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In a perfect world, every woman would have a healthy pregnancy, a glorious pain-free birth, a wonderful breastfeeding experience and would feel completely happy and bonded with their child all the days of their life.

But most moms have trouble in one or more of these areas at least once. When we do, we’d really love it if moms who aren’t having an issue could simply nod and offer a smile or a shoulder to cry on.

Instead, the Mom-fia (which I just made up, I think) of moms who know everything, and impose their beliefs on people (usually without being asked their opinion in the first place) step up to twist the knife a bit.

Maybe this is not the most extreme example of this (I could point you to some though that I’ve seen online) but it has shades of it.

“How DARE Motrin imply that there are moms out there who are in pain as the result of babywearing. WE don’t know ANYYOONNNE like that! All moms should love carrying their babies. We don’t make any concessions for moms with physical disabilities, injuries or other reasons why babywearing is painful. How DARE a company like Motrin, who makes a PAIN RELIEVER, imply that there is such foolish need in the Mom community for their product.”

And in the meantime, the mom with the hunched over back and splitting headache who is jonesing for a Motrin is feeling like crap because apparently moms aren’t SUPPOSED to feel this way. God forbid a marketing message aimed at a mom in pain actually reach said mom and help her out.

No, moms (for whom the message isn’t even intended…moms NOT in pain) intercept the message and make it seem blasphemous that any company would dare critique any aspect of mommyhood.

Breathe, Jen….ok, I get a little upset sometimes.

My point is this….clearly, Motrin is not saying babywearing is bad. They’re just acknowledging that it can hurt your back. Why is that so damning? Why is that so blasphemous?

Is the babywearing movement on such tenuous ground that even a mere Motrin ad could cause it to come tumbling down into ruins? If so, y’all have some bigger issues to deal with.

As a former attempted-babywearer let me just say this in all honesty: It’s great for some moms but it sucked for me. I had enough pain beforehand, but even more after. Motrin? I was reaching for my prescription painkillers from my c-section as one of my Twitter friends and I spoke of.

But if it works for you….that’s awesome! You’re so lucky! Just don’t rub it in our faces that you are k?

That’s it for me…night all!