Okay, I had to write in, and I'll have to admit that I used homemademama's 20x daily nursing figure as my nursing "baby" is long since weaned. I have written very civil, controlled responses to other stuff in the past, but I sort of let this lady have it. Chalk me up as a boob nazi.
I also didn't put any "But I know some people have to FF" qualifiers at the end either...I get kinda tired of that too. I know it's true, but I'm writing something to defend nursing, and there's a lot of people who use that as a cop out. So no offense intended to anyone BFAR, or with glandular insuff., or adopters.
As a nursing mother, I get absolutely sick to death of hearing the archaic, idiotic opinion that nursing should only be done in private, or while covered up with a blanket. Give me a break. THAT’S WHAT THOSE BAGS OF FAT ON YOUR CHEST ARE FOR, LADY!!!!!They aren’t just for grown up men to squeeze, or for selling cars, or beer, or for promoting sporting events. We’re mammals, you see, and supposedly smarter than all those other mammals. Well, some of us, anyway.
You’re likely to see lot more boob on the cover of a women’s magazine in the Kroger checkout, or amongst a herd of teenage girls at the mall than you will from a nursing mother. I have nursed literally thousands of times, and lots of those times that my baby needed to eat I happened to be in public. It isn’t as though mother and baby share this magical, syrupy-sweet moment a few times a day, making it convenient to sit at home in our Happy Flower Kitty Land nursery and soak up the love. Breasts are meant to be utilitarian. Babies need to eat sometimes upwards of 20 times in a day, and I have things I need to do. Nursing makes it easy as my breasts are obviously portable, they never run out of milk, I never have to worry about warming anything, or whether or not a water source will be clean and readily available. Oh, and then there’s all those health benefits us crazy “militant” nursers are always cramming down everyone’s throats.
I have never needed to “whip it out” or “let it hang out” or “put it on display” as some ignoramuses have put it. I can even break it down for you: I unlatch the bra, get baby in position, lift my shirt just enough for baby to latch on, and voila – breast is now obscured by baby’s head. It has been my observation that most people aren’t really bothered by seeing a bit of flesh, they’re bothered by the sight of a baby attached to it – by the very idea of a baby’s mouth on a breast, as though it’s something unnatural. My baby’s need to eat NORMALLY supersedes your issues, and I won’t be the tiniest bit apologetic about it. I don’t know when you last attempted to eat under a blanket, but judging by babies’ reactions – it sucks. It is my opinion that discretion should include not staring at nursing mothers if you have hang-ups about breasts.
Breasts are indeed a part of human sexuality - but the last time I checked - so are hands and mouths, but I don’t hear anyone getting fired up over women not wearing gloves and surgical masks in public because they can’t separate their sexual functions from their practical functions. I shake people’s hands and kiss my parents, even!! (GASP) That’s me…a bucker of tradition.
I’m not a nazi, and I don’t have an agenda. I am a proud nursing mom, a mammal, a warm blooded human being with a sex drive, just like all the rest of us. But I will not, for one millisecond, give any credence to the bizzaro sex-crazed-yet-puritanical American notion that nursing is something dirty, or sexual, or private. It’s feeding a baby, the way humans are supposed to. It’s a real shame that so many moms are too intimidated to nurse *because* of this attitude – and the very idea of having to nurse in public is terrifying. So, some end up hiding in unsanitary public restrooms or other uncomfortable places to nurse, and many give up on nursing altogether – instead feeding their babies a powdered form of some other mammal’s breastmilk in a boob substitute. Now that’s unacceptable.
Shannon Lastname
Louisville, KY
I also didn't put any "But I know some people have to FF" qualifiers at the end either...I get kinda tired of that too. I know it's true, but I'm writing something to defend nursing, and there's a lot of people who use that as a cop out. So no offense intended to anyone BFAR, or with glandular insuff., or adopters.
As a nursing mother, I get absolutely sick to death of hearing the archaic, idiotic opinion that nursing should only be done in private, or while covered up with a blanket. Give me a break. THAT’S WHAT THOSE BAGS OF FAT ON YOUR CHEST ARE FOR, LADY!!!!!They aren’t just for grown up men to squeeze, or for selling cars, or beer, or for promoting sporting events. We’re mammals, you see, and supposedly smarter than all those other mammals. Well, some of us, anyway.
You’re likely to see lot more boob on the cover of a women’s magazine in the Kroger checkout, or amongst a herd of teenage girls at the mall than you will from a nursing mother. I have nursed literally thousands of times, and lots of those times that my baby needed to eat I happened to be in public. It isn’t as though mother and baby share this magical, syrupy-sweet moment a few times a day, making it convenient to sit at home in our Happy Flower Kitty Land nursery and soak up the love. Breasts are meant to be utilitarian. Babies need to eat sometimes upwards of 20 times in a day, and I have things I need to do. Nursing makes it easy as my breasts are obviously portable, they never run out of milk, I never have to worry about warming anything, or whether or not a water source will be clean and readily available. Oh, and then there’s all those health benefits us crazy “militant” nursers are always cramming down everyone’s throats.
I have never needed to “whip it out” or “let it hang out” or “put it on display” as some ignoramuses have put it. I can even break it down for you: I unlatch the bra, get baby in position, lift my shirt just enough for baby to latch on, and voila – breast is now obscured by baby’s head. It has been my observation that most people aren’t really bothered by seeing a bit of flesh, they’re bothered by the sight of a baby attached to it – by the very idea of a baby’s mouth on a breast, as though it’s something unnatural. My baby’s need to eat NORMALLY supersedes your issues, and I won’t be the tiniest bit apologetic about it. I don’t know when you last attempted to eat under a blanket, but judging by babies’ reactions – it sucks. It is my opinion that discretion should include not staring at nursing mothers if you have hang-ups about breasts.
Breasts are indeed a part of human sexuality - but the last time I checked - so are hands and mouths, but I don’t hear anyone getting fired up over women not wearing gloves and surgical masks in public because they can’t separate their sexual functions from their practical functions. I shake people’s hands and kiss my parents, even!! (GASP) That’s me…a bucker of tradition.
I’m not a nazi, and I don’t have an agenda. I am a proud nursing mom, a mammal, a warm blooded human being with a sex drive, just like all the rest of us. But I will not, for one millisecond, give any credence to the bizzaro sex-crazed-yet-puritanical American notion that nursing is something dirty, or sexual, or private. It’s feeding a baby, the way humans are supposed to. It’s a real shame that so many moms are too intimidated to nurse *because* of this attitude – and the very idea of having to nurse in public is terrifying. So, some end up hiding in unsanitary public restrooms or other uncomfortable places to nurse, and many give up on nursing altogether – instead feeding their babies a powdered form of some other mammal’s breastmilk in a boob substitute. Now that’s unacceptable.
Shannon Lastname
Louisville, KY
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) Someone please let us know if they print any of them... 
J/K.
