Topic : 10/07 The Latest Debates

I have two children and breastfed both. Once I was approached while in our local Mall and a lady came over to me and pulled down the blanket that I had laid over myself and my daughter. I was breastfeeding my daughter and I was in a corner of the mall. No one else even noticed I was there. I was so embarrassed but could not believe that she would do such a thing. She then proceeded to tell me how I should "go to the bathroom and do that." I asked her how she would like to go and get her lunch and meet me there and how would she enjoy eating in the bathroom. She admitted to me that she would have never even known that I was breastfeeding my child if she had not came over and invaded my space. So I believe that you can breastfeed almost anywhere and if done right and you don't have any nosy people around, most would not even know what you were doing. I also feel that there is something wrong with a society that thinks there is something wrong with breastfeeding yet it is perfectly OK to hand out condoms at school or exploit women. Truly the list could go on and on. It basically comes down to moral values.  

This is in reply to the woman who had three children and was asked to leave church because of disruption. 

I have five children, the last two being twins.  I have always been able to take my children to church, to restaurants, to shows, etc.  One look from their father or me and they knew that they were doing something wrong.  I never had to spank, although a couple of times I did use a soap mouth wash.  That happened only once for anyone of them.  They learned that they were expected to behave and not use foul language (that was the soap, and then only for the most foul.)   

Yes, there are non-electric ways to keep things warm. Sometimes doctors can give you bad advice. I hope your supply really is not affected, if you are pumping it wouldn't be as much so, especially if you're not apart from your baby. For women who work and pump at work, they find it's not easy to find enough time to pump often, and as demand goes down, so does supply. That is a fact. Incidentally, doctors will probably only give you advice for the short term. But if you intend to nurse past the 1 year mark then you need to make sure you nurse often to keep up supply, not use hormonal forms of birth control, and nurse in the night. Lots of women I know who don't do these things, which come so naturally for me, are dry well before their child's first birthday. 

I also nurse my son in church, and I have yet to be struck by lightning. My son doesn't go to the nursery either, and he is really good in church, even at 15 months. I get comments all the time on how cute and happy and well behaved he is. Babies just want to be babies and they shouldn't have to cry or get yucky bottles or artificial nipples just for others' comfort. And he hasn't had a bottle in his mouth since 6 weeks, I have also found that it is way easier and less complicated not to have to carry around extra stuff just to feed my baby when I already have two boobies. 

On the subject of Breastfeeding in public.....Boobs were made portable for a reason .... HELLO!! 

If God intended women to breastfeed descreetly at home, then he wouldn't have made us "Meals on Wheels". Boobs are mobile for a reason. 

 To the ignorant woman who is "uncomfortable" with women who breastfeed in public I have some wonderful advice for you: 

1)  "Get over it lady" 

2)  Have some kids yourself, then come talk to me 

3) You say we breastfeeding moms are portable so we should remove ourselves from the public when feeding ---- Well, our boobs were made portable for a reason. God put our boobs on our chests for one reason, so that we could feed our babies; whenever, wherever. Our country seems to be the only country who can't get over boobs as being sexual objects. 

4) educate yourself on the benefits of breastfeeding lady 

5) not all babys are breastfeeding when they are on the boob, sometimes they are just being soothed by mommy. My baby's liked to suckle to sooth themselves even when they weren't eating. 

6) You are portable, you remove yourself. 

GEEZ LADY, YOU PISSED ME OFF. 

IT'S ABOUT TIME A MAN SPEAK UP ABOUT THIS SUBJECT. SEE NOT ALL MEN FIND IT SEXUAL AND THOSE WHO DO, NEED A HEAD CHECK. 

MIA 

Whoa! 

 I am appalled by your comment on mother's who formula fed by choice!  

I bottle fed my daughter by choice and was still able to fulfill my duties as a mom!!!!!!!!!!! Not to mention she was able to bond with her daddy! 

Don't feel sorry for me or my child ~ she is now a healthy senior in high school and will be the valedictorian of her 2006 graduation class!