photo by celesteh Welcome to the
Carnival of Nursing in Public Please join us all week, July 5 - 9, as we celebrate and support breastfeeding mothers.
Carothers would like to see more businesses provide a discreet place for working mothers to pump breast milk; greater
acceptance of nursing in public areas, such as malls; and family and friends of breast - feeding mothers lending more support.
Staffing of nurses in public schools has been a hot topic over the last year, and this bill aims to increase the minimum number of hours that a nurse works at a public school to 40 hours.
Staffing
of nurses in public schools has been a hot topic over the last year, and this bill aims to increase the minimum number of hours that a nurse works at a public school to 40 hours.
Once you get comfortable and confident with your own
way of nursing in public it will become incredibly easy and convenient to be out and about anywhere with your child (even up hill and down dale on a Yorkshire country walk).
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.
Just a fun fact, from a former Cast Member — Disney Cast Members are instructed specifically in training about the
importance of nursing in public and that it is 100 % legal and acceptable for women to do so anywhere in the parks or property.
Stories collected will serve as resource for mothers to reach their breastfeeding goals (whether it be as ambitious as to breastfeed past the first year, overcome the
stigma of nursing in public or to simply know it's okay to stop nursing baby when mom is at that point.)
Since you can't expect to stay cooped up in your house every time you breastfeed, it's probably a good idea to get acquainted with the
idea of nursing in public.
The
matter of nursing in public and the bigger issues of our culture's stunted growth in this area, however, continues to compel me to speak on the topic.
As someone who has been writing about breastfeeding from the outset of blogging, I was thrilled to see a Carnival
of Nursing in Public take shape.
But the campaign for greater
acceptance of nursing in public — and all those detractors who recoil when they see a mother feeding a baby just as her body is programmed to do — pales next to the startling image of Grumet feeding a boy who clearly doesn't need breast milk to thrive.
I'm running around like crazy getting ready to leave for San Diego / BlogHer 2011, so I am reaching into the archives to republish one of my favorite breastfeeding posts, originally published as an entry in the Carnival
of Nursing in Public, July 2010: