Quote From: beaholanI'm from Quito, Ecuador and I've lived here in the US for 6 years. If people that feel 'offended' with mothers breast feeding in public places, they would have a heart attack if they were in my country. There, it is not an issue at all.
I was very surprised when I heard that here in the State of Pennsylvania (where a recently moved to) it is not against the law ( that is a 'right') to breast feed in public, I wonder: why did they tell me that ?... I never in my life though that it will be a crime, why should it be a right, it is just NORMAL.
If it is so "irritating", it should be forbidden to wear short hot pants, tiny tops or low cut pants which show more women flesh than breast feeding, but nobody says anything (I particularly do not care at all). I think breast feeding in public or anywhere responds to your baby's needs, you don't do it to annoy people. And if people feel annoyed, there must be a personal problem somewhere in their past that makes them feel so angry about it.
Maybe these people are offended because they don't want to be reminded of their own unmet need to be comforted by their mother as a child. Or by the notion that you should be able to control children and babies and force them to conform to a schedule. Maybe these people feel they have a right not to be reminded of something they opted not to do. Maybe they feel guilty. Maybe they think of breasts as purely for the enjoyment of men.
We have so many people today who are now adults who were formula fed and raised in a time when women felt they had to do whatever some authority figure told them to do. There used to be the idea that formula was actually better than breast milk because it was "scientific." Women's feeding capability was questioned to the point that a lot of women now feel they will be unsuccessful and give up too soon.
