So,
nursing in public too was extremely difficult because I'm not just there yet as far as being able to go without a covering.
They are so great for
nursing in public too.
Not exact matches
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 was uncomfortable
nursing out
in public spaces,
too, so I tried her on her first bottle of formula.
Here are 7 adorable
nursing covers if you,
too, suffer from being either embarrassed to
nurse in public or embarrassed about feeling that way!
Also if I were to think about it, I want to be an example for moms who might be a bit hesitant to
nurse in public, I want it
too seem normal and that lots of women do it.
Stories of mothers being harassed for
nursing in public, cases where moms give up
nursing too soon because they lacked support, or even hospitals that push formula as the norm to new moms pop up all
too often.
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 out
in public and your baby cries or someone else's baby cries or you see a baby or you think about
nursing or you just waited
too long to get back to your baby and
nurse or maybe you just sneezed the wrong way, you're going to leak all over your shirt.
The only thing I didn't master was
nursing with the sling
in public because my baby is
too nosey and want to see and hear everything while
nursing, I know lol.
I do
nurse in public without covering
too, but I do it discretely.
Being a large - breasted woman (lucky me... grrrr), I always felt extremely
too self - conscious to breast feed
in public, and
too scared to throw a blanket over me because I always wanted to make sure there was adequate air pocket for my daughters to breath (these dang boobs are no joke) That being said, I always escaped to either a
nursing room (which all
too often don't exist
in public places), or would retreat to my car and feed them.
It is
too bad western society has such a hangup about breastfeeding
in public & extended
nursing.
I may have been a little *
too * comfortable
nursing in public... I just didn't care... To me, breasts equaled nutrients; they were far from anything even remotely sexual.
Actually, people say this about newborns
too when they don't want to see
nursing in public.
And who is going to decide when a baby gets
too old to
nurse in public, or when the mother should start teaching her child that he should wait?
Yes, not all mothers want to
nurse in public, or sometimes they are feeling
too tired to
nurse.
There are just
too many moms being shamed for
nursing in public and I think I may have a solution.
Especially if we
nurse in public, you kind of just know the things to say
too.