oh course those uncomfortable with breastfeeding should be reminded that i if breastfeeding was 'obscene' it would be banned for corrupion of the babies who breastfeed since that is ridiculous so is the classification of breastfeeding as obscene.
In the uk the nhs are trying to promote breastfeeding but a couple of the nurses seem embarrassed when i've breast fed my baby who happened to be kept in over night in a private room. I'm not embarrassed, why are they? Surely as a nurse you see more 'shocking' things than breastfeeding, wellbeing of children especially in a children's hospital should be paramount.
Another consideration is equal rights and emotional wellbeing of breastfeeding mothers. My baby feeds for approximately 45 mins each time 8 times a day and seems to prefer to have just 1 evening feed, she also has very bad reflux she needs to be kept upright with no pressure on her stomach for over half an hour after a feed and choses to feed every 2 hours and often needs refeeding after this if she has lost a lot of food. So, it can be very difficult to feed her before going out in car or pram as when in car seat or pram she projectle vomits. So i often have my lo screaming to be breastfed in waiting rooms e.g at doctors appointments and at the moment she is refusing any milk out of a bottle even expressed milk. Every time I am 'encouraged' to use the breastfeeding rooms by staff, but it's been v. hot weather here recently and the rooms tend to be hot, oppressive, small,stuffy and even dirty at the best of times. I have spent what feels like the last 2 months sat on my backside, indoors feeding my baby at home. This sort of isolation and to be honest boredom, not to mention some of the other downsides eg mastitits has made me want to give up breastfeeding altogether, but when i think what my baby seems to want and what at the current time research mainly to be best for her health I realise the importance for me to continue breastfeeding. So why can't i feed my baby discretely in waiting rooms full of other mums and babies,? Well I can and that is enshrined in law in this country, It makes be very proud and feel very lucky to live in the UK! If some of the mums bottlefeeding their babies don't like it (some i am sure give me funny looks) they can go and ask for a cramped stuffy horrible room to sit in for 45 minutes while they give their babies a bottle and see how they feel. In those horrible rooms you start to feel that you have actually committed a crime for choosing to breastfeed, then when you see the contentment of my child I know I am, certainly doing nothing 'wrong' at all.
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