She put her baby to her breast for the first time since the meeting had started, smiled shyly at me, and said in halting English, «This my first
time breastfeeding in public.»
I remember my first
time breastfeeding in public.
And what they have done is, they have decided to help different states realize how challenging it can be for women to meet their breastfeeding goals when they are having a tough
time breastfeeding in public.
Not exact matches
I'm all for
breastfeeding but can't you plan your feeding
times around the one hour you go to church, or for that matter, when you're out
in public?
I
breastfed both my babies
in public all the
time, including church pews.
Some moms prefer the security of a nursing cover when its
time to
breastfeed in public.
Be confident while
breastfeeding in public and you'll surely get the hang of it
in less
time.
I still have some fears about
breastfeeding in public (even with a nursing cover) but it gets easier each
time I do it.
Something like
breastfeeding in public, flying alone with your baby, or leaving a teenaged babysitter
in charge for the first
time.
I'm all for women's right to
breastfeed openly
in public without being relegated to hiding
in a bathroom stall or even behind a nursing cover if they don't want to, but all the belief
in that right considered, it's still a little odd the first few (OK, all the)
times you bust out a boob at a restaurant table.
The only
time I've read horrifically nasty comments on an article or blog post other than on
breastfeeding in public or circumcision, is regarding flying with an infant.
I have spent a lot of
time in France and didn't see any moms
breastfeeding in public while I was there.
Dramatically stir
in the deliberately controversial,
Time Magazine cover of a mother provocatively posed
breastfeeding her four year old, and the underlining true
public sentiment bursts open.
Frequency and
timing of
breastfeeding may be inconvenient for the mother, especially
in public places or very late at night.
I spent more
time nursing
in public then doing that at home as I
breastfed in quite few countries
in Europe, Asia and North America.
Being able to
breastfeed in public I was able to get out and do chores, live my social life, entertain my older child at the park, museum or library, go out and have lunch with my husband, even travel across the ocean few
times.
Recently, and one of the few
times this has come up
in my life, someone suggested that if I wanted to avoid negative attention while feeding my kid
in public, I could just use a
breastfeeding cover.
Most of the
time when I was nursing
in public, I doubt anyone but a mother who had also
breastfed knew what I was doing — I often had people ask if they could see the baby, totally unaware that she was eating at the
time.
Robin Kaplan: Yeah, and so - actually Whitney and Daisy, I'd love for you to kind of answer this question as well: After your harassment incident - Whitney, you mentioned that you had a really tough
time leaving the house when it was feeding
time because of this incident - so would you say you're pretty nervous about
breastfeeding in public after this?
I spent a lot of
time nursing
in my van or
in a dressing room, not because I'm against
breastfeeding in public, but because it was so awkward and revealing to get ourselves set up.
This was not the case at all when I had Leo, as a first
time mum I found
breastfeeding in public really nerve wracking to begin with and would go to great lengths to try and be as discrete as possible.
Now I am
breastfeeding for the second
time and I don't worry about feeding
in public at all but there are definitely some places I feel more confident than others.
There are things people feel fine saying to women
breastfeeding in public, and I think it's
time breastfeeding moms start talking back.
When it comes to
breastfeeding in public I have learnt not to be self conscious and I am so much more confident now than I was as a first
time breastfeeding mummy.
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 realize there were only precious few
times that I
breastfed my kid
in public.
If you thought getting glares while discreetly
breastfeeding your newborn under a nursing cover, huddled
in a tiny crowded space, was uncomfortable, try nursing an active two - year - old on a
public park bench; or better yet, imagine the judgment you'd get if you announced you were going to nurse your adopted African baby for the first
time... at age three.
«The first
time I ever
breastfed in public was last summer when my daughter was 8 months old.
By 18 months, we were still
breastfeeding in public and he was nursing 8 - 10
times per day.
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I had bought
breastfeeding clothing available at that
time and I realize the clothing was not giving me the discretion I wanted when nursing
in public places or
in front of other people.
All those
times you see babies
in public using pacifiers, a
breastfed baby might be nursing w / the frequency of the use of the pacifier by the non-nursing baby.
Her poem Embarrassed, about her own experiences of
breastfeeding in public, which also touched on issues such as the aggressive marketing of breastmilk substitutes and the unnecessary death and suffering this causes, has been viewed over seven million
times online.
Or, the next
time you're nursing
in public and someone asks, «Are you ever going to stop
breastfeeding?»
Don't worry about what people are thinking around you, when its
time to
breastfeed, especially
in the
public!
However, despite opposition from medical authorities,
public health official and the police, many parents
in Western socieities are increasingly adopting night -
time infant caregiving patterns that include some cosleeping, especially by those mothers who choose to
breastfeed.
Is there some kind of fear that if we start accepting
breastfeeding in public without freaking out about covering up, women will eventually start walking around bare - breasted all the
time?
Thankfully when I was still pregnant with her, one of my mama friends shared a little tip with me that made a huge difference
in my
breastfeeding in public success the second
time around.
Comprised of health professionals from hospitals, clinics, state - level
public health departments, and universities, concerned parents and citizens, and volunteers from community organizations, each member contributes
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I didn't have any shame and I
breastfed in public on countless occasions, but if I could go back
in time and talk to the new mom, just three - months postpartum, holding her infant some while he happily eats, I'd tell her that she doesn't have to
breastfeed in public if she doesn't want to.
He may have said it a couple of
times that why don't we just do formula because it would be a pain and as a new mom I was really struggling with doing this
in public and when you do, that was almost six years ago, and thankfully there has been more light shed on
breastfeeding in public and nursing
in public because I really didn't see any other moms nursing
in public then.
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in public I'm expecting my second baby
in a few months and really want to
breastfeed this
time around.
With my first daughter, even though I was excited to no longer have to wear
breastfeeding tops and bras, or worry about where I could feed discretely while out
in public, I missed the
time we spent together during those
breastfeeding sessions.
And it sounds like just
in other cultures where they are
breastfeeding in public all the
time and they are doing extended
breastfeeding and
breastfeeding is not as sexualized as it is
in the West and that's kind of really where we need to go with this.
Robin Kaplan: I remember the first
time I
breastfeed my son
in public, he was 6 weeks old and we had had challenges up until right before then.
I am still
breastfeeding now that he's a toddler but I can't remember the last
time I nursed him
in public — probably on an airplane.
They make
breastfeeding easier, not just because baby is close anyway, but it is great for discreet
breastfeeding in public, taking away some of the nerves first
time breastfeeding mums may have about it.
Anyway, if you're as annoyed by ignorant meddling as I am, or you're worried about being accosted the next
time you nurse your kid
in public, or spend a lot of
time participating
in internet comment threads about
breastfeeding, here's a cheat sheet for responding to comments you're likely to encounter.
And visit NursingFreedom.org any
time to connect with other
breastfeeding supporters, learn more about your legal right to nurse
in public, and read (and contribute!)
I'm hoping that continuing to take my supplements and starting domperidone will take me to exclusive levels of production, but all I know is that I haven't received shade from formula feeders but I have received it from breastfeeders, and that makes me sad because I unapologetically nurse our son uncovered, remind everyone that boobs were made for feeding so they can deal with
breastfeeding in public, feel that breastmilk is truly the best for babies and have an extremely hard
time with the fact that I can't feed him just breast.