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...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.

:-)

Date: 2005-09-04 07:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] oscarmama.livejournal.com
Oscarwoozle nursed in public today, at a sandwich shop/ bookstore during lunch. He'll be three on October 20th. I have gotten exactly two dirty looks in the past three years, but I am also oblivious.

I have been nursing in front of a lot of 18-22 year olds at a local coffee shop for years -- they've watched Oscar grow up -- and now one of them is pregnant and is asking me and my mom lots of questions about breastfeeding and slings. Yay outreach!

Date: 2005-09-04 01:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mybonnykate.livejournal.com
You ROCK! That is exactly the kind of positive influence we all are having -- it's not the women who have already had kids and made the decisions, it's the teens and young twentysomethings who will enter into their pregnancies with a normalized attitude about breastfeeding, being familiar with it, recognizing it as a part of the background of babyhood. I think that this coming generation of moms is going to be really nursing-friendly.

Date: 2005-09-04 10:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] oscarmama.livejournal.com
I hope so. My mom nursed us, and says progress feels *painfully* slow to her... but all her daughters so far have nursed. We can hope!

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