Topic : 10/07 The Latest Debates

I'm sorry but I think a major issue here is that when women breasfeed in public they are interfering in the way I want my own child raised. I don't want my child to have to see this until I feel they are old enough to understand it more. You know when our girls are little we buy baby dolls and little play bottles from the store and they sit around and take care of their baby by bottle feeding them...I have yet to see a little girl with her shirt pulled up trying to breastfeed a baby doll. This is because it is an adult issue and it is not for a 5-year-olds comprehension. I don't want my child to have to have adult understanding of this issue until I think she is ready. If you want to expose yourself in public and offend me and make me uncomfortable that is you choice (although I think it is a very selfish one and disrespectful), but when you do so in front of my child you are interfering with my parenting style. I don't want my child to see this so please respect this.  

I watched the show and the tv sound was ON! I cannot believe that you would say that breastfeeding in public is disgusting, that you "lose" your appetite if you see it happening b/c you are not able to look away. You cannot honestly tell me that if a woman is feeding her baby at a table next to or in front of yours, that her breast is the only thing you can see???? How is that possible?  Is she shoving her breast and her baby in your face while you're eating or are you too simpleminded to not look at her?  I have breastfed both my children and I am still nursing my daughter. I nurse her whenever and whereever it needs to be done. I do not sit in a nasty bathroom on the toilet or on the floor just so I can get "a little privacy".  That is disgusting.  However, if I am at a mall or a store with a nice lounge and comfortable seats I do choose to go there--simply for our own physical comfort!   

I'm sure there are things you do in your life that make people around you uncomfortable, but you are not going to change your lifestyle b/c of that.  I understand that you think we "should have more respect for each others rights and opinions" but it doesn't seem like you are living what you preach!!!!  It is my right and my duty to feed my children, whether that be a cheeseburger or milk from my breast!  I'm going to do it and it's not going to be done in a nasty bathroom!!! 

SO DON'T LOOK!!! 

Sheesh!  Reading through comments like this is starting to really get to me.  It is sooo very easy to turn your closed minded head in the other freakin' direction.   

You know mostly I do nurse discreetly when I am out and about.  Most of the time I time my errands so I can avoid nursing in public at all, but when I read comments like this all I want to do is go sit down in the middle of the mall and do exactly what all of the dim witted, unthinking, selfish people on this board keep telling me not to. 

But I am bigger than that so I don't.  I do however nurse my child when necessary, and if that disturbs one of you I am sorry.  Not for offending you, but for the fact that you are in such a place that you can't respect my baby.  And for the fact that you have such a prudish hang up that you can't see the female breast as anything other than sexual.   I feel sorry for you.  I pity your children who will be raise with the same closed minded thinking.  I feel sorry for our society.  And I am worried about the kind of people my children will have to deal with when all of our kids are grown. 

I am a mom of two. I am nursing my 7 month old son. I think that nursing in public can work but I don't think that it is okay to nurse without covering yourself. My son is on a schedule so I can plan my day around that , not that I put my life on hold but I know when my son will be hungry and I can have him fed in advance and if that is not an option I always carry a blanket with me and he doesn't like it but I am not going to have people gawking at me especially teenage boys.God gave us this special bond with our children and the ability to feed them but he also gave us the common sense to cover ourselves. I am a nursing mom but I find it offensive when other moms are letting it all hang out they are putting a negative name on nursing. 

Sorry...i thought i replied to someone else who made a ridiculous comment.  i must have hit the wrong reply.  Sorry!!!!!!! 

This is such a on the fence issue. On one hand there is the fact that children are going to have intercourse if they want to, thats just plain and simple.  I do believe they need classes in sexual behavior and its outcomes. They need to be more educated, us as parents feel that they are not ready but statistics say different. We all know it is hard to let go of your childs innocence, but it is inevitable. We need to quit being so afraid to inform them, they need to know. I am not in any way saying they should be allowed to have sex, but they should be prepared if they decide that they are going to.  

But at the same time it is the feeling of giving consent. I think I would rather inform them, and talk to them so they know what would or could happen instead of just ignoring the facts.  

If your child feels they cannot talk to you, and they are going to have sex, it is best in my opinion for them to be able to have protection. I as a parent want my child to be protected if they should decide to persue a sexual relationship. But I am still compassionate about those that don't. There is really no blanket answer for this, it is all sort of chance. But wouldn't you rather your child know all about the issue before hand? Shouldn't they be prepared if they decide to do something? Or would it be best that we as parents can put our hands up and say: "We told him/her not to have sex"