Sentences with phrase «about women breastfeeding in public»

UKIP leader Nigel Farage has defended remarks he made about women breastfeeding in public places.

You may be thinking what do these crazy mothers at Natural Parenting Advice know about women breastfeeding in public if they don't do it very often?

This doesn't mean that we schedule our day so that we are making a point about women breastfeeding in public.

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According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, there are about 45 states that have laws that specifically allow women to breastfeed in public.

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...)

So I'm not cool with touting this photo as a celebration that breastfeeding has «made it» - I am happy about all the conversations I see around it about the way women in non-glamorous situations feel about breastfeeding in public and photos of breastfeeding publicly displayed.

I was actually surprised to read, considering all of the negative stories that we hear about breastfeeding, that almost 70 % of British people feel that women should be able to breastfeed anywhere in public, even bars and restaurants.

See, it's not so much about a woman's right to breastfeed in public or her supposed «need» to expose herself.

Maybe you could breastfeed in public, share your breastfeeding story on our site (like many mothers already have), wear clothing that promotes breastfeeding, talk about it to women who are currently pregnant or attend breastfeeding support groups to help breastfeeding mums who are finding it difficult.

«In the UK these barriers include the difficulty some women encounter when breastfeeding in public, widespread misleading marketing that formula is equivalent to breastfeeding, a lack of high quality services to prevent and treat any problems if they arise, a lack of community support, a lack of education about breastfeeding for young children, and lack of support for women to breastfeed in the workplacIn the UK these barriers include the difficulty some women encounter when breastfeeding in public, widespread misleading marketing that formula is equivalent to breastfeeding, a lack of high quality services to prevent and treat any problems if they arise, a lack of community support, a lack of education about breastfeeding for young children, and lack of support for women to breastfeed in the workplacin public, widespread misleading marketing that formula is equivalent to breastfeeding, a lack of high quality services to prevent and treat any problems if they arise, a lack of community support, a lack of education about breastfeeding for young children, and lack of support for women to breastfeed in the workplacin the workplace.

Women breastfeeding in public have a wonderful opportunity to educate others about the importance of breastfeeding.

So she was out in public with her eight week old son and it says that she was at a cafe and she happened to be breastfeeding her baby and it says an elderly women, in not sure if it actually lists her name or sorry her age, but anyway this elderly women comes up to her and honestly the mom was like «oh no, she's going to tell me to cover up, she's going to be like, be mean about this or you know or how dare I be, you know doing this in public kind of thing» and the only thing the elderly wanted to do was to help the mom be able to eat.

That's fantastic, I think we talk a lot about normalizing breastfeeding, and the more women we see breastfeeding in public, the more other women will be inspired, and feel confident to do it as well.

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!

As shown in both quantitative and qualitative studies, the perception of breasts as sexual objects may lead women to feel uncomfortable about breastfeeding in public.

Now she's an inspiring breastfeeding mother around the world where women seek support to help them normalize breastfeeding in public and she also talks about practicing gentle parenting.

Plus, whether you nurse in front of your own kids or not shapes what they think about seeing women breastfeed in public, so I'd say the problems start at home on this one.

While out with her baby and husband, a woman noticed a mother breastfeeding her baby in a public park, nothing illegal about that, but this mother found it offensive as it was a public space and her husband was easily distracted by the sight.

Is there some kind of fear that if we start accepting breastfeeding in public without freaking out about covering up, women will eventually start walking around bare - breasted all the time?

Often when I post about a woman who has been harassed while breastfeeding in public or a blog post advocating for the fair treatment of breastfeeding women I see comments such as these:

For every story out there about a woman being shamed for breastfeeding in public, there is a person who insists they don't have a problem with it, yet follows that statement with «but why can't she just cover up?»

Despite laws that protect women's right to breastfeed in public, there are frequent press stories about women being advised against breastfeeding or humiliated in public for breastfeeding.

These include: cultural beliefs and pressures (e.g. anxiety about breastfeeding in public, beliefs about adequacy of milk supply); lack of availability of trained support; legislation to protect women who are breastfeeding; and commercial pressures from marketing and advertising of formula by manufacturers (Save the Children 2013).

Some women may feel uncomfortable and embarrassed about breastfeeding around others or in public.

That might be the first place I breastfeed in public as we asked questions, I was sitting there waiting and like I don't know why, though they must be ready to go [laughs] and so am sitting there and I had my baby and was he probably 5 weeks old and in my head I was like saying, «I should have been here sooner, I should have been here sooner», [laughs] which is irrelevant but that what's goes through your head and then I was like I guess I just do it and it was the meanest thing because I'm sitting on the floor with my baby and I didn't have to use the cover and I was just so «Oh, you just have to do it like in a room full of women» and everybody is in just as uncomfortable and everybody is trying to make this dance work and trying to get a rhythm and they needed this thing to be able to do and I would imagine for me it was a good transition to being in publicand not to worry about the cover but also for women like ok, this is your group for example.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

Every time I hear about another case of a woman breastfeeding her baby in a restaurant, department store or on a plane who is asked to cover up, head to the bathroom or leave altogether, I wonder why in 2014 we remain so incredibly uncomfortable with breastfeeding in public.

Public health nurses and social workers provided in - home education and health care to women and children, primarily in poor urban environments.3 4 At the beginning of the 20th century, the New York City Health Department implemented a home visitor program, using student nurses to instruct mothers about breastfeeding and hygiene.