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Chapter: Lactation FrustrationCharacters: Miranda PuckTags: breastfeeding hospital lactation consultant
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Disturbing mental picture indeed
You can’t un-imagine it once it’s been imagined!
You forget, it seems to have come from Total Recall, a combination of the fat lady to get into Mars and the triple breasted hooker at the bar. Only, it’s been morphed from some sort of maple beer convolution squared by Hockey and Strange Brew.
Well, you may be onto something. Total Recall is certainly a definitive influence for me. First one. Not that second one. Definitely not the second one.
There was a second one?
It’s best never to mention it.
I’m sorry Dave, I can’t do that.
Anyway, I can’t line the two up against each other. I mean the fat lady was in both. I think that was at least a hat tip to the first. Personally, I feel that they stood alone against each other.
Where one had Arnold, the other had mag-lev cars that drove on the rooftop. And the houses. I feel that those apartment cubes were just like some of the running sequences from a few of the James Bond movies in Asia.
I would like to find Phillip K. Dick in print, but alas, I may have to settle for an electronic copy before I can turn the pages with one hand, and hold Dick in the other. (pun intended)
I’ll explain anyway, I’ve been going on a bit of a Benny Hill/Monty Python streak of late.
The amusing thing is i did imagine her saying her lines with an arnie voice
That works pretty well, actually.
I used a pseudo Hitler voice, mixed in with a bit of Jonathan Winters and Robin Williams Mrs. Doubtfire.
Okay, you can wait until the baby and the mother are awake before coaching her on the proper method for breastfeeding. Let her have her last good night’s sleep she will have for about a year.
I know, right? But seriously, when my wife was in the hospital, there would be nurses and consultants coming into the room at least once an hour, even during the middle of the night. They basically never let her sleep. They seem to have a devious plan to make new mothers go crazy.
What’s with the consultants? Haven’t they heard of the Internets?
They have, but they’re afraid of it because it’s likely to put them out of a job.
Phhhhhhhbbbbbbbt. Nonsense. There will always be some newb who doesn’t want to surf the turf for their information, and will, thanks to modern schooling, seek guidance in order to know if they are actually doing a decent job with external approval besides knowing that they don’t have a screaming kid on their hands.
consultants on breastfeeding? you’re not kidding, are you?
and here I thought instincts were good enough.
I’m definitely not kidding. This is a real thing. And it’s big. And by big, I mean that most hospitals won’t let you check out without at least one meeting with the lactation consultant. (Well, you CAN check out without one, but they tend to get all pissy on you.)
I am leaving against medical advice. Some of the best legal words on the planet.
“HEY!” *full on NFL tackle – breaking 2 ribs*
“We can’t let you leave! You might hurt yourself!”
It really happens, man.
Disturbing mental image is riding Flipper.
Flipper is riding the disturbing mental image.
Since the Gecko is not indented here with the remark, I know that I got the ten points bonus.
lol
That’s even MORE disturbing.
NOOOOOOOO THANK YOU! Lactation, understood. Third nipple scary foreign lady? 0.0 eep!!! NOPE.
Not all lactation consultants a freaky foreign ladies with third nipples. But I’m willing to wager that 35% of them are.
So, what do they say when you say that you’re going to bottle feed the kid and skip the breast milk?
They say things like “Well, if you really want to poison your child, I suppose we can’t stop you … yet. Hopefully they will pass a law one day that will allow us to stop monsters like you.” Seriously, man, that’s how they talk.
Damn man. That’s, that’s just totally biased.
http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/nestle-baby-milk-scandal-food-industry-standards
Formula is nutritionally inferior to breast milk. Breast feeding also boosts the infants immune system and increases bonding between child and mother.
Nestle and other infant formula companies performed a massive experiment in Latin America and Africa in the 70s that thoroughly demonstrated the dangers of formula. It’s okay (but not good) as a supplement, but is not suitable as a substitute.
Oh, the breastfeeding people got to you. I’m so sorry.
It’s pretty crazy. My wife got all kinds of subtle (and not so subtle) flack for not breast feeding.
Same here. And my wife did breastfeed. She just didn’t exclusively breastfeed, and that was viewed by many as a crime against humanity.
So how did Little Arnold turn out?
Are we still on Total Recall here? I’ve lost the thread on my own webcomic.
I think that we went past Total Recal to True Lies.
Thank you very, very much for doing well with that accent. Of all the webcomics I read, the only one which really consistently does foreign accents in a clear way is Unsounded. All of the others, I just read the text like any other text, then suddenly come upon an oddly-spelled word and have to shakily readjust my internal speech pattern.
Heh, I don’t know if webcomic artists know that this is ever an issue…
Never commented before, so: Love the comic! As a redhead, I am pleased. 😀
A little bit of silly accent goes a long way, in my humble opinion. Glad you think this one worked. I won’t be making this character a regular feature (thank goodness) so I don’t think the accent is going to overstay its welcome.
I bet that “disturbing mental image” just turned Puck off of breastfeeding and she’s now formula only.
Wouldn’t blame her.
You can never go wrong putting a large, gray-haired women with a thick foreign accent in your comic.
Guess who served as inspiration for this one?
Mrs. Butterworth?
Check out Dennis’ comic, Inhuman Relations. (Click the link on his name.) One of the protagonists has a mother who speaks in a heavy, hilarious accent. This lactation consultant is really sort of an homage.
