Here's
the thing about breastfeeding in public.
Not exact matches
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.
The article itself is
about a mom who... Actually this is kind of an internal
thing, because the mom was out
breastfeeding in public and her dad who was with her is the one who had the problem with it, and actually did... I don't know.
AMY: I think that's really cool because it kind of helps normalize it and teaches kids at a young age that it's okay and then hopefully as they are older it normalizes
breastfeeding and makes it more of a normal
thing to see
in public because right now there's a lot of heat
about breastfeeding in public, is it okay, is it not okay?
You know, we've done... you know, talked
about several
things that had hit the news media, you know, circulation or whatever,
about moms trying to
breastfeed in public and then getting some negative feedback for it.
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She likes to chat
about it, dares you to say anything to her
about nursing
in public and is a walking PSA for all
things breastfeeding.
So,
things to look out for
in breastfeeding clothes if you're feeling nervous
about breastfeeding in public:
It's really great to have them supporting us and, but I am a part of this broader culture that we live
in our community and so I do feel like the whole
thing I mentioned
about kind of not really liking to
breastfeed in public and Rose you mentioned how you don't tell people often how you
breastfeed until four and it kind of makes me sad because I think you know, if everyone else
in the world is doing it until 4, maybe everyone else here is doing until 4 and we just, we are all too ashamed or maybe we would kind of be, if I would be a little more brave
about it, I would find a different circle of people that I am not so different from.
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.
Actually, there are lots of
things I'm glad no one told me
about breastfeeding in public.
«As a new mum,
breastfeeding does not always come naturally — it takes time and practice and the last
thing you need is to worry
about breastfeeding in public because you might show some flesh.»