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Not exact matches
I'm just fine with mothers
breastfeeding but
if you are going to do it in
public you have to be comfortable with the fact that there are other people around you.
Have some decency and cover up
if you
breastfeed in
Public.
If you don't like seeing
public breastfeeding, it's YOU with the problem.
I am ok with
public breastfeeding,
if masturbation and peeing in
public become legal too (it's all about perception).
If men tried to
breastfeed THAT would be a
public nuisance.
Twenty - eight states exempt women from
public indecency charges
if they
breastfeed in
public.
It's amazing the number of things you never have to consider before becoming a parent —
breastfeed or formula feed; cloth diapers or disposables; vaccinations; when to start solids; organic vs. conventional foods;
public school, private school or homeschool; and, of course,
if you are having a boy — whether or not to circumcise.
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 know there are worse problems, but I imagine
if I had been someone more uncomfortable with being open about
breastfeeding, I would never have been able to handle it in
public when my milk would spray everywhere (go ahead and chuckle.
It really IS everyone else's problem
if they don't like seeing a flash of flesh in
public during a
breastfeeding.
While I love that it helps to normalize
breastfeeding in the
public eye, I also feel like it almost sets an unattainable standard
if that is the bar we are advertising as acceptable.
I'd also like to add something else to that conversation, and that's that
if you don't like
breastfeeding in
public or feel uncomfortable doing it at the DMV or doctor's office or in an Olive Garden, that's okay too.
Vote in this
breastfeeding poll and learn
if other moms
breastfeed in
public.
Decide for yourself that
if he doesn't accept formula, you have a plan B. I.e.
breastfeeding and pumping and feeding him the milk in a bottle, or reconsidering
breastfeeding in
public.
If you
breastfeed and are comfortable with doing it in
public and your baby sleeps well in his stroller, you might only have to keep an eye on your watch and you'll be fine.
There's something about a
breastfeeding mother and child that stirs deep and wistful memories of days gone by and becomes a visible role model for other mothers wondering
if it is «okay» to do that in
public.
If you are aware enough of the surrounding, discreet
breastfeeding can be a nice choice while
breastfeeding in
public.
If you think that
breastfeeding mothers need to cover up while in
public, then I do not support your opinion.
Did you know you could sue someone
if they keep you or ask you to not
breastfeed your child in
public?
I'm all for women's right to
breastfeed openly in
public without being relegated to hiding in a bathroom stall or even behind a nursing cover
if they don't want to, but all the belief in that right considered, it's still a little odd the first few (OK, all the) times you bust out a boob at a restaurant table.
Even
if said
breastfeeding should occur in the place where that baby gets hungry: in
public.
Sadly this is the second comment I've seen saying that
breastfeeding in
public would be ok «
if she were hot».
If we grow up seeing babies
breastfeed,
breastfeeding is seen in the media, it's just as accepted as formula feeding in
public or private....
If you cared about
public health, you'd spend a lot of time encouraging vaccination and very little time encouraging
breastfeeding.
It would be great
if breastfeeding ads focused on how to support a
breastfeeding mother, at work, at home, in
public, rather than putting all of the responsibility on the mother alone to «do the right thing»
If you still want to feed in
public,
Breastfeeding Place has a great post with advice on tips on how to do it.
Feed your baby with them and they are suddenly the most offensive body part in the world, and
if you want to
breastfeed your baby in
public some of these guys feel they should be able to whip their dicks out and urinate anyplace they want.
If you have chosen to
breastfeed, you are without a doubt, going to face the task of feeding your baby in
public.
Because society has chosen to still think
breastfeeding is a taboo act for the
public, there are limited (
if any at all!)
I vowed my allegiance to breast milk and proclaimed that I would do whatever it took to give him the nutrition he needed, even
if that meant
breastfeeding my baby in
public.
«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 workplace.
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.
If you are more comfy covering while nursing in
public... this hat is what you are looking for!!!!
If you are an incognito
breastfeeding Mummie, you find yourself using anything you can get your hands on: blanket, tent, winow covers, umbreslla, another erson, your hands, a stroller, at toy.
I'm shy about my showing my body, even
if I totally support the practice of
public breastfeeding; This would have been a seriously big deal for me.
If you see another mother breastfeeding her child in public, especially if it's her toddler, give her a smile and a big thumbs u
If you see another mother
breastfeeding her child in
public, especially
if it's her toddler, give her a smile and a big thumbs u
if it's her toddler, give her a smile and a big thumbs up.
We don't expect that you will be confronted by people objecting to you
breastfeeding in
public very often -
if ever.
Recently, and one of the few times this has come up in my life, someone suggested that
if I wanted to avoid negative attention while feeding my kid in
public, I could just use a
breastfeeding cover.
In fact, I think those conversations are vital
if we are going to normalize
breastfeeding and make it safer for women to
breastfeed in
public whenever and wherever they need to.
However,
if you've decided to take the unapologetic
public breastfeeding path, there's good news for you.
Awkward and very self - aware, she hated
breastfeeding in
public and she never posted
breastfeeding pictures online (does that mean she even really
breastfed if she didn't take and share a #brelfie?
Most of the time when I was nursing in
public, I doubt anyone but a mother who had also
breastfed knew what I was doing — I often had people ask
if they could see the baby, totally unaware that she was eating at the time.
If vulgarity is the issue, we can outlaw
breastfeeding when we outlaw people with nasty table manners from dining in
public.
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?
You'll see quite a bit of her
if you live in Marin County She and two of her friends will hang in
public places doing the unthinkable for hours on end:
breastfeed in
public.
But do what feels comfortable to you,
if your able to tandem
breastfeed in
public that's awesome!
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.
SUNNY GAULT: Alright, alright well we will go ahead and we will post the link to our Facebook page mommas
if you want to check this out and share it because we need more positivity about
breastfeeding in
public.
Don't like
if a mother
breastfeeds in
public?
-- I used a nursing poncho to cover myself when I would
breastfeed in
public and only do it
if I had someone to hand them to me.