Hi everyone - new here! I think I just found an online home, especially when it comes to speaking up for my son's right to eat when and where we FEEL like it! Yeah -- happy to meet you all.
I just had a baby 25 days ago. He's my fourth babe, and my fourth breast fed babe at that. Excuse typing errors please - we are nursing right now.
The other night I told DH in a moment of sheer bliss "I LOVE BREASTFEEDING!!" To which he replied "good thing, you are doing it all the time!" LOL 
So as you can gather by my title I am just waiting for someone to say something about my NIP. After four kids and 8+ years nursing experience I have had my share with people commenting -- mostly with my first. By month two or three with DD#1 I was nursing when and where I felt like it with no desire to be extra discreet. I had learned about the CA law stating I could feed without anyone telling me to hide it.
Problem? Nobody gives me a hard time! Now a disclaimer: I am finding that when I have a baby latched on my moods are terribly intense. So I think this whole NIP-dare someone to say something-attitude may be a bit influenced by the hormones flooding my lactating system.
So the other day I am in El Pollo Loco with all four kids. There is a group of about 14 people eating together across from us. My Dash starts to waah waah to eat so I proceed to latch at the table while serving everyone else. He's in a pouch sling, but due to the positioning some breast is exposed. I am being as discreet as possible but not overtly so. Anyway this lady (probably late 40's early 50's) in the 14 group is watching me closely with little emotion on her face, but keeps staring. I am thinking "bring IT ON! I dare YOU!" I was trying to eat my own food, you know those starving moments -- and she finally catches my eye to engage conversation (bring it on!!). And what does she say? "Isn't it something how they always want to eat when you do?"
"My dd never failed if I was eating she did too!"
"Yeah they want to eat if they even sense I am thinking of eating!"
As I dished up some humble pie...
Then -- and get this -- the 70yo lady across from her says "you nursed your children?" and they get into a huge breastfeeding discussion! The 70yo is saying she wished she had nursed and asked all about it! So here is some crazy pro-breastfeeding discussion brought on by me and the baby...and here I thought it would be a confrontation. So like the squelching her inner-lactivist poster, I too had a lesson in enjoying people for WHO they are. I really thought I might get a chance to spout off my rights to feed my baby where and when I felt like it, and instead -- at least one person got a lesson in the benefits of breastfeeding. LOL Go figure. And I am so much happier it was pleasant.
I do want a chance to say "make ME go in a bathroom" at one point, for all those dogged nursing mom's out there, yet keep ending up with people wanting to know more about it. Even a teenage boy in the Salvation Army where I was buying wool sweaters to turn into diaper covers got into a NURSING discussion with me!! He says "Doesn't it hurt?" What holding ten wools sweaters while nursing? Yes it does! "Uhm no, that's not it, uhm nevermind." Oh BREASTFEEDING!?! "Uhm yeah, well the women I know say it hurts too much, but it's not like I know a lot of people with babies." It only hurts for a short time and then it's over, and completely worth it (wait, stop the presses, I am discussing BF'ing with a teenage boy....LOL). Then I realize what I SAY can completely influence him as a DAD, so I keep promoting. And I still have nobody to fight!
I know it's all good. I do know it's FANTASTIC actually. I feel so good about people asking me about it, wanting to know more (I feel the same when talking to nurses and doctors about my awesome home births) that I talk longer and more in-depth than I do on anything else.
But won't someone please tell me to go into a bathroom or leave their restaurant?? LOL
Well glad to meet you all!
I just had a baby 25 days ago. He's my fourth babe, and my fourth breast fed babe at that. Excuse typing errors please - we are nursing right now.
The other night I told DH in a moment of sheer bliss "I LOVE BREASTFEEDING!!" To which he replied "good thing, you are doing it all the time!" LOL So as you can gather by my title I am just waiting for someone to say something about my NIP. After four kids and 8+ years nursing experience I have had my share with people commenting -- mostly with my first. By month two or three with DD#1 I was nursing when and where I felt like it with no desire to be extra discreet. I had learned about the CA law stating I could feed without anyone telling me to hide it.
Problem? Nobody gives me a hard time! Now a disclaimer: I am finding that when I have a baby latched on my moods are terribly intense. So I think this whole NIP-dare someone to say something-attitude may be a bit influenced by the hormones flooding my lactating system.
So the other day I am in El Pollo Loco with all four kids. There is a group of about 14 people eating together across from us. My Dash starts to waah waah to eat so I proceed to latch at the table while serving everyone else. He's in a pouch sling, but due to the positioning some breast is exposed. I am being as discreet as possible but not overtly so. Anyway this lady (probably late 40's early 50's) in the 14 group is watching me closely with little emotion on her face, but keeps staring. I am thinking "bring IT ON! I dare YOU!" I was trying to eat my own food, you know those starving moments -- and she finally catches my eye to engage conversation (bring it on!!). And what does she say? "Isn't it something how they always want to eat when you do?"
"My dd never failed if I was eating she did too!""Yeah they want to eat if they even sense I am thinking of eating!"
As I dished up some humble pie...
Then -- and get this -- the 70yo lady across from her says "you nursed your children?" and they get into a huge breastfeeding discussion! The 70yo is saying she wished she had nursed and asked all about it! So here is some crazy pro-breastfeeding discussion brought on by me and the baby...and here I thought it would be a confrontation. So like the squelching her inner-lactivist poster, I too had a lesson in enjoying people for WHO they are. I really thought I might get a chance to spout off my rights to feed my baby where and when I felt like it, and instead -- at least one person got a lesson in the benefits of breastfeeding. LOL Go figure. And I am so much happier it was pleasant.
I do want a chance to say "make ME go in a bathroom" at one point, for all those dogged nursing mom's out there, yet keep ending up with people wanting to know more about it. Even a teenage boy in the Salvation Army where I was buying wool sweaters to turn into diaper covers got into a NURSING discussion with me!! He says "Doesn't it hurt?" What holding ten wools sweaters while nursing? Yes it does! "Uhm no, that's not it, uhm nevermind." Oh BREASTFEEDING!?! "Uhm yeah, well the women I know say it hurts too much, but it's not like I know a lot of people with babies." It only hurts for a short time and then it's over, and completely worth it (wait, stop the presses, I am discussing BF'ing with a teenage boy....LOL). Then I realize what I SAY can completely influence him as a DAD, so I keep promoting. And I still have nobody to fight!
I know it's all good. I do know it's FANTASTIC actually. I feel so good about people asking me about it, wanting to know more (I feel the same when talking to nurses and doctors about my awesome home births) that I talk longer and more in-depth than I do on anything else.
But won't someone please tell me to go into a bathroom or leave their restaurant?? LOL
Well glad to meet you all!
