Horrible NIP idea... again

[velcromom]

I don't know if this is the same woman that submitted her idea to last year's MSN contest, but it's come up again - an invention designed to make nursing in a bathroom stall more comfortable.

She has a survey page that you can go to, asking some general questions about NIP. There is a comments section at the bottom.

http://www.macoservices.com/surveys/...dingSurvey.htm


Please, mamas - "comment" this idea away!!!


I appreciate her thought but I think it could be much better directed at helping moms be comfortable nursing in public, not in hiding.

[Trishy]

done. Is there a page explaining her bright idea?

[TiredX2]

Yeah, do you have a link with the "invention" again?

I also submitted (but I notice you don't get any results)

[hallesmom]

I took the survey and told her that it was gross to BF in the bathroom! ick! I added a few other things too!

[velcromom]

No info page, pm me if you would like to see where I found it. Just don't wanna break any rules, ya know!

[MsMoMpls]

I have had to pump in a restroom- but I would never nurse there!!! Gross!! And I said so.

[Red Sonja]

I took the survey too, and commented that it was disgusting to have to nurse in a restroom, that if people don't like seeing a nursing mother then just don't look!

[Ruthla]

I also said I've pumped but never nursed in a restroom, and never had a need for someplace "private" to nurse.

I also suggested products they could sell if they really wanted to support bf (nursing clothes and bras, slings, diaper bags designed to hold a sports bottle for mom.)

[Meiri]

Think they'll get my message?

We grown-ups do not take our meals in the bathroom as that is gross, unsanitary, and uncivilized. In our family, we have the same standards for our babies. Until such time as I see restrooms being subjected to the same sanitation standards as restaurant kitchens AND meals being served to the paying customers in there, I will not even consider thinking about doing something so skanky and gross as making a baby or child of mine eat in a bathroom.

While it's now a truly rare event for DD to NIP, we did so everywhere we went from birth until she stopped asking.

[medaroge]

Thanks for giving us the opportunity to voice our opinions on this! Here is what I wrote:

I just found this survey online and sincerly hope that this research is not on anyting to encourage breastfeeding in a restroom because that is so disgusting I dont even want to think about it! I nurse my child wherever whenever he needs to, the law allows me to and besides, there is nothing shameful, wrong or strange about nursing a child in public. I don't even want to use public restrooms myself so why would I ever feed a child in one? Would you take your McDonalds hamburger in there to eat for some privacy? NO WAY, because that is so gross. For that same reason I will never feed my child in a restroom, breastmilk or otherwise!

[mamajama]

It was fun to fill in the survey!
Their motto is something like "making life easier". On that note I wrote:
If you truly want to make life easier for mothers and their babies, it would be far more benificial to aid in promoting, and encouraging public breastfeeding as opposed to making women feel that it is something that needs to be hidden away. (Especially in a place as disgusting and feces-filled as a public restroom). The word "rest" in restroom is just a formality. Those rooms are not really intended for resting in. (Or, for that matter, eating in either).

[scrapadoozer]

Done! How in the heck can they make it sanitary to bf in a bathroom anyway?

[JodiL]

Ew. I don't wany any "invention" that makes nursing and/or pumping in a bathroom any easier.

[Star]

Crappy, the link doesn't work for me.

[Mama2ABCD]

i filled out the survey too. and i also commented that nursing in a restroom was disgusting and that my whole family shouldn't have to sit in there while i nurse. i don't want to imagine what my boys would get into!

[LittleLime]

i took the survey and can't even imagine what this great invention even is! is there a link to it? i'm on the edge of my public toilet seat ;-)

[~Nikki~]

My comment was something along the lines of - The breastfeeding relationship is already perfect. Why introduce some piece of garbage to overcomplicate the process, and make mothers feel that they should be ashamed to nourish their children whenever, and wherever they are hungry?

[Ellien C]

Here's what I wrote:

While I applaud your efforts to encourage breastfeeding, I think you do nursing mothers and children a disservice by suggesting it needs to be done in the bathroom. Too many people have come to view breastfeeding as disgusting or shameful due to the oversexualization of breasts in particular and women in general. By making it easier to breastfeed in the bathroom you are promoting that stereotype. We need the general public to know what most nursing mothers already do. Breastfeeding is natural, normal and nothing to be ashamed of. There is no reason any mother needs to hide her nursing. Let's bring it out of the closet instead of stuffing it into the bathroom

[Ahimsa]

I submitted a survey also pointing out that breastfeeding in a bathroom is appalling.

[brookerenee]

I wrote:

I would be highly uncomfortable nursing my daughter in a public restroom. I feel that public restrooms are unsanitary and are not acceptable places for serving or eating food. The excretion of breastmilk is not a comparable act to the excretion of urine or feces.

I am appalled by the idea of product that makes nursing in the bathroom easier or more sanitary. Breastfeeding is natural and shameless and does not need to be hidden away.