Plus, whether you nurse in front of your own kids or not shapes what they think about
seeing women breastfeed in public, so I'd say the problems start at home on this one.
I see women breastfeeding in public every day, and no one thinks anything of it.
Not exact matches
«misogynistic and twisted» yes, those must be the words that come to mind when one doesn't want to
see some white trash
woman breastfeeding her kid
in a
public place.
I've
seen plently of
women breastfeed in public and only two of them made a huge deal of it and then got offended when asked to cover up a little.
So I'm not cool with touting this photo as a celebration that
breastfeeding has «made it» - I am happy about all the conversations I
see around it about the way
women in non-glamorous situations feel about
breastfeeding in public and photos of
breastfeeding publicly displayed.
See, it's not so much about a
woman's right to
breastfeed in public or her supposed «need» to expose herself.
I'd like to
see more
women standing up to this and
breastfeeding in public.
As I have
seen a lot of
women nursing
in public in different countries through the years, I noticed that there are 3 main types of
women who
breastfeed in public:
That's fantastic, I think we talk a lot about normalizing
breastfeeding, and the more
women we
see breastfeeding in public, the more other
women will be inspired, and feel confident to do it as well.
If you fall into the category of
women who want to
breastfeed in public but would rather not display your boobs for all to
see, then a great nursing cover is your secret weapon.
Overall, I think the symbol is a good thing and that the more people who
see it and, even on the smallest subconscious level, think of
breastfeeding as normal and something that
women are going to be doing
in public, the better.
One reason that rates are so high initially and then plummet almost immediately when it comes to exclusivity and duration is because most
women are not c omfortable
breastfeeding in public because the
public is not comfortable
seeing them
breastfeed.
Often when I post about a
woman who has been harassed while
breastfeeding in public or a blog post advocating for the fair treatment of
breastfeeding women I
see comments such as these:
And so it's such a great way of helping these moms with younger babies get over their fears because they
see all these other
women breastfeeding in public and it's no big deal so I just think you know power and numbers to like it definitely helps you overcome your fear if you're not the only one doing it.
Women are
seen breastfeeding their babies at the Hirshhorn Museum
in Washington during a «nurse -
in» organized after a
woman was stopped from nursing
in public by museum security guards.
When I was a teen, I remember
seeing women breastfeeding their babies
in public and thinking how beautiful they looked.