Topic : 10/07 The Latest Debates

why would anyone have an issue with breastfeeding? I am a breastfeeding mom and the way I think is we can eat where ever we want why can't our babies. If you ndon't like it then don't look!

How sad for you that you robbed your child of optimal nutrition b/c of an experience you had as a child. As a mother, we sometimes have to move past things that are uncomfortable for the sake of our children. I hope you won't miss another opportunity to nurture your child in the years to come because of some pre-conceived notion. The only one suffering is the child.

I nursed my daughter for 14 months.  And I will admit that I made it a point to go to a restroom or to my car if I was out in public.  But that's just me.  I think as long as the mother and child are covered, it's no big deal.  Women have been breastfeeding for centuries.  What does everyone think mothers use to do before there was formula? It's a very natural thing.  However, I do draw the line when someone is nursing an older toddler/child.  If a child can ASK for it, they need to be drinking from a cup or something.  At that point, it becomes a little sick and perverted.  But again, nursing is a very natural thing and as long as the mother is showing a little dignity and covering herself, it's fine.

I'm a young mother of two children. I'm still currently breastfeeding my youngest and would choose no other method of feeding him. I firmly believe it is the most beneficial to my children. I have 2 very healthy kids. 

I wanted to mention that while I choose to breastfeed in public when necessary, I try to be discreet. , I agree with some points of the women who opposed breastfeeding in public and the breastfeeding mother. 

BUT while she was offended by the breast and infant. I was offended by her, a grown women going on public television, showing a whole chest full of cleavage!!!!!  I would wager that during those video clips we saw more of HER breast than any of the breastfeeding mothers!!!!!!!! 

I do wonder what this women does. When in time she becomes pregnant, researches the most beneficial method of feeding.......... Will she decline a dinner date, or go, and then retreat to a corner, filthy restroom or drag baby, diaper bag, keys, purse, spit up rag and all the necessary baby item and go to the car!
 

I cannot believe how many people are just arguing with this fact to do it, yes the baby does cover some of the breast, but why not use a blanket you have to use it after anyway to burp the child, why not just use the blanket while the child is breastfeeding as well, who cares about the whole"natural" thing, it is still natural, just COVER UP

I just wanted to put in my two cents on this heated subject.  I am a mother of 5 children, and I have successfully nursed all of my children.  Publicly and privately without much of an issue.  I had a few people look at me with total disgust when they realized that I was nursing a baby (which they had NO clue that I was doing up until then infiltrated my space by "assuming" it was OK for them to come over and touch or talk to my baby while I was holding them)  I have no problem with people coming and talking to me or anything while I am nursing, however when someone does enter my personal space and then they have a disgust look on their face, well tough!  I didn't come and plop down and decide to invade your space!  As far as just "whipping it out", no I do not agree with that line of thought either.  We do have to be sensitive to our surroundings.  And for that woman who you have on your show against the breast feeding I would ask her this.  Why do you look?  You seem to stare and WANT to create an issue and draw attention to the fact that a mother is doing what is totally natural in caring for her child just as God had intended.  (They wouldn't make milk if they weren't supposed to be used as a food source for the children)  And the insanity of the remark that she made, "I didn't tell you to rub your breast on the toilet before feeding it to your baby" was just that!  Insane!  The question was, will she eat her meal while seated in a bathroom stall?  (Now, I didn't say to rub her hands and mouth over the toilet seat)  Of course she would not.  Why would she even suggest that a child or ANYONE be eating in a place where we defecate???   

  

I think that breastfeeding in public should NOT be against the law, period.  The fashions of today show more of the body than when a woman is doing what is totally natural to do with her child.  If you don't like it, look away.  If you are being insensitive to others, shame on you on both fronts!  Be more considerate of others whether you are on the nursing end or on the uncomfortable breast phobia end.  If this is made illegal (which I hear it is in some places!) I ask where will it end?  Should we start to come down on obese people when they are eating out?  I hear that some people are revolted when they witness an obese person eating out in any restaurant.....just a thought to chew on....ludicrous huh?  My point exactly! 

 The biggest probem I am having with the breastfeeding topic is that no one has stepped up to educate the general public about why so many mothers choose to breastfeed in the first place.  Dr. Phil only showed two women who presented opposing views.  He should have used this opportunity to educate the public about the benefits of breastfeeding for the child (lower incidents of asthma, crib death, obesity, etc.) and the mother (lower risk of cancers, delayed fertility, quicker weight loss, stronger emotional bond, etc.).  He should have gotten somebody from La Leche League or other breastfeeding group to explain why so many women are passionate about breastfeeding.  My other issue is why is it OK for women in public and on TV to wear nothing but a tiny cloth of material covering their breasts.  One little bounce from them, and the whole top end falls out.  I was so outraged by the segment about breastfeeding that I turned the show off.  How can we breastfeeding moms get our point across without some good old fashioned education?  People will never accept public breastfeeding if they do not know why we do it. 

hey, breastfeeding is a natural thing , besides the breast were invented before the bottle ever was. but i think women need to use a blanket or some type of cover up while breast feeding in public .  

  

as for condoms well to each his own , kids are going to do what ever they want anyway , so if your a smart parent you'll teach your kids before someone else does & then they get the wrong idea about sex . 

  

as for disapling other peoples kids ,I would never do it unless they were left in my care & there parents were not there. i would never allow someone else to disaplin my kids if i was around to do it my self .  

I have a 15 yr. old son and even though he tells me he is not having sex, I know better. I talk to him all the time and I have told him that if he needs me to I will go and buy him the condums. I agree with you about these parents who think that their childeren will never  have sex out of Wed lock because they have talked to them. Talking helps and as a parent I hope that when my child is in that situation he will hear my voice in his head saying "Have you thought this through?" But I also know from experience that when you are in that situation and you can't or do not want to stop that he can not take my words out of his head and wrap them around his penice. 

konickel 

 I don't know where that woman ever got the idea that we breastfeed to look attractive.  I personally breastfeed to feed my child not to look good or to get attention.  She needs to be informed on the reason women breastfeed, and it is not to be attractive.