Topic : 10/07 The Latest Debates

Yes, you are being unreasonable.  You apparently have not used a breast pump.  It is hard to find the time to breastfeed and pump in between.  You can't bottle feed and pump at the same time therefore you have to pump in-between feedings.  In the beginning they are eating every 2 hours.  When do you sleep, when do you pump?  You have to give your breasts at least 30 mins to produce more milk.  And if you have twins....forget it.  I have 3 children and my two youngest are twins.  Most of the time when I breastfed in public (even in restaurants) nobody even had a clue what was going on.  Our country is supposed to be the cultural melting pot.  Everyone is supposed to be free here.  We need to have more tolerance for basic and natural behaviors and we need to teach our children that it is no big deal!!!! 

Perhaps brings benefits?? Have you read the research?  Do you know the wisdom with which you were created?   

When I have to pay higher health care costs because a mother is unwilling to fit breastfeeding into her "lifestyle" so her baby suffers more illnesses throughout his life, it affects me!  Even worse when I have to help cover the cost of special formulas for babies with allergies, when they would have been fine with their mother's own milk... if she had been willing to fit it into her "lifestyle." 

I cant believe that people equate feeding a grown man from your bare breast and breastfeeding as the same thing.  

IGNORANT!!!!! This just proves that they have NO valid argument. So, they resort to saying things like that or comparing it to urinating. Our society has got to stop taking things so personally. The way I feed my child has nothing to do with anyone else. I am forced to look at celebrities baring their chest for all the world to see everytime I run to the grocery store. I am sorry but I find it hard to believe that men are that offeneded by the bare breast when the porn industy makes profits into the billions each year.  

Yes breast feeding is natural, but do we do all natural acts in public? Women should have the right to feed a child when they are hungry but with concern and respect with those around them when breast feeding. We are a country of many cultures, which requires thought from everyone when performing some of these natural tasks, what is "ones right" to one person may be considered " disrespectful or embarrassing"  to another.  I feel covering up or turning your back is not to much to ask.   

I never had bad feelings about breast feeding whatsoever until my daughter was 10 and in little league.  Our ministers child was on the team.  Her mother and 3 year old sister would come sit in the stands every game.  To the dissatisfaction of many of the mothers, as well as fellow parishioners, the ministers wife would literally throw her shirt up and  let the 3 year old suckle.  The little girl would walk up to her mother repeatedly and throw up her shirt to get a "drink"  3 YEARS OLD!  I realize this is an extreme, but it was this behavior that turned me off of the open nursing in public.  And I think we all know  how a bared breast can be mesmerizing to a man...you just can't ask them to turn their heads and not look..... it's just one of those things. So let's not be so selfish about the whole thing, think about those around you. 

Condoms in school....someone has to do it, it is apparent most kids are not getting the information they need from their parents, how about polling the kids and seeing how many of them would welcome a sex education class. 

Disciplining someone else's child... I don't think anyone who is not the guardian on sight should be disciplining another's child, but if a child is being disruptive TO ME, I will say something to the child. My experience is that most parents with disruptive children either don't care or are very aggressive.  I simply let the child know what he is doing and ask him not to do it to me again. I find if you approach a child like this it usually works, and both leave with self respect.  Yelling and screaming to make a point usually fails. 

I had twins 2 years ago.  I always managed to breastfeed them at the same time without anyone even knowing what I was doing!  A baby should not have to go hungry to appease a total's stranger's ignorance! 

One time when I was through feeding the boys, a man came up to me in the mall and said were you just breastfeeding them together?  I sarcastically replied, "God gave me two of them for a reason!!!" 

Women are discrete about it...but people just seem to stare at the blanket thrown over the shoulder.  What's the big deal?  They would stare and loose their appetite if the baby was screaming.