Quote From: moirasDr Joy,
It is too my dismay that you practice medicine, and have patients who listen to you. I have 3 children, age ranges from 11 to 11 months, and not once has a doctor tell me I shouldn't breastfeed in public. They have all encouraged to feed my child on demand. I don't flaunt my breast for the whole world to see, but I also don't cover up like I should be ashamed of my act of feeding my child. I am a nurse, and worked with doctors who encourage woman to breastfeed, not bottle feed for the health and well being of the child. I know in your training your were made aware of the benefits of breastfeeding over bottlefeeding. I like the woman before me have large breasts, and plan on having breast reduction when I am through breastfeeding my children. I am not FLAUNTING my breast for sexual pleasure for anyone, I am FEEDING my child. My 11 yr old daughter thinks it is perfectly natural for me to breastfeed my 11 month old daughter, and is not the least be ashamed that I do it in public. On occassion while out, she will hand her too me and tell my to feed my daughter. As a "doctor" do you find this wrong too? Breastfeeding in public and anywhere else in Texas
What I would like to know is why you need to show your breast? The baby is still eating if s/he is covered up. That's why many people feel that women who just expose their breast while breastfeeding are flaunting themselves. What I find very funny is that women wouldn't want their children to see bare breasts on television but it's okay to look at them if a child is hanging off of it? A boob is a boob. The only difference between the two is that the ones on television look better! *lol*
Amanda
