UKIP leader Nigel Farage insists he has no problem
with women breastfeeding «wherever they want» amid a row over comments he made about the issue.
If ANY man takes issue
with these women breastfeeding, they need to make sure that they get vasectomies, as to not add to this world ending and horrific problem of slightly exposed mammary flesh.
Not everyone is on board
with a woman breastfeeding their baby in a public place, but that's their problem, not yours, so do whatever you feel comfortable with.
Most of the general public knows it too, and yet many people are still uncomfortable
with a woman breastfeeding in public.
Not exact matches
The ultimate survival guide for working,
breastfeeding women, leaves 88 percent of all moms
with no access to paid maternity leave.
For the most part, photos of female nipples are also banned from Instagram,
with the exception of post-mastectomy scarring,
women breastfeeding and photos of paintings and sculptures.
I agree; there is nothing morally wrong
with breastfeeding in public, especially since that is what God intended when He designed
woman.
There's NO problem
with a little boy or teenager or grown man seeing a
woman breastfeeding.
Also, consider this scenario — you are a typical slightly shy straight guy in the business world giving a presentation you have worked on for months, working on your social anxiety
with a psychologist, and a
woman in the front row starts
breastfeeding in front of you.
That being said, there is a definite lack of information out there for pregnant and
breastfeeding women with autoimmune diseases and I would like to start to help fill in that gap.
If a
woman couldn't
breastfeed because of lack of support or lack of maternity leave or social pressure and used formula and made her peace
with it and moved on, then hears about a campaign to provide others
with what she did not have, I think there is some pain (that she didn't have it) and anger (why should they get it when I didn't) that is a legitimate reaction that needs to be addressed before moving on.
You highlight that low supply can be complicated but
with the right support many
women can meet their
breastfeeding goals.
I agree
with Meagan, because I read someplace that
women with higher IQ are
breastfeeding more than others so it might also be related
with not neglecting their children and being more concerned for their welfare.
But all
women with these conditions apply should be aware that it could impact their ability to
breastfeed their baby.
Personally, i'm uncomfortable when a
woman is
breastfeeding conspicuously - i view it partly
with admiration but at the same time feel like I'm intruding and I instinctively want to avoid invading your personal space.
Often
women with low supply are let down by the
breastfeeding community because they rely on the idea that if your child does not have enough milk it is because you are not working hard enough.
Tomorrow evening, Jan. 2, barring any late - breaking big news stories, ABC's 20/20 is set to air an episode featuring segments on long - term (extended)
breastfeeding, as well as home birth (both
with and without midwives), serial surrogates (
women that have numerous babies for other
women), «fake babies» (life - like dolls), and orgasmic birth.
As someone who helps and supports
women with PCOS, hypoplastic breasts and
women who have had breast surgeries to successfully
breastfeed, I'm surprised your article doesn't mention midwives in your list of care providers who can be of help.
But this is so rare, that it didn't really register on their radar as a major issue to be dealt
with, like it is in North America where so few
women meet their own
breastfeeding goals.
In addition, if you are a healthcare provider working
with a
woman with diabetes, PCOS, hypoplasia or other conditions that impact her fertility, it is important to talk to her about the potential impact on her ability to
breastfeed.
While there have been advancements in fertility treatments in the Western world, allowing
women with fertility challenges to have babies, those same
women may not be aware that they could have trouble
breastfeeding as well.
I'm trying to come up
with an analogy to illustrate how ridiculous it is to give
women the message that they must
breastfeed without supporting them, but I can't.
And lots of
women choose to memorialize their
breastfeeding relationship
with some permanent ink.
And then, if a
woman finds herself in a situation where, for whatever reason, she has trouble
with breastfeeding, knowing where to look for help at the first sign of trouble is key.
Of course, it's impossible to prepare for every possible scenario, but if a
woman knows in advance that
breastfeeding jaundice is a normal occurrence and isn't always a cause for concern, then perhaps she can make better informed choices
with regard to her child's care.
Another myth that needs challenging, too many doctors take the cautious road and tell
women not to
breastfeed with medication when it's not necessary.
Women who exclusively
breastfeed are also more likely to be stay at home mothers whose children get to avoid daycare and all the germs that come
with it so those kids may tend to have less infections earlier in life.
The researchers said: «
breastfeeding promotion needs to be coupled
with protections for
women's work and earnings».
