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[Khourtniey]

Wow.. Im going to start telling these people they need to go in the bathroom to bottle feed their baby that its makes me sick to look at a bottle. Wonder how they would react to that.

I guess this woman plans on taking her child home everytime it wants to eat?? She cant be serious.

I dont have an account so I cant comment there.

[Ziggysmama]

And the Puritans breastfed!

And the Puritans breastfed IN CHURCH!

[frogautumn]

I wasn't going to post a comment, because I felt I couldn't be bothered registering on the site (and probably get spammed with all sorts of stuff I don't want), but I couldn't resist.

[Sugermama]

What I find funny about this is that it is 100% legal for WOMEN to GO topless breast feeding or not in NYC.

I liked the couple that said people need to get over it. I also thought it was funny that the woman with the French man was like no I am not going to do it mean while he was like its all good people need to get over it (paraphrasing) and she was giving him crazy eyes. Hopefully she is married to him and he can help her see it is ok.

[aurora_skys]

"I have my own "scientific" theory that when these mothers go through the trauma of giving birth, spread-eagled, cameras rolling, with twenty people watching, they often become temporarily desensitized to the concept of "privacy." They become slightly crazy, like nudists."

wow, thats really offensive.. so women who have children (and nudists for that matter) are crazy for being comfortable in their own skin? she makes post partum females sound like animals.. i hope this woman never has children, i'd hate to see how she raises them.

perhaps she should look up the words "scientific" and "theory" and educate herself a little... because shes just spouting ignorant bs. Now thats what i'd like to see, a penn and teller bullsh*t episode about nursing in public! Bet theyd be all for it.

[Sugermama]

So I responded not once but twice due to someones response to mine:

my first response:

I wanted to let you know that in NYC it is 100% legal for both woman and men to go topless breastfeeding or not.

I have been breast feeding for over 2 years now and using a cover on a young child birth to about 3 months is very easy, using a cover on an older child can be next to impossible. Not all babies like having their heads completely covered. Nursing covers while a very handy tool for mothers that are nervous or just learning also are not unlike a huge neon sign that screams LOOK AT ME I AM NURSING. They draw more attention then if you just sat down and nursed your baby.

I prefer the double shirt method of a nursing tank underneath a regular top. Lift the bottom of the regular top up and unclasp the nursing tank. My stomach is covered and the kiddo can nurse.

Nursing a child is not the same thing as having sex or using the restroom. It is a child eating it is the biological norm for our species. It is JUST a breast, it has a function and breast feeding is one of those functions. I find it very disturbing that we can be ok with the amount of skin shown in Vouge, on TV, in movies yet a mother feeding a child is wrong and must be kept private. Where are our nations priorities? If you google you can find MANY b&w photos of mothers breast feeding in public in time periods where women had much less freedom then they do today. So if it was ok for a woman to breastfeed in public in the 1930's (and further back then that) why in the year 2008 is it wrong?

Response to mine:
By bethelknee on July 15, 2008 11:26 AM (I didn't post it because I think it is against UA not sure but that is the time stamp so you can find it on your own.)

My response to that response:

Simple solution if a mother is breastfeeding and you notice she is doing so then don't look at her look at the person you are with and continue to go about your day/evening. Why be all up in what someone else is doing at their table anyway?

I am not a cow I don't need a barn to feed my child, I am not going to sit on a toilet or on the floor in the bathroom as restaurants such as Applebee's do not have nursing lounges. If it offends you take YOUR meal and go eat IT on the toilet. Why would I pump my milk into a bottle that my child will then refuse to eat from because A. I am right there he wants the stuff straight from the source, B. he has always refused anything but water when it was in a bottle. So why am I going to cause him a child to get upset because an adult can't handle a mother feeding her child? Sorry not going to happen.

Again how am I going to cover said child's head when he doe not like his head covered? I am likely to actually flash you if I try to cover his head because he will be more worried about getting the blanket/cover off his head then staying latched on.

SEX and breastfeeding are not on the same level at all. There is nothing sexual about breastfeeding a child NOTHING. It is a western thought process that boob always = sex. That again is not MY problem. If the freaking VATICAN wants to show Mary's breast while breastfeeding Jesus in art (google it) in CATHOLIC (ie: a more prudish religion) art then surely it can not be all that offensive.

Last but not least you can not even see anything when I nurse my son NADA not skin at all because of my nursing tank under a regular top and his head covers my nipple. Even if you COULD see some skin why are you staring so hard at my feeding my child? Why are you LOOKING to find something offensive in the feeding of my child?

My priorities are just fine, i wish more Americans could get their's in line and see that it is a normal healthy thing to do. Not something to be hidden away and done in secret as if it is a dirty shameful task.

(I am using me, my, and mine but I mean it in a general sense. I could be any woman any where breast feeding her child)

That barn comment really pissed me off I wish I had added that a cow is not milked in a barn out of modesty for the freaking cow. Rather it is more convenient for the farmer and his milk production to milk the cows in the barn.

[menomena]

the trauma of giving birth, spread-eagled, cameras rolling, with twenty people watching, they often become temporarily desensitized to the concept of "privacy."

raise your hand if this applies to you. *looks around* yeah, thought not.

my first birth, in the hospital, was attended by a midwife, a nurse, and my husband. I was in a sitting/squat position. There were no cameras rolling.

my second birth, in my living room, was attended by a midwife, an apprentice and my husband. I was squatting in a pool. there were no cameras rolling (though now i wish i had at least some snapshots. oh well.)

these people clearly have no concept of what goes on in birth and/or breastfeeding outside of what they see in the media or the stories they hear...