Comments on: Can Early Public Breastfeeding Sightings Shape One’s Future Breastfeeding Practices?

By: Monday Musings: Are You Going? | Breastfeeding Moms Unite

Monday Musings: Are You Going? | Breastfeeding Moms Unite — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:26:06 +0000

[...] exposure for breastfeeding, especially for the young women who aren’t moms yet whose perception of the normalcy of breastfeeding and future paractices might change upon seeing a large group of happy breastfeeding mamas. The one year we held it at the [...]

By: AMY

AMY — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:59:32 +0000

I think breastfeeding a two year old is gross.
Once they have teeth and can talk. I think its just the mother craving attention. Woman who want to shock people or get a reaction out of them by doing this in public. It’s a mental thing. Why can’t you just cover up, most babies are distracted and need quiet to feed. I just pumped into bottles for public outings.

By: Would you, could you breastfeed in public? | PhD in Parenting

Would you, could you breastfeed in public? | PhD in Parenting — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:49:20 +0000

[...] I would do it at DQ. [...]

By: baby carrier

baby carrier — Wed, 27 May 2009 10:09:31 +0000

breastfeeding is good for the the baby health, but i do’t think anyone should breastfeed their baby in public.

By: Upstatemomof3

Upstatemomof3 — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:15:32 +0000

The only time I remember seeing someone nursing as a child was when my aunt was nursing her younger son. I remember she was sent out to her car (because ya know it would have been terrible if the rest of us had seen her nurse the baby). This has had a huge impact on me as has the fact that my family is horrified at the idea. I fee pressure to run and hide every time I nurse. Upstatemomof3’s last blog post..So How Do You Tackle Running A Daycare?

By: TheFeministBreeder

TheFeministBreeder — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:29:53 +0000

Okay, first I have to tell you something I keep forgetting to tell you each time I comment. Your posts are appearing in a frame that I’m not able to scroll back and forth on, so I can’t read a lot of your posts. I can only read until almost the end of a sentence, but I miss at least 3 or 4 words at the end of each line. There’s an up and down scroll bar, but not one that goes across in the frame, so it’s all cut off. It looks like a table/div tag issue.

Moving on….

Yes, the first (and only time) I ever saw a woman nursing (before I started nursing) totally and completely put me off nursing all together.

I come from a long line of serious mountain hillbilly/white trash types. I remember we visited my cousin’s family once when I was around 10, and this aunt of mine, who was a gigantic, dirty, obese slob, pulled out a 10 lb tit covered in toilet paper, and stuck the boob, toilet paper and all, into the baby’s mouth.

All I remember after that was my grandmother saying something really derogatory about that aunt and her “nasty titty.”

That was all I knew of nursing, so when the first nurse at the clinic asked me if I was breastfeeding, that image popped into my brain and I said “Hell no!”

Of course, things changed for me and now I’m a huge lactivist. But yes, that initial encounter is an image that is burned into my brain to this very day. It has a lot more to do with my white trash family than with nursing though.

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By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 26 May 2009 04:13:39 +0000

it was more of research and friends’ testimonials that influenced me. at this time, i am able to nurse my 1.5y.o toddler in public.. i have started to get comments like.. isn’t she too old? but i always point them to that caveat/disclaimer which comes after milk ads or printed on our milk cans (at least in the philippines) which says: “breastmilk is best for babies 2 years and beyond”. usually, that shuts them up