People really are stupid

[lalicopa]

...and another thing...in the last week, people have said such stupid things to me about breastfeeding.

One woman I know from the park just had her third child. I asked her if she's nursing. She said, "No. I give them life, then it's up to them."

A father of a new baby was at the park with his older daughter. I asked him how the new baby is. He said, "He's great, but he's got acid reflux and he's not a great sleeper." I asked if his wife was breastfeeding. He said, "Oh, no."

I got my hair cut this afternoon and my haircutter (for 20 years almost) knows that I breastfeed. She told me that she recently visited Hershey Park and that there is now a kosher section there for eating. She said that there was a religious woman "right there in the open" breastfeeding. "Why couldn't she cover up or turn around or move to the back of the group?" I told her that she was asking the wrong person because I have very strong feelings about breastfeeding. Then she went on to say how she knows it's best and healthiest for the baby, "I just don't need to see it."

Can you believe this shit? It's one of the few things I despise about where I live. NOBODY breastfeeds. Not even 10 percent. It's appalling.

I hope miss Lily nurses til she's 3.

In public.

:-)

Comments

[sarajoyo.livejournal.com]

Oy. I totally kwym about the area though; ours is the same way. It's almost entirely babies with bottles propped in their mouths. Drives me nuts, but people like you and I are needed!