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Posted: 10:52 PM Sep 7, 2007
National "Nurse-In" Includes Wichita
A woman criticized for breastfeeding at a Kentucky restaurant is sparking a national protest. Email Address: news@kake.com |
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I think everyone here is saying the same thing. Breastfeeding is good, but you should have some common sense about what your doing. I would say I don't want to see any part of you bare breast while you are feeding your baby as much as you wouldn't want to see me doing any of the other natural things humans do. I guess you could always feed your baby at Hooters they wouldn't mind.
We shouldn't breastfeed in public because someone might be a pervert and get off on that sort of thing? Huh. Maybe we shouldn't wear sandals in public either. Might be someone with a foot fetish. I really don't understand why this is an issue. Being anti-breastfeeding in public makes no sense. It's basically being anti-eating in public.
I am offended everyday by things that I have no choice about seeing--women with their guts hanging out of their shirts and pants, men with the pants around their knees and their underwear showing, women with shirts so lo-cut that they might as well not be wearing a shirt. These are not images I see by choice. I am more offended by the sight of a mom feeding her baby formula. We need to support women for making the choice to do the best things for their babies. The health data supporting breast feeding is staggering. If we as a nation are concerned about health care dollars, we should start by supporting one of the earliest, easiest and cheapest health intervention--breastfeeding!
It is quite possible to breastfeed a baby in public and not be exposed without covering the baby with a blanket. People aren't uncomfortable because they can see a breast, they're confortable with the idea of breastfeeding. Should bottlefed babies be covered with a blacket while eating also? I find it absolutely hilarious that I would be able to eat lunch somewhere wearing a tight shirt that shows an enormous amout of cleavage and have nobody say a word to me. But should I be discretely breastfeeding a baby, someone would be offended. For heaven's sake, what do you think breasts are for?
I don't think anyone would ask an adult to put their head under a blanket while he/she eats, but adults don't eat from boobs. Yes, boobs are meant for feeding babies which is fine by most people. But for the sake of the rest of society, please milk the teat discretely.Plus who needs to see saggy milk filled pregnancy teats anyway? I know I don't!
I breastfed both my children and they did not like being covered up. They would pull off and scream, probably because they were hot and felt like they could not breathe. I never had an issue with my breast being exposed. Breastfeeding is the way God intended mothers to feed their babies, and that is the way is should stay! Try putting a blanket over your head while you are having a meal and see how you like it!
I can't believe that this is still an issue. Really, come on people. How do you think babies got fed years ago. Only someone who is ashamed of their own sexual feelings would be so uncomfortable with a woman nursing their child. Maybe that person or any person that complaines about a child nursing needs to go to therapy and figure out why they are so uncomfortable with something that is in our nature and mothers as well as animals have been doing since the beginning of man/woman kind. It is crazy that this is even an issue today. Also, as far as covering your baby's head...Do people ask you to eat under a blanket when you are eating? Personally I think it would be very uncomfortable for the baby to have his head under a blanket while trying to eat and breath at the same time. Maybe those not wanting to see the nursing need to cover their head to eat instead.
Unlike other cultures, ours is not as accustomed to seeing children being fed this way. It is courteous to take a seat in a restaurant out of the view of strangers eyes if one plans on feeding in public. Unless one is an exhibitionist. Having nursed three children myself, in public as needed, I handled it modestly sometimes with the aid of a cloth and sometimes not. Unlike the women I saw on the news who made sure we all knew what they were about to do by their exaggerated arm movements and aggressive yanking of clothes. You never know who is looking either, perhaps some pervert with a fetish who just got out of rehab.
Breastfeeding mothers aren't out to show everybody some boobage. They're feeding their babies, plain and simple. And if, by some chance, a millimeter of skin is exposed for a split-second, I guarantee it's less than you'd see on the majority of the other women sitting in the restaurant. People need to get over themselves and deal with the fact that BREASTS ARE FOR FEEDING BABIES! Respect THAT!
I am AMAZED that there are people who think that there is anything disrespectful about nurishing a child with one's breast. Guess what...that's what they're for?! With all of the exploiting of the female anatomy that goes on in the media, seeing a responsible woman feeding her child in the way God intended is refreshing. If this makes anyone lose their appetite, then I guess at least they will not leave the establishment being appalled at the site of a breast and hungry!
Who do you know that would say bottle feeding is offensive? That's just crazy talk!
To Lori, the detail that you are missing in your argument is that people CHOOSE to watch the media knowing that it may contain boobage but many people do not choose to see boobage while they eat or in PUBLIC. Sex is also a natural so would you say that sex in a public restaurant is okay?
I truly believe that many in our society are more tolerant of breasts when they are exposed in a sexual manner than for the nourishment of our children! The magazines at the checkout in the local grocery store show more than I ever did when I breastfed my children. Do these same people approve of the way movies, the media etc promote women or is it simply that they are not comfortable around a child and mother doing what is natural? I eat when I am hungry....
No there is not a thing wrong with breastfeeding your child, but hey what's wrong with having some modesty. As a mother I understand that modesty goes out the door when your children follow you to the bathroom and there's absolutely no privacy anymore. On the other hand, in public I wouldn't want to expose myself to complete strangers and I don't want my children seeing another woman's anatomy either.
Everytime I breast feed my baby I used a blanket and tried to move of the publics veiw. I'm sure many people wouldn't have minded seeing my breast, but I always thought it was best if they didn't.