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post #61 of 72
6/25/05 at 6:10pm
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I don't remember exactly how old ds was when he started demanding "da big nuhsie!" That meant total exposure. No thanks! He was also a very active nurser. He preferred to stand on my lap. He was probably 19, 20 months when we stopped NIP.
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:LOL That cracks me up!!!! My son is the same way, he wants both breasts out, and wants to tweak the one not in use... actually, sometimes he gets mad when we are nursing and I'm not fully exposed. Oh well, we do it anyways. He seems to be sarting to understand that I need a little cover when we're in public.

PP, who was asked to not bf at the Y, I'm sorry. I hate that. I've been talked to a few times. I think I might be a little less modest than most. The one that upset me the most was my pastor was asked to talk to me. I decided to respect peoples wishes and only do it around the women, who don't care.

Which leads me to my question... do you guys use blankets/nursing clothes? I totally haven't until just recently (I got a few nursing shirts), out of respect for my parents and our living situation (long story). Sometimes I wonder if people would stare less if I attempted to cover up.
post #62 of 72
6/25/05 at 7:55pm
I rarely use nursing clothes and never cover up. I'm currently tandem nursing my 3 year old and (almost) 5 year old and am 28 weeks pregnant. I continue to NIP wherever and whenever my kids have the need. I do nurse in church, during worship if necessary. I nursed my first three kids (who were triandem nursing at the time) in front of my Pastor during my dd's pre-baptism meeting. Pastor didn't even bat an eyelash. I did get a phone call from him about nursing last year - a member of the congregation apparently has a problem with it, so he had to call just to say he talked to me about it. I put his mind at ease that it's against the law in the state of CT to ask me not to nurse (a fine and/or jail time!), so it's out of his control. He thanked me and was very much relieved!!! He told me to do whatever I felt I needed to do.

Please check the breastfeeding laws in your state - so many mamas get asked not to nurse their children or to go to a bathroom : to nurse their children, and many of these moms have a LEGAL RIGHT to nurse wherever they're lawfully allowed to be.

IMHO, women shouldn't cover up while nursing for the sake of other people. Nursing is NORMAL and NATURAL and people need to become accustomed to seeing it.
post #63 of 72
6/26/05 at 2:59pm
I can't remember the last time we NIP.... Must've been when he was 2 or 3? He's just turned 5 & only asks at bedtime or when he's sick.
post #64 of 72
6/26/05 at 4:36pm
DD will be 16 months 1 week from tomorrow & we still NIP. I have no problem with it at all.
post #65 of 72
6/26/05 at 4:45pm
dd is 24 months, and she doesn't NIP anymore, because she only nurses at wake up, nap, and bedtime. i'm 23 weeks pregnant and don't have any milk left. a few months back when i still had any to offer, she would sometimes ask at playgroup when other kids were nursing. i would totally NIP if she was interested though. The last time ds NIP'd, he was almost 3.5, and it had been probably a year and a half since he had asked to nurse anywhere but home. we were in the middle of a huge earth day festival and it was really really hot, and he didn't want water, so we nursed. no big deal - there were lots freakier people to look at that day :LOL
post #66 of 72
6/26/05 at 5:11pm
With the warmer weather I try to make an effort to NIP whenever my 16 month old and I are out.

Sure we could wait til later.....but I would like to normalize nursing in peoples minds a little. I am not the typical "mom" looking type either...so I am just trying a little lactivism to show that many types of people take good care of their babies.
post #67 of 72
6/26/05 at 5:27pm
i just nursed my 25 mo in public today.
post #68 of 72
6/27/05 at 12:05am
My 2 y.o used to say bee-bee for nuring but after hearing her slightly older (and thus much cooler) cousin say nurse, she's now switched to "nuhsie". but she only nurses once in the middle of the night. I wish she would nurse in public! I so want to be a crazy lactivist! I want the comments and the requests for covering up! But I learned ya can't force a toddler onto the boob in the food court at the mall!
post #69 of 72
6/27/05 at 12:16am
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Originally Posted by LotusBirthMama
My 2 y.o used to say bee-bee for nuring but after hearing her slightly older (and thus much cooler) cousin say nurse, she's now switched to "nuhsie". but she only nurses once in the middle of the night. I wish she would nurse in public! I so want to be a crazy lactivist! I want the comments and the requests for covering up! But I learned ya can't force a toddler onto the boob in the food court at the mall!

I'm one of those "crazy lactivists" and I do love it although, I ve never had requests to cover up or comments to speak of, just the shocked looks its hilarious how some people are SO shocked by it :LOL

hope you get to experience it sometime


blessings~~
post #70 of 72
6/27/05 at 12:20am
I nurse my 13 month old whenever and wherever she wants. I did just today at a birthday party for my friend's daughter. Got some wierd looks, but hey, nothing was showing, so they can just deal.
post #71 of 72
6/27/05 at 11:31am
I do, and Jhonen is 13 mo. I discussed this with DH a few weeks ago to see what his "line in the sand" regarding NIP is. He blew my mind when he said "I see nothing wrong with NIP until about age 5".
After I got over my shock at how NIP-supportive he really is, I confessed that my personal thought was 5 yrs old too. I have a cool DH!
post #72 of 72
6/27/05 at 2:09pm
All the time. He's only 16 mths though, I'll NIP as long as he needs me to though.
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