[Marie]

Whatever happened to breast feeding Moms descreetly covering their feeding child with a baby blanket?

When I had my daughter I was 21. When I had my son I was 23. Whenever I nursed my babies, I covered myself and their heads and did everything I could think of to be discrete.

Now I'm 35. If I were to have another baby now... Well, let's just say that, at this age, I don't see the point of suffocating my child so somebody else doesn't feel weird. As I've "matured" I just can't quite bring myself to care quite as much what other people think of me.

Maybe that's why God's stopped giving me children.

He was afraid for the lifeguards.

[newzjunkey]

As I've "matured" I just can't quite bring myself to care quite as much what other people think of me.

As you've devolved with the coarsening of society, you don't care about silly things like decorum and civility. Everyone else be damned! You've aged, not matured, mam.

Are you sure you're on the right website? Maybe you'd be better off here?

[Nam Vet]

Agree with the attitude and your tagline. Actually, I was taught that breastfeeding was natural and that it was proper just not to stare or to direct your attention to the breast area. Hell, when a baby is feeding the nipple is totally gone! It's just fine to carry on a conversation with mom, but eye contact is the proper manner in which to do so. Most of the idiots that complain seem to look at nothing but the exposed area of the breast. Face it everyone, with today's clothes more breast is exposed than a breastfeeding mother does.

Nam Vet

[Nam Vet]

Just adding one of my side comments comparing now with my younger years. There is more complaining now about breast feeding in public than I ever heard in the late 60s about super mini-skirts. Heck, in Australia 1/4 to 1/3 of the girls didn't even wear panties under them! When I got back to the states, I discovered the American girls had a little more decorum but were adventurous

Nam Vet

[ahayes]

Your post reminds me of something. My mother told me once she was nursing my baby sister in a restaurant with a blanket over her shoulder. I had probably just turned four and took it into my head to go find the baby. I ended up pulling the blanket off and exclaiming, "Oh, there she is!"