Comments on: Breastfeeding in Public is Difficult

By: Sheryl

Sheryl — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:50:11 +0000

This is such a tragic story but far too common unfortunately. The only way women are not going to be “made to feel uncomfortable” is to not “let” idiots make them uncomfortable. When women reach that point where they are so convinced of the value of breastfeeding, they simply do not care what other people think any longer. It is a very liberating point to get to.

By: mrshekmi

mrshekmi — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:49:03 +0000

Who are arguing with these women? I just don’t know under what circumstances this could happen. I have nursed very obviously under a nursing blanket with a squirming baby and I’ve gotten nothing negative in airports, in the park, in a restaurant….i’m just baffled who these arguing people are.

By: Mama2Bean

Mama2Bean — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:12:41 +0000

I nursed my son until 15 mos. (child-led weaning) and he nursed where ever and he needed to. My feeling was that as long as I was being discrete, whose business was it? (Especially since there is nothing illegal or unnatural about it. What *is* illegal is for people to insist that you leave or go to the bathroom to nurse your child.) I refused to nurse in a bathroom–would any adult eat their lunch in a toilet–and a public one at that? My feeling about it is if I can watch someone scarf down a Big Mac, my child should be able to eat his food under his blanket, under my shirt, or in his sling with the same freedom. I think that it’s only “difficult” if as nursing mamas we let it be difficult. There are so many ways to NIP discretely and without being imprisoned in the bathroom.

By: Melissa Haynie

Melissa Haynie — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:15:00 +0000

As a breast feeding mother I can say that I totally relate to the study. As a matter of fact I try really hard to always have expressed milk if I am going out with my daughter. It is sad but true. I love feeding my baby so I just don’t go out much. We are homebodies and probably will stay that way until she is weaned or at least eats less frequently.