Breastfeeding Is Natural, Not Shameful
Tuesday June 21, 2005
Breastfeeding has been a hot topic on talk shows and blogs across the internet recently, thanks to celebrities who are uncomfortable with women breastfeeding in public. Breastfeeding is a natural way to feed your baby, and certainly nothing to be ashamed over. If you plan to breastfeed your baby, learn as much as you can about breastfeeding before the baby arrives. Education is key to success in breast feeding. Whether you will return to work or stay home with baby full time, a high-quality breast pump can help you maintain your breast milk supply and keep baby stocked with bottles when you're apart. Choose the breast pump that best meets your needs with these tips from your Baby Products Guide and proud mom to a healthy breastfed baby.
Breastfeeding offers baby not only a way to a full stomach, but a whole range of other health benefits such as easier digestion, less incidence of allergies, less risk of obesity and high cholesterol in later life and immune system boosters found only in mother's milk. Though our society has come a long way towards encouraging breastfeeding, the idea that breastfeeding is dirty or something to hide still exists, as evidenced by the recent comments from Barbara Walters and others. Even well-meaning doctors and nurses sometimes give poor information regarding breastfeeding that leads to the demise of a new or tenuous breastfeeding relationship between mother and baby. Learn everything that you can about breastfeeding before your baby is born, and seek a support system of other successful nursing mothers who can give encouragement and advice on what worked for them, and who can tell you that you don't have to feed your baby in the bathroom to avoid public scrutiny.
Comments
Hi…i just wanna say that i happen to be 100%against breastfeeding in public, i find this act to be revolting and sexually obscene. Public breastfeeding is a primative behaviour which shows that we are not much different than Animals, we as a society needs to stop abandoning common sense that public breastfeeding is indecent behaviour and quit looking at this whole issue as womens rights political correctness Bull****. The trouble with our society is that its too liberal, we live in a liberal free society that teaches us as a new generation to be rude and impolite and to make it ok to be rude and impolite which is what public breastfeeding is. A liberal society is miseducating a new generation to socially accept this indecent, lowclass, primative behaviour to where we are becoming more like ignorant savages and plus lose a civilized society with no moral values. These liberal womens rights lactivist are doing everything they can to indoctrinate a new generation in the 21th century of the bad ways which we should look at as social mores. Lactivist are a poison to this country and they set a bad example for all breastfeeding stay-at-home-moms, the ideal traditional conservative breastfeeding mother, usually stays at home with her children to breastfeed, or to show some class by breastfeeding her baby in a restaurant bathroom to show some honor and respect for all restaurant customers. Any women who has class would do that, public breastfeeding needs to be banned in all 50 states to make America a decent more civilized country with good moral values since the pilgrims came out here. Public indecent exposure such as breastfeeding in public is eroding our society, which is contributing this moral breakdown in our society. A society who believes in manners and decency would and can make a difference by signing petitions to have laws passed to make public indecent exposure illegal such as public breastfeeding by getting involved in the Republican convention. Public breastfeeding is a ugly, shameful, dirty, sexually explicit act that makes all women look bad and makes the ideal traditional conservative breastfeeding mother look bad. Public indecent exposure is whats hurting the moral fabrics of America’s values , because it used to be at one time or a nother that breastfeeding was done behind closed doors and remained a mystery. People knew about breastfeeding back in the 1920’s, 1930’s, 1940’s, 1950’s and 1960’s era, it just wasnt veiwed out in public to push it in our face sort of thing which gave women a sense of dignity, decency and class. I dont have a problem at all with breastfeeding or nursing in public, i only support nursing in public, but only with the acception of a babybottle, just not THERE KIND of nursing in public of how Lactivist want it to be as an arrogant push-it-in-your-face-boobs sort of attitude. Like i already said before, lactivist dont set good examples for every breastfeeding women out there, they are bad role models for every idealistic conservative, traditional stay-at-home breastfeeding mother out there. Lactivist are hateful (make-trouble-for-you-people) bunch of scumbag militant groups that have really made a big embarrasment for all decent breastfeeding mothers out there and made a big embarrasment for themselves. These nurse-in-mother lactivist need to be repelled from our society and deserve a shot of pepper spray in there eyes for making business hard for Delta company when they sit around with no life to hold up signs for a big demonstration all because some lowclass trash like Emily Gillette couldnt take responsibilitys for her actions to use discretion or to take it to a bathroom. Public breastfeeding does tend to creepout restaurant-store customers and also makes business look bad, it gives a restaurant-store establishment a bad image. Women should feel a sense of shame, embarrasment, awkwardness and feeling out of place before doing something discraceful like that. If our screwy liberal government and senators are having legislation passed to have public indecent exposure such as public breastfeed legal just about anywhere including the workforce, how long will it be till laws are being passed to urinate-defacate in public. In france its perfectly legal to urinate in public and could very well be like that in America with the rate of socially accepting public breastfeeding to be a social norm
I think it is perfectly natural to breast feed even in public. Also for those of you who cannot say its wrong a lewd act are too immature to actually accept the beauty that his the human body.
I nursed in the bathroom before….Then I thought to myself… “am I really doing this?” and from then on I just did it in public whenever I felt, when I felt. Better than giving her a Burger, right?
Breastfeeding is not offensive, disgusting, or illegal. People who stare in public and make rude comments are obviously uneducated, ignorant, and know nothing about good nourishment. I was young and had to sacrifice many things. I couldn’t drink…party…eat junk foods…I even stayed at home with her…for new moms or expectants it’s hard to imagine…but for me, it was completely worth it.
The ******* above me can just get a life.