New Year's resolution--who's with me?

[Beth-TX]

I'm making a resolution to make and effort to nurse in public more often and with less modesty. My baby doesn't like it when I try to cover up and we're both more comfortable with my shirt pulled all the way up, whole breast exposed.

I was really upset over the AAP blocking the pro breastfeeding campaign. I feel like maybe they can stop the DHHS, but they can't stop me from promoting breastfeeding!

Who's with me?

peace, Beth

[Evergreen]

ME!!!

I always NIP, but now that dd is almost one I have cut back a bit because she is easily distracted. Yeserday, though, she was pulling at my shirt and smacking her lips while we waited in line, so I got out of line and plopped down in a big comfy leather chair for a quick nursing session. THe guy behind me even offered me my spot in line back when we were finished. Turnsout he has 4 month old who nurses on demand!

[TiredX2]

Good idea!

Though... since DS (my baby) is 28 months old I doubt we could get any more often and public than we already are! :LOL

[luvmy3boys]

I am definitely in, however, for us that won't really be a change.

[rareimer]

won't be a change for me really, but i am in too!

[Sustainer]

I'm with you! I never put my daughter off just because we're in public, and I have always exposed my entire breast when we breastfeed.

[Elphaba]

here's another mama to a 27-month-old who still nurses in public. we're not shy about it either! :LOL

[mom3]

I'm with you! At 20 months my boys don't nurse as much as they used to but I'm more than happy to give them their "milkies" whenever they want it!

[NoraB]

Right on! I have gotten much less "modest" about my NIP'ing in the last few months. I don't "flop out" the bb, but I don't stress if DD raises my shirt while nursing.

[onegr8mom03]

ha ha.
I've gotten less modest too just in the fact that I don't cover up anymore, but i still haven't gotten that brave, to just let it not be covered mostly by the shirt. I'll sure it will come though, most at home i never wear a bra and i think ds is starting to prefere it that way all the time, (i know i am!)

[pageta]

I'm with you. I already breastfeed everywhere - my resolution is to not let a few naysayers discourage me. I wear nursing tops, and I never ask permission to nurse. If ds is hungry, I feed him. No one every has the guts to complain about it to my face, though I hear they have behind my back. Oh well!

[StarMama]

I'm in, but like others, not much of a change here though. I've got a wrap sling that I have to expose my entire breast for Orion (I need to pull my shirt down, not up) and I know I've embarrased Dh's boss nursing at his work before like that (to Dh's credit I think it was a little weird for him too but he didn't say anything). In my maya wrap nothing really shows, not by my design, I keep pulling up to keep the fabric off Orion's face (*I* wouldn't like that myself!) but I don't pull the shirt really high because I want my tummy covered around the edges of the sling (I could care less about showing my boobies, but my tummy?! ).

[flower]

I'm in!

Last night at Ikea my 18 month old was calling for his baba's so I plopped down in front of the long Returns line ready to make my statement (lol!) but he was too distracted to nurse....oh, well. At least lots of people saw me settle him in and offer the breast.

We'll keep trying

[XM]

LOL I have never been discreet! Boobs are just too big for that Even the very first time I NIP I didn't use anything to cover up... I was feeling so vulnerable, as ds was still perfecting his latch and I was still learning myself, but no one gave me so much as an odd look. One lady looked like she was approaching me to see the baby but when she saw I was BFing she just smiled and kept going...

I guess I've been lucky that no one (except my infamous boss, lol) has given me a hard time about it. I never ask permission, why should I My mom said something about maybe making my uncle uncomfortable if I nursed while he was over, and I laughed and told her if it was an issue he could go to another room. He made an effort to avert his eyes the first time, but then he got over himself.

Do BFers still cover themselves while NIP? I just never saw the point.

XM

[StarMama]

LoL XM! I SO understand the big boob hard to cover issue! I tried to cover a few times in my moby wrap when I have to bring my breast out over my shirt, but I quickly got over that when so many people wanted to see the baby anyways, and the blanket over his head was just such a bother!

I was just nursing at Ikea on saturday too flower! After a friend's boy's 1st birthday (happy birthday Joe and congrats on being an extended nurser now mama2bababoo!!). When she was telling her BIL who was at Ikea with her he was like "Oh your friend who had her boob out the whole party with her baby's lips showing on the nipple?" (or something pretty close to that) and she was like "Yup!" And I got a bunch o' evil looks at Ikea (I didn't even notice half of them! LOL!)

My breasts are not even sexual objects at all to me anymore. I never liked to have them engaged with during sex even before Orion was born, and now that I'm nursing him, hell they might as well be elbows as far as modesty is concerned to me!

[flower]

Lisa Lynn

ok, this is really weird but I may have seen you there! The Emeryville one, right?

Were you there in the evening on Saturday, around 7pm or so? We were walking through the kitchen table/chairs area and I saw a woman with a baby in a sling (I checked your pic link and it looked like you..) talking with another couple with a baby in a Bjorn? The other baby may have been worn (or held?) by his dad (a tall guy).

The only reason this woman stood out for me is because the baby was in a sling and I always notice a possible kindred

This group was standing and talking in front of the display with the front porch, kitchen, living room, bedroom. I believe if you crossed through behind there you would be right where the elevators (and dining room/kids area) is.

Ignore me if this wasn't you but I thought it worth mentioning because, well, how WEIRD would that be????? LOL

[StarMama]

Yeah Flower that *was* me! How cool! I don't recall talking to another couple with their babe in a bjorn, but I do remember seeing a few kiddos in them around us while we were there (and I could have been talking to them, I don't remember loooong day there ). I was with a group with another little one (Joe, 1 year old that day! and an older girl... goodness I forget her name again! But she was about 5). And we were hanging out in that little fake house set up for a long time (I was nursing a ton there too)

Here's a photo of me and Orion in the sling I was wearing that day I kept putting my hair up, then taking it down, so either it was in a bun, or down, very long, just past my behind...

[flower]

small world!

Wow, I still can't believe it was you. Total small world.

We don't get over to the East Bay very often (we live in Marin County). Occasionally Ikea or the Berkeley Habitot but I'll keep my eye open for you just in case!

I'll pm you my pic just in case you might have seen me, too.