Posted on 01/04/2007 1:25:25 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Don't you understand? You schedule those things to accommodate the schedule of your baby so that you never have to breastfeed outside your home or you are just being selfish.
i am too exhausted from the other thread to engage you in your boobery fixation! ; )
Okay, just DAMN.
That must be what I did wrong. LOL
Honestly, I used a Snuggli go carry the babies around and with that and a receiving blanket, they could sleep and nurse and we just were on the go.
I don't ever remember having to make a statement about what was going on. OR having anything exposed.
Thanks for keeping us abreast of the situation.
Why should a very small minority of the population have special protection to make everyone else feel uncomfortable?
Absolutely. Never mind WHAT it is absolutely, but as a hint, my garden could use a truck load of it.
IF this were true, why do they flaunt it, then become offended at even a suggestion that a nursing blanket or other such measure be used?
Why does such a suggestion result in "nurse-ins" by aggressively indiscrete activist nursing women?
Those are not based on any local incidents, but rather on "the overall stories of women who invades restaurants to be as obnoxious as possible."
Then why are they trying to make it a political thing by getting laws passed?
"When you breast-feed it's an intimate moment between you and your child," Bayrd said. "No one is nursing so they can have additional public nudity."
That'll end real soon. Soon's the law's passed, some militant is going to about strip down and dare someone to make an issue about it.
Why should anyone feel their right to not feel uncomfortable should allow them to pass restrictions on what other people do?
What's wrong with nursing them in the car (or more likely the van) in between stops while running errands. It's quiet, comfortable, roomier and cleaner than any public place, and often has tinted windows so there shouldn't be any issues with seeing anything. It was far more relaxing for me. You can lay the baby on the seat to change it and make sure everything is all packed up before going on.
"Does the sight of a woman breastfeeding really ruin your appetite?"
My post was more of a response to the "intimate" logic that the woman quoted was using. I would think the intimacy factor would be an agrguement against public breast feeding.
I will admit though that having others' "intimate momments" thrust upon me in public makes me uncomfortable. "Offended" would be a stretch. A couple making out at the next table won't likely ruin my appetite either but I don't think it's appropriate for public.
Personally, I think that discretion is the order of the day. I'm not trying to deny anyone but there's no need to select a table in the middle of the restaurant, or what have you, to do the breast feeding. I'm not even saying keep it at home, just keep others in mind.
"One in which anyone spotting a woman breast-feeding in public has the authority to go up to her and berate her, call her names, order her to go somewhere out of sight, or threaten her with charges of 'public nudity."
Good point, but that's not at all what has happened in this case. This is definitely an 'agenda-driven' law in this socialist town/county.
I'd agree with you if I read a story every day about anyone saying "Boo!" to a breast-feeding woman in public. (And again, stores and restaurants are privately owned businesses, not public property. Need to nurse? Sit on the steps of the Capitol or your local Library...see how far that gets ya, LOL!)
Last story I read on the subject was a bunch of 'Nipple Nazis' congregating at a 'Victoria's Secret' store DEMANDING they be given a place to nurse in the store!
People just have no common sense anymore, you know? You buy things at Victoria's to lure some poor sap into getting you pregnant in the first place, LOL!
"Why should a very small minority of the population have special protection to make everyone else feel uncomfortable?"
Paging ANY Democrat or Social Engineering Special Interest Group! Please pick up the white Courtesy Phone in the Lobby!
You nailed it. :)
That's not the subject of this thread.
Nothing wrong with that! But it could be tricky - I drive a Chevy Cavelier, it'd be impossible to breastfeed in that, if I had a baby. My mom used to do that but there were occasions where the best choice was breastfeeding "in public". During church services, or while the family was at a fast food joint, or at an amusement park. Nobody ever told her to stop or had a problem with it.
Of course, that was because they were too offended by her seven children being out in public during school hours.
Actually, I feel uncomfortable...and could care less whether some lactivist or fellow traveler thinks I 'need' to.
It's either appropriate public behavior, or not...my working definition of appropriate public behavior is behavior that you wouldn't mind seeing on the front page of the paper.
If she feels uncomfortable having her picture taken, she shouldn't be doing it in public.
Can we frame this?
Why stop here? Why not allow mothers to change the babies diapers in public too? Why should they hide away when they change a crappy diaper? It's healthy to keep a fresh diaper on the baby and we all have bowel movements, so why should Moms have to hide in a room somewhere to change the diaper?
Is that coming next?
Twin spin! Twin spin!
Twin spin! Twin spin!
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