I was at a high school football game with my son, 10mo, on Friday. He was not very well rested, and the stimulation was starting to bother him, so I popped out my breast and let him nurse. In typical 10mo fashion, he would nurse for a bit, then look around for a bit, then nurse again. I had my hand on my breast, so I wasn't hanging free for all to see, but I wasn't crazy about playing peek-a-boo with my nipple every time he popped off.
Wouldn't you know that someone's mother came up behind me and said, "You really need to cover up better. There are teenagers here, and...you need to be more covered." I was shocked. Not angry, really, just surprised. I live in a crazy hippy area of the country and have never, not once, been asked to cover up more. And I was amused. I said, "Oh, okay," and she went away. Then I laughed a bit.
My mother told me that the woman in question was a mother of two of the band kids (her kids are also in the band, which is why I was at the game to watch them march), both of whom are girls.
I just thought it was funny that teenagers were being used as the reason I should stop nursing (or, I guess, throw a blanket over my son's head). I've heard all kinds of excuses used for other people, but never teenagers. My husband said, "the ones who are interested in women's breasts will go home and [masturbate] to the Sears catalog anyways, and everyone else won't care!" And now I make jokes about checking for teenagers before I start to nurse.
Wouldn't you know that someone's mother came up behind me and said, "You really need to cover up better. There are teenagers here, and...you need to be more covered." I was shocked. Not angry, really, just surprised. I live in a crazy hippy area of the country and have never, not once, been asked to cover up more. And I was amused. I said, "Oh, okay," and she went away. Then I laughed a bit.
My mother told me that the woman in question was a mother of two of the band kids (her kids are also in the band, which is why I was at the game to watch them march), both of whom are girls.
I just thought it was funny that teenagers were being used as the reason I should stop nursing (or, I guess, throw a blanket over my son's head). I've heard all kinds of excuses used for other people, but never teenagers. My husband said, "the ones who are interested in women's breasts will go home and [masturbate] to the Sears catalog anyways, and everyone else won't care!" And now I make jokes about checking for teenagers before I start to nurse.
the purpose of this thread is breastfeeding advocacy, not cutting people down or putting them in their place.
