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.
Not exact matches
I'm still
breastfeeding for my girls and as far as nursing
in public is concerned I
mean I had my
babies like boom boom boom right, so there wasn't a lot of getting out of the house.
SUNNY GAULT: Yeah, I
mean, I think that's, you know, the whole point with the whole
baby - friendly initiative is, you know, when moms come
in to a hospital, you really don't know their background, you don't know, you know, did their mom
breastfeed, you know, have they, you know, have they ever seen someone nursing
in public, like you don't know where they start off.
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.
Most people are supportive of mothers
breastfeeding their
babies, even if it
means doing so
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.
Evenflo has since decided to abandon the WHO Code
in favor of more marketing, and one of the results is this advertisement that mocks
breastfeeding in public, depicting uncomfortable and pushy
in - laws who claim that
breastfeeding means no one else can feed and thus bond with the
baby, and includes an awkward scene after the mom pumps (We wanted to be able to share the video with you but after a strong backlash it appears to have been pulled but not after millions had already viewed it.)