Not exact matches
That being said, I also tend to take a bottle and some formula if I might need to
feed the
baby in a way
more public area (like a restaurant).
And
in those very
public areas, it's often way
more efficient to
feed the
baby a bottle (again, wiggly and distracted) than to nurse, anyway.
It is
in honor of this dick - whipping that I have found even
more dudes who just can't tolerate the idea of a woman
feeding her
baby with her breasts
in public.
While breastfeeding
in public is becoming
more and
more normal and accepted, there still might be some people who think that your
baby should not be
fed wherever and whenever he wants to.
Breastfeeding is not an easy task
in itself and it really is a shame that it is not made
more easy for a woman to comfortably
feed her
baby while
in public.
The
more women breastfeed without shame
in public, the faster it will gain acceptance,
in my view:)
Babies need to be
fed, breastfeeding is their birthright, and the people who think it's «gross» are the ones who need to adjust their attitudes, not us.
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!
Even just a cursory Internet search shows that breastfeeding promotion materials framed
in terms of «the risks of formula
feeding» are currently being used by some state breastfeeding coalitions, two hospitals, two private corporations, the Departments of
Public Health
in California and New York, the City of New York, as well as The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) programs
in at least five states... The United States Department of Health and Human Services» Office on Women's Health publishes a 50 - page guide to breastfeeding that points out that «among formula -
fed babies, ear infections and diarrhea are
more common».
I am such a strong believer
in the fact that if society was
more accepting of breastfeeding and particularly seeing breastfeeding happen
in public places that
more mums would attempt and continue to
feed their
babies for longer.
As much as they claim to be victimised for
public breastfeeding, FFing parents are frequently compared to child abusers, told that they are
feeding their
babies poison, that they don't deserve to have children and shown sensationalist «infographics» like the ones a few posts back which stated that formula
fed babies are x times
more likely to die within the first year of life without even accounting for the numerous confounding factors that would cause those numbers to be elevated
in the first place.
I'm a real proponent of nursing
in public (I think the
more people see women nursing their
babies out
in public the
more normal it will become and the less stressful it will be for women who need to
feed their
babies while they're outside) but I try to do it as discreetly as possible.
The required provision of
baby changing facilities was a large step towards making
public places
more accessible for parents and
in many countries there are now laws
in place to protect the rights of a breastfeeding mother when
feeding her child
in public.
The
more babies feeding in public the better as then it would be
more common and acceptable for all!
I have received
more judgement for pulling out a bottle to
feed my children than I've ever seen a nursing mother get for
feeding her
baby in public.
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.)