Following on from 2nd Feb, bras made me think of boobs and what a huge subject they are. It’s not just the palava of measuring up to get one that fits properly and they way they grow whenever weight is added, so that many women with really big boobs are chubby, but then their boobs are saggy and have to be bundled into giant hammock like bras, or scaffolding in white, beige or black and serviceable rather than pretty, just to ensure that their self esteem plummets along with their boobs.

To breast feed or not to breast feed is a minefield of guilt for those that really don’t like the idea, can’t get their baby to get to grips with it, or find it just doesn’t work. New mums obviously want to do the best for their baby so if their choice is not to, then that is the best for both the baby and mum, whatever the experts say. Heaping piles of guilt on the head of a new mum so that her confidence in her new mothering role is shaken, has got to be a lot worse than her choice not to breast feed.

The media, stars and men in general make such a hoo-ha about them that girls as young as fifteen are asking for boob jobs to make them feel attractive. Strange that In the same world women with breast cancer have to suffer the trauma of a masectomy and somehow regain their self confidence in the midst of all this bosom worship.