Breastfeeding should be added to the school curriculum to help end the stigma
about feeding in public, doctors have said.
In public Unfortunately breastfeeding in public is still taboo, making mums feel anxious
about feeding in public places despite their legal right entitling them to.
It's not surprising therefore that some new mums feel apprehensive
about feeding in public.
In public Mums often feel anxious
about feeding in public places despite their legal right entitling them to.
Don't worry
about feeding in public — It feels likes a big deal at the start, getting your breast out in a public place but once you've done it a couple times it doesn't feel scary at all.
Wearing The Bshirt just makes it so much easier and you can still keep your modesty if you are embarrassed
about feeding in public as your belly and boobs are hidden.
Now I am breastfeeding for the second time and I don't worry
about feeding in public at all but there are definitely some places I feel more confident than others.
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There are two things we get uptight
about in public; breast
feeding and prayer.
How
about, would you
feed a formula
fed child
in public?
Fed Up With Lunch — For a year, one woman blogged
about her school lunch every day at a
public school
in Chicago... then she wrote a book.
The report calls for the creation of innovative
public - private partnership arrangements, as well as partnerships involving different levels of government, civil society organizations, and donor organizations,
in areas from crop technology to the provision of school
feeding programs to help bring
about sustainable food security throughout Asia.
So I just don't get the «too much pressure to breastfeed» when all around me are images of bottles, ads for formula telling me a happy
feeding makes a happy mom, bottlefeeding moms, moms and doctors and nurses telling new moms that formula is «just as good» and «not to feel guilty», women getting «the look» for nursing
in public, or feeling weird
about doing it (I sure did)-- to me, any pressure out there is NOT to breastfeed, or do it as little as possible (not if it's not immediately easy or you don't love every minute, not past 6 mos, not
in public, not around male relatives and friends, not around children, not if you ever want to go out alone sometime...)
I certainly plan to breastfeed, but I have been concerned
about feeding the baby
in public.
You always hear jokes
about different aspects of breast -
feeding, and some were afraid to bring it to the floor of the Senate because they feared there would be embarrassing questions and that it would become a joke,» said Frazier, who got involved after a group of nursing mothers came to his office and shared their experiences
about breast -
feeding in public.
Why, if I feel it's totally ok to just
feed my baby
in public and not worry
about it?
In addition, this knowledge can create confidence, especially if someone were to confront you about feeding your baby in publi
In addition, this knowledge can create confidence, especially if someone were to confront you
about feeding your baby
in publi
in public.
She breast -
fed her three boys but has always been careful
about doing it
in public.
Unfortunately, many people are still ignorant of this fact and continue to whine
about mamas
feeding their children
in public.
I would never make an issue
about someone else's choice to breast
feed just because I don't want to do so
in public, but I also have the right to feel uncomfortable
about it.
Week by week there was progress: he'd latch on with a nipple shield; we learned to
feed with the nipple shield
in public; he started latching without the shield (and was touchingly enthusiastic
about it).
Mothers also mention concerns
about remaining independent, dividing care equally with the father, and reluctance to
feed in public, proving that many social and cultural barriers still exist.
I will likewise try not to worry
about you judging me for sitting and
feeding my baby
in a
public place or for the fact I've continued to breastfeed after 6 months.
Why can't a mum feel confident to
feed her baby
in public and not be stressed
about what her bottle
feeding counterparts might have been thinking?
I do feel a bit embarassed
about breast
feeding in public, so I normally try to
feed my daughter
in the car.
Fortunately, I was able to carry on
feeding her to
about 16 months, but
feeding a toddler
in public draws lots of frowns, and eventually I succumbed.
I'm sorry, but you made the choice, like it or give up, because there are plenty of mothers wanting to breast
feed but struggling, they don't need to hear those who can BF moan
about having to give stuff up or having to
feed in public.
However, I was always intending to combination
feed then give up breastfeeding and switch to formula after a few months as I wanted some freedom.It was my choice to breastfeed, to give up having drinks, to do the night
feeds, to get my breasts out
in public and everything else you mention above (I didn't watch what I ate, if I listened to the HV
about giving up dairy and greens and everything else, then I would have felt like crap) I made that decision and by the sounds of it so did you.
