. I bet the freezer is full of vodka though.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet and Kim’s Twitter.
