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October 7, 2005, 1:03 pm PDT
10/07 The Latest Debates
Quote From: ddenneyOur American culture doesn't allow for women to breastfeed openly in public... and it also doesn't support discrete feedings. Moms really don't have places to excuse themselves to - unless you sit in bathroom stalls. If so many people find it so offensive, why can't we get more places to escape from the ridicule? Or maybe these people think moms should just stay home 24/7? I think Americans have made breasts entirely too sexual - and all but ruined the progress of educating the public of the medical (long term) benefits of breastfeeding. I'm in complete agreement. I'm in a little town in the west, and there are no "nursing mother's rooms" or "family rooms" or even chairs in most department stores on the sales floors. I guess I'm lucky that even though it's a socially conservative town that I live in, it's also a rural area where sticking with what works and common sense apply, and being trendy is not as important, so breastfeeding really never went totally away here like it did in most of the country when formula feeding hit its peak. Breastfeeding in public (or how you choose to feed your baby in general) is sort of a nonissue here--I really wish that were the case everywhere!
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