Just read the entire archive, not bad. Does all of it take place in Jersey?
Then why the ice cream cake shaped like New Jersey and the overblown knowledge of the local municipal details.
I went through the entire archive of “Inhuman Relations” and his companion comics as well. Very Pogo-esque.
Dennis, just went through your strip. If no one objects, I’ll place it one notch above “Tripp”.
I like both of those comics about the same, which is ‘most bestest likingness.’ Oh, and yes, it DOES take place in Jersey. I had no idea what comic you were talking about. I thought you were talking about Puck there. (I can’t see the thread structure from my ‘comments’ screen, which sometimes leads to confusion.)
Inhuman Relations is going to be the next comic I profile on this site.
Nice webcomic Dennis.
Baby is sleeping in a bucket. lol
Baby actually does sleep in a bucket of sorts. It’s a weird transparent plastic tray with a little baby mattress inside. That tray is set into a wooden stand on wheels, so the baby can be wheeled wherever she needs to go. It’s an odd yet surprisingly useful setup.
What’s with the accent?
LOL at Puck’s limp ears! Looks like they got more tired with each panel.
I was sort of trying to go for disgust. Like when you’re grossed out and the sides of your eyebrows tend to tilt downward? That sort of thing.
Kind of like looking at Miley Cyrus when she’s tongue wagging, right?
Oh you conveyed it well. I laugh at the slightest little visual quirks sometimes. Especially in animated cartoons…
When my kid was in daycare, we watched Teen Titans (it was his favorite cartoon at the time) a lot and they incorporated a lot of facial reactions/expressions similar to this which triggered laughter from us both. It’s more than just making a face really.
Sometimes it’s the little things I appreciate…those limp ears are all WIN.
Teen Titans. Good show. Great facial expressions. I approve. Beast Boy FTW.
CAN’T
UNSEE
MENTAL
IMAGE
AAAAAH!!!!! -goes insane-
Heh heh heh. Goal accomplished.
I guess the image is somewhat diluted thanks to Mallrats.
I totally forgot about that.
Once had a GF tell me I was driving her insane. I told her no need to drive… it was just a short walk.
She gave me that look all male S.O.’s fear and only Females can cast and I said “I don’t have to walk, I live there.”
She tried to keep a mad-on, but ended up laughing.
One of your ads on another site claims one gets 83% of your dosage of redhead when you come here. I get 100% when I look in a mirror.
You poor soul. Thankfully, redhead overdose doesn’t actually harm anyone. It’s like vitamin C – the more the merrier!
Wow disturbing mental image formed. And sadly my aunt has a third nipple and when she was pregnant it was leaking milk too! My God no one expected that not even the doctor! Her OB-GYN laughed, at her while she was in the room, and got Puck Punched in the nose. My aunt later blamed it on hormones and embarrassment, but a seething, violent vendetta was formed that day.
I actually looked this crap up before putting this in the comic, and yes, tird neeples can actually produce milk. Sometimes. Depends. And know I have conclusive proof in the form of a crazy story.
If you actually researched third nipples you would know they have a name.
Nubbin. Chandler from friends had one. They are apparently quite common.
I begin to question exactly why I have such a large useless pool of esoteric trivia knowledge… Jeopardy and Trivial pursuit maybe ?
Here’s the thing: useless knowledge actually comes in handy more often than useful knowledge. I don’t know why, but it’s true. At least conversationally.
Finally you do not know how much I have read to get to this strip
I know EXACTLY how much you had to read: 208 comics. (If we include the five ‘stickterlude’ comics.)
the best reason for bfrestfeeding is probably the babys immune system it gets a boost from the mom bfing… and the hormones that said i doubt you need to supply all the nutrition a baby needs as long as you give it some
That’s what I’ve heard, that even a little bit of breastfeeding in the beginning goes a long way.
Opinions vary — quit vehemently. This is understandable, since the health and future of babies are involved.
There can be little doubt that the substance that was designed through millions of years of evolution is superior. The main question is how superior, and where the point of diminishing return falls.
But hey, you folks in Canada have a year before work makes it really inconvenient to continue.
I have no idea how a society functions without giving at least a year to the mother of a baby. It baffles me.
Theres something in breast milk thats extremely important for the developement of the babys brain that literally has no substitute and must be consumed within the first 3 years or you get sub par intelligence and a whole host of predisposition to violence and lower intelligence later in life. Read a couple studies on it.
Its a longterm health thing not a hippy fad thing.
So I’ve read this comic like… 3 times in the 3 or 4 days I’ve known of it (…I found it by complete coincidence, I might add).
…This HAS to be my favorite non-Satan strip, ever (Satan, for that matter, is my favorite character, ever).
Glad you found it! And glad you enjoy it! I have a soft spot for Satan myself, but the lactation consultant lady just creeps me out.
Whereas she does creep me out, too, it’s mainly Puck’s comment in the last panel that makes me (literally) laugh out loud.
Mission accomplished, then!
Saying ‘tird nipple’ is disturbing enough.
That’s how I felt.
From my “experience” lactation consultants are USUALLY strict, militant, and have stereotypically evil accents.
My sister in law told me her’s had been nicknamed “Titler” by the other nurses and alternatively “The Nipple Nazi”
Oh, that’s good. I wish I had thought of those myself.
I didn’t even know there were any such things. I’m so sheltered.