AITAH for mansplaining breastfeeding?
This is other people OP:
NTA. This wasn’t mansplaining, it was you setting a boundary about your own child while correcting misinformation, and your sister didn’t like being told she was wrong or that she didn’t get a say. The mistake, if any, was framing it as “I understand this better than you” instead of just “this is what our pediatrician advised and this is our decision,” but that’s a tone issue, not a moral one. She’s reacting to being shut out, not to your gender, and she needs to accept that parents get to make these calls, not siblings.
Right…like none of what Op said could be considered mansplaining…his sister is just being rude and Op is standing up for his wife
NTA
And also it wasn’t really about breastfeeding lol. It’s one thing if the sister has mastitis, and OP “well, acktually…”s her. That, to my mind, would be mansplaining breastfeeding. This is baby nutrition, which is non-gendered, and it’s great that OP has educated himself on it.
Exactly.
When I read the thread title, I assumed that OP was going to say that he had “mansplained” breastfeeding to his wife. The woman in his life who actually does breastfeed a child.
His sister doesn’t have children. His sister has never breastfed. Having breasts doesn’t make her a breastfeeding expert. (Which is why so many of us work with lactation consultants after we have our first children!)
And…this isn’t his sister’s child. How the OP’s baby is fed and weaned is between OP’s wife, the child’s pediatrician, and OP!
Not just rude but also wrong. You can be right and be rude but she’s rude and misinformed.
Her thinking eggs are dairy is enough to show she doesn’t know enough to be trying to advise anyone on nutrition
In addition this wasn’t even about breastfeeding but rather about the need or lack of need for baby food
Just because you are a man, and you are explaining something (factual and accurate) to a woman, that doesn’t automatically I make it mansplaining. Maybe you should mansplain to your sis what mansplaining is. And isn’t. NTA.
Right? Mansplaining has to do with a man explaining a topic to a woman who has more direct experience and knowledge (often academic and/or professional) about the subject than the man. It’s not just a man explaining any topic to a woman.
Its almost like baby food is mashed human food.
NTA, no mansplaining here. Your sister is out of line. Having ovaries does not mean she carries special baby knowledge on her chromosomes.
Babies are humans who eat the same food as every other human.
Holy shit, this.
Like “baby food” was invented in the 1860’s according to the internet. The idea that the sister has that babies have to eat that first is just silly – what did all the babies eat in the EONS before the invention of baby food?
<facepalm>
