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It sounds like joke: What do you get when you combine bored knitters and breastfeeding difficulties? Knit tits!
Anyone who's ever been assisted by a lactation "expert" knows it's a very hands-on experience, involving a stranger (usually with tuna fish breath in my experience) getting up close and personal with your breasts. A knitting group in Lancashire, England has started creating knit breasts to be used with dolls to help demonstrate teach proper breastfeeding techniques to new and expectant mothers.
Kate Green, secretary of the knitting group made up of more than 30 members ranging in age from their 20s to 80s, said: "Our members have been really enjoying knitting the breasts. We are always on the look out for worthwhile things to knit. The breasts are something a bit different to the blankets and jumpers our knitters usually make."
I'm sure non-manhandled new mothers are very grateful.
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3-25-2008 @ 12:27PM
Tony said...If somebody gives me a knitted breast for Christmas this year...I'll blame them
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3-25-2008 @ 1:12PM
mamaloo said...I've been making and selling knitted breasts as teaching aids for a little over a year now, but it's not nearly a new thing. Knitted boobs for use as lactation teaching aids have been around for a decade or more that I know of.
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