breastfeeding made the cover of Baby Talk

[calienteyfria]

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14065706/?GT1=8307

People piss me off sometimes. Well, sometimes is an understatement.

If only adults would do all their eating at home as well. I'm tired of seeing people eating in public. It's just....wrong.

Thanks, Niki, for the link.

Comments

[starfireming]

I just don't get it. You know me, I'm 21 and my mom breastfed all of us, even going through her residency; I don't know how often she breastfed in public, but I know she isn't bothered by other women doing it. We've been talking about it a lot lately, but I just can't figure out why healthy women would choose to bottlefeed, when breastmilk is cheaper, healthier and easier. My mom says that pumping can be a pain in the butt sometimes until you get used to it, but I doubt it's much more difficult than mixing formula just right and heating it to body temperature. Are we different? Are most other women afraid of their breasts? What is the deal here?

And on the article... one chick said that she didn't want her son to see a nursing mother's breast, because a breast is a breast, "it's a sexual thing". Well, duh, it's sexual, since everything having to do with producing a child is sexual. The nesting hormones are sexual, the outie belly-button is sexual, the bladder the size of a gnat's is sexual. That doesn't mean it's sexy.

[calienteyfria]

The main thing with me is that I decided to nurse because I went to church with two women that had babies at the same time. The bottlefed baby cried INCESSANTLY and the breastfed one was so at peace all the time.

I have problems to some extent with "maternal instinct", so fighting against it wasn't going to help me one bit if I decided to bottlefeed. If I went against my body, that was one thing, but having a baby that was constantly in pain and inconsolable was another.

Unfortunately I had to work when I had the first kid, and I did use some formula, but I managed to nurse her until she was 18 months old.

I never have gotten the whole boob issue either. :/

[pameleen]

Lactivists! Thats fantastic.

So ppl want moms to hide their boobs because they are sexual organs and yet they will themselves use their sexual organ to feed their child?

The reason they want boobs under wraps is because their parents wanted boobs under wraps. If we don't get a grip then they will have to add a ban for public nursing on to the ban for public smoking.

[calienteyfria]

People don't realize that I have a right to nurse my son anywhere. It's Illinois state law now. I think most states have these laws.

Very rarely are you going to see THAT MUCH BOOB when a woman is nursing in public.

People are stupid. You don't know how many times I've been offended by the type who have their kids in Eddie Bauer strollers, state of the art everything baby and are carrying a metric ton of crap with them, and then they whip out a bottle.

Really, if God had meant us to breastfeed, he WOULDN'T have invented bottles. ;)

[daisan]

Less than half is a minority, last I checked on the rules. That means the majority of women in this country do NOT find it offensive to look at a breast. So why do the close-minded among us get all the freaking press? I'm so sick of hearing about how the breast is a sexual object and men are hard-wired to be aroused by it. Yeah? Big fucking deal. Men see boobs all the time. They can control their arousal; hell, they're experts at it from about 15 years old onwards. So why should mothers doing what's best for their babies be made to feel like outcasts or perverts? I show less boob when I breastfeed than a Hooters billboard, and those are visible to everyone on I-94.

Just, ugh.