I am far more interested in providing
women with the assistance they need to meet their own feeding hopes and goals than to muddle over whether or not a
women who did not
breastfeed long enough (or at all) fits into some neat little category of the 3 - 5 %.
I agree
with you, but the only point which seems to be lacking is the incentive effect of greater protection for
breastfeeding mothers (and for
women of childbearing age and potential generally) on hiring and promotion decisions.
But they haven't proven it, and given all the caveats here (the fact the study in general has been wrong so many times before; the fact that
women who choose to
breastfeed for 2 years are quite different in many ways, not just
breastfeeding) give us good reason to take the findings
with a grain of salt.
If, in the end, it does turn out that
women who
breastfeed end up
with flatter career trajectories overall (and I'd love to see how something that typically lasts for a year affects a
woman for life... if there is a correlation I bet that
breastfeeding and other parenting decisions are co-incidental, not causational), well I guess like others, my response would be «so...?».
The Economic Consequences of
Breastfeeding for
Women» study got in touch and has shared
with me the draft results of their study (the ones that Rosin had and quoted, but didn't link to).
They were just trying to make me feel better, and I get that, but they were filled
with bad advice about «so many
women that just can't
breastfeed».
However, on the cost side, most of the costs are costs of the decisions that
women may or may not make
with regards to the way that they choose to balance
breastfeeding and work.
From my own experience,
with Child 1 I couldn't pump nearly enough milk so we ended up buying lots of formula anyway (between that, the cost of the pump and the hands - free bras, the cost of the journey to get his tongue tie snipped, and the extra maternity leave I took, I may well be one of the few
women to have made an overall loss from
breastfeeding).
I have a few qualms about his hunch that «The key difference is likely to come down to the demands of
breastfeeding following the birth of a child — an activity that's energy - intensive, time - consuming, and quite difficult to integrate
with paid work, at least as work is currently structured» — because that assumes that all
women who want a high status - high income partner plan to have children.
-LSB-...] We need to keep providing medical, technical and moral support to
women who are struggling
with breastfeeding.
The other thing the researchers said in their introduction that was conveniently not mentioned by Hanna Rosin in her article is that «should
breastfeeding be shown to have a negative impact on work outcomes, our study will provide evidence that
breastfeeding promotion needs to be coupled
with protections for
women's work and earnings».
When I say «However, on the cost side, most of the costs are costs of the decisions that
women may or may not make
with regards to the way that they choose to balance
breastfeeding and work.
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.
Education during pregnancy rarely has anything serious to do
with breastfeeding, and since
breastfeeding is perceived by most pre-parenthood
women to be a natural, instinctive thing instead of a learned behavior (on both mom & baby's part) if it doesn't go absolutely perfectly from the first moments they may feel something is wrong
with THEM and clam up about it while quietly giving the baby the hospital - offered bottle along
with the bag of formula samples they give out «just in case» even if you explicitly tell them you're
breastfeeding (which was my experience
with my firstborn in 2004 and one of the many highly informed reasons I chose to birth my next two at home).
Breastfeeding can be lonely when you're flying solo, but if you manage to find a group of
women who are in the same nursing boat as you (and on the same feeding schedule), it can suddenly become a fun, bonding activity to share
with fellow mamas.
Whether it's a simple matter of preference, a fluke of the body, or a constraint of class, all of factors that cause a
woman not to
breastfeed should be treated
with equal respect.
«Despite the best of intentions,
women are bombarded
with messages that lead them to believe if they stray from
breastfeeding they are potentially harming their newborn child....
Induced lactation is still an option for
women who become moms through adoption or surrogacy, or for moms who wish to share
breastfeeding with their partner.
Some
breastfeeding women feel sexier,
with larger breasts and a heightened sensation, but others feel overwhelmed, exhausted, less attractive, and uninterested in sex.
Columbia University Press, $ 24.95 This wide - ranging collection of
women's quotations is crammed
with nuggets on every subject imaginable, from politics to prostitution and from books to
breastfeeding.
Knowing all this information was out there, I couldn't believe there was anyone who didn't
breastfeed these days, other than uneducated teenage moms, those
with uncompromising work situations, or those unfortunate
women who were physically unable to do so (and according to what I had read on the La Leche League website, there were very few of these
women out there - far fewer than the formula lobby and misinformed doctors would have us believe).
You would think that knowing how to
breastfeed should come naturally, but
women do struggle
with it.