Quote From: midwife75Well, I'm just an old hippie grandmother and midwife. To me, watching a new mother bottle feed her infant in public is disgusting. But, that's just me. Maybe to be equitable, our society should require all public infant feeding take place in the shadows of a stinking bathroom! Feeding of any type, breast or bottle, is an intimate time between mother and child. But we don't as a society object to observing that intimacy when the method of feeding is a bottle.
About a decade ago the California State Capitol installed a private feeding and pumping room outside of the Legislative Chambers, not long after they installed the first women’s bathroom off the Senate Chambers. The “Nursing Room” was a great place for elected representatives, staff and lobbyists to hang out, pump or nurse, share working mom tips and network. There was a lot of power in being a member of that group. It put the “good old boys” clubs to shame!
It's not just you... I too find the sight of bottle feeding disgusting. I also find it sad, troubling, offensive...
Why don't bottle feeding mother's get accused of "pushing bottlefeeding" or "doing it just to push it on others"?
When was the last time you heard someone say, "She just whipped that bottle out and popped it in the baby's mouth right in my face! How dare she do THAT just to force bottle feeding on the rest of us!"
