Posted on 06/12/2007 10:02:27 PM PDT by Stoat
the last of my five is now 6 months and so all this will be strictly as an observer
I really love everything to do with pregnancy and birth....I will miss that being a part of my life as it has been for almost 20 years now.
I find myself very empathetic and appreciatve of pregnant women and moms with babies...
I believe some of the best my wife ever looked was at 5-7 months along and then nursing later...it’s not just a cliche about that glow and all that...they it may just be fullness and all that extra blood exaggerating lips and giving that healthy Raphaelite aura...it’s also about how God creates life thru us and I love it..
not in an exploitative way, it was just so encouraging maybe....life coming along and then brand new being nurtured....it’s times like that and folks like me know why I am here
which btw....means I better wake and feed number 5 unless now unless I want him waking at 4-5 hongree!...I’m the night owl around here this last time outta the gate
Apparently, the state of Florida led the charge on this in the United States:
SUMMARY OF ENACTED BREASTFEEDING LEGISLATION
FLORIDA
Florida led the nation by enacting the first comprehensive breastfeeding legislation in the United States. The legislation not only exempted breastfeeding from criminal statutes, but created a new law that stated this important and basic act of nurture must be encouraged in the interests of maternal and child health. Finally, it provides for a breast-feeding encouragement policy for facilities providing maternity services and newborn infant care.
Fla. Stat. Ann. § 383.015
1993 Fl. ALS 4; 1993 Fla. Laws ch. 4; 1993 Fla. HB 231The breast feeding of a baby is an important and basic act of nurture which must be encouraged in the interests of maternal and child health and family values. A mother may breast feed her baby in any location, public or private, where the mother is otherwise authorized to be, irrespective of whether or not the nipple of the mother's breast is covered during or incidental to the breast feeding.
‘When that starts happening, I think that we should stop ALL immigration to the USA except for non-Muslims from Great Britain, so that they might have an opportunity to escape what has become a seething cauldron of total insanity.’
Errr, whilst us Brits appreciate your generous offer, why would we want to move to a country with a helluva lot more muslims than we have, the ACLU, open borders