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agirl -> RE: Breastfeeding In Court? (11/15/2011 2:49:46 PM)
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ORIGINAL: LafayetteLady
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ORIGINAL: BBBTBW
I breastfed my daughter in the park, on the bus and in many public places. This was 26 years ago. I discretely covered her and myself up with a blanket and she ate to her hearts content. I have no problem with anyone breastfeeding their children in public. It is a normal, natural thing. Sure show a little decorum about yourself and put a lite blanket over you and your child but those of you that are offended...get over yourselves.
So did you breast feed your child in church?
Your choice (and like it or not, breastfeeding IS a choice) to breastfeed your child DOES NOT supercede someone else's right in public places.
By the way, some people breast feed their children way into and past toddlerhood. If she was breast feeding a five year old, would you have the same opinion?
Explain to me why people who don't want to see it need to get over themselves? Being nude is also quite natural, yet, no one seems to dispute that one shouldn't be nude anywhere they want.
The idea that being a mother who breast feeds her child somehow supercedes someone else's right to not be subjected to it is ridiculous. Being a mother is not some great achievment, nearly any female can do it.
Yes, I have a child (grown now). I was a single mother to boot, whose family had all perished or did not live nearby during my son's childhood, so I know all about childcare issues.
Just because you have a child doesn't give you (or me) the right to force other people to accept whatever you want to do. Typically the same people who are so "I will breastfeed where ever and when ever I choose," are the same people who will take a condescending attitude towards those who don't breastfeed, with complete disregard as to the possibilities that breastfeeding may have not been an option for them.
That's an assumption that is unfairly held.
Finding breastfeeding normal, rather boring and of no great drama doesn't mean that there's any condescention toward women that either can't or don't wish to.
Why would it matter? Both women have chosen the best route for themselves.
My only curiousity really only is in why it seems such a drama for those that find it inappropriate in *places*. As I said, in my culture it's nothing of any note or interest......other than rather encouraging nods, if noticed.
I'm trying to imagine something, ANYTHING about breastfeeding that is inappropriate, and I can't.
It's the most quiet act there is going. I find your comment * being subjected to it* one of the most silliest in a long time.
( I do actually dispute that people shouldn't be nude wherever they want but that's another issue altogether)
And 'though you didn't ask me, yes, I breast fed in church and pretty much anywhere and everywhere.....as and when the need arose.
As I have already mentioned........ in the UK, you'd look and be treated as an utter arse if you made an unnecessary fuss over quiet, discreet and natural behaviour.
agirl
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