Topic : 10/07 The Latest Debates

All of us that breast feed or will one day have a right to feed our baby anywhere we wish just like anyone else has a right to eat anywhere they wish!  I do believe in some descretion but I also know from experience that some babies will not feed with there faces covered (like most adults)! 

Give breastfeeding moms a break if there isn't a sanitary space to breastfeed in private than they must do what they must! and the bathroom isn't sanitary it smells usually (or soon will) and not really a confortable sitting situation (yes I speak from experience) 

You know after reading through some of the post I have to ask this!! 

So you say take it to the bathroom, ok answer this "What if you have more than one child?"  I have 6 children, so you expect me to load up my infant/toddler and my other 5 children and haul them all the restroom and expect ALL of them to sit quitely in a nasty floor where there are NO chairs for them, while I breastfeed my child for 15 to 30 mins?  I DON'T THINK SO!! 

And selfish of a nursing mother to nurse in public??? WTH!! Nursing is the most unselfish thing a mother can do!! The selfish ones are the ones that are putting their feeling/thoughts above a hungery child. Believe it or not most nursing mothers are somewhat uncomfortable nursing in public, but they do it because the NEED of their child is more important than their own comfort level!! A nursing mother decides to nurse 'knowing' she will come face to face with ignorant people who think it's wrong for her to feed her child, when her child wants to eat. Yet she goes on to nurse, putting her own feelings aside to do what is BEST for her child! And you are calling that 'selfish'?  

Comparing a nursing mother to a topless person or saying it would be wrong for a women to take off her shirt in public.. When have you seen a breastfeeding mother 'take off her shirt'? NEVER cause we don't!! They make special nursing shirts and you see NO skin. The only part of the breast exposed is the part the baby latches on to and you don't see that, you see the babies head!! Get a grip here. And to try and compare breastfeeding to making out??? Thats just sick! A mother does not nurse for sexual pleasure!!!!!  

I've breastfed all 6 of mine in public and there have even been times someone would come over to comment on the child/ren and never even know I was nursing! And I did not have the childs head covered. It can be done discreetly and without anyone 'seeing' anything! 

Pround nursing mother to 6 wonderful children 

I have to agree this is the most immature message on this entire board.  Come on, you are saying you would physically assault someone over this issue.  Are you crazy or what?  You are speaking in one sense about defending your right to do what is best for your child.  Then in the next sentence you are saying you would assault someone while you are breastfeeding your child.  Maybe breastfeeding is the least of your issues.  You need to get in some anger management classes and then take a parenting class.  That is setting a FINE EXAMPLE for your child.  That is just redneck...  Maybe you should stop and think about the damage that could have on your child when you are being carried off in handcuffs.  How will your child be fed then?  Think about it.  Let me guess, you will start a debate about women being able to breastfeed their children while they are in jail.  Ha.  That is just to funny to be real.   

Breastfeeding in public: 

Here is my two cents.  I beleive that breastfeeding is a natural thing and I am doing with my child.  However not everyone sees breasteeding as a natural thing.  Untill there is a law or an ordanice protecting breastfeeding women and more places to breastfeed your child that is not a bathroom we are going to have to put up with the law and rules that many public places have.  We need to be patient and tolerance of others until the laws and rules change.  As for women getting kicked out of public places; the owner has a right to do that.  If enough people stop going to the public places then they will change the rules in order to attract business.  

Thank you.  There are some times when I accidently "flash" the room, but 99% of the time you see less skin when I am nursing that you do on a beer commercial!   

Part of this whole debate that gets me is that we are still stuck on objectifying women and the breast.  We as a society need to get over it and fast.  I firmly believe that part of the reason we as a country have high rates for domestic violence, rape, and crimes agains women is because we see women as objects not people.  

The same goes for babies and children.  We don't see them as individuals with rights and needs of their own.  It is far less about my right to breastfeed in public as it is for my baby's right to eat.