About Greene Onion's comment — I thought there were laws that gave women the right to breast
feed in public?
Fed Up With Lunch Appalled by cafeteria offerings at her Chicago
public school, a teacher (aka Mrs. Q) resolves to endure the school lunch every day for a year and write
about it anonymously
in this blog.
Robin Kaplan: Yeah, and so - actually Whitney and Daisy, I'd love for you to kind of answer this question as well: After your harassment incident - Whitney, you mentioned that you had a really tough time leaving the house when it was
feeding time because of this incident - so would you say you're pretty nervous
about breastfeeding
in public after this?
I think women are becoming more comfortable
in telling others that they are still nursing older babies so hopefully there will be a shift
in attitudes but I have recently «lost» a few facebook followers after posting a status regarding full - term breastfeeding (I think they were most likely from a giveaway I did ages ago and not on the same page re: bf etc) Apart from that, I love telling Mums on the ward (I'm a bf peer supporter) I'm still
feeding as it opens their mind to that possibility and I think I look pretty normal so it mostly doesn't freak them out My son is far too busy to nurse out and
about and prefers juice so we've not nursed
in public (apart from support group) since he was 18 mths and that was as I had a blocked duct!
If you are pregnant or a new mummy who is nervous
about feeding your baby out of the house, here is my quick guide to breastfeeding
in public with confidence.
Because of this often negative view of breastfeeding
in public places, nursing mums can often feel self conscious and nervous when
feeding out and
about.
I couldn't give a hoot
about showing my hooters
in public while
feeding my baby, but I drew the line at flashing my undies!)
Use a cover — OK so I don't do this but if you are struggling to feel comfortable
feeding your baby
in public then a breastfeeding cover can bring you some much needed confidence when you're out and
about.
If you want to go beyond that and consider whether or not the criticism was valid
in an ethical or moral sense, I think you should consider that this woman made a
public demonstration designed to draw attention and then posted a photo of it on the internet along with her own opinions
about formula being poison (clearly a criticism of anyone who
feeds it to her baby).
I am
about to have our third baby and I breastfed each of my others but I hated
feeding in public.
«We think that's entirely too long,» said Tricia Obester, a spokeswoman for
Public Voice, the Washington - based consumer health organization that long has campaigned for improvements
in the nation's school lunch programs, which
feed about 25 million children a day.
These 15 stories go even further than the
public shaming of moms
about their breastfeeding; these particular cases escalated to the point where these moms were either arrested or threatened with arrest for
feeding their babies while out
in public!
Part of the Mother Projects initiative, where the agency tries to solve a problem or highlight an issue it feels passionate
about, the effort from the creative team is
about helping women who might feel embarrassed or judged while
feeding their babies
in public.
I wasn't
about to go through that much unnecessary effort so that I could bottle
feed in public.
My wife has no qualms
about breast -
feeding in public.
Those
in favor of allowing breastfeeding
in public say
feeding your baby is
about as natural as it gets, so if you have a problem with it, just look elsewhere!
Nervous
about unbuttoning your blouse
in a
public place to
feed baby?
Even though every U.S. state has laws protecting a woman's right to nurse anywhere she is legally permitted to be (every state except Idaho so, you know, get your shit together, Idaho), countless women have stories
about being shamed for
feeding their baby
in public.
I've only ever had positive comments
about feeding my son
in public; I've never noticed any negativity, although you can be so engrossed
in your baby at times you'd never know!
The fortunate, actually, was that the Flamingo Hilton - she started Tweeting
about it - and they actually met with her and were really, really nice
about the whole thing and are thinking
about bringing her back to do training for their employees - Ya, they stepped it up, a lot more than Hollister did -[Laughter] to talk
about the laws and how women are allowed to breast
feed in public.
And then, every time somebody
feeds in public, every time somebody sits on a bench
in the mall, even if they've got their cover on, they are still sending a message
about «This is what the breast if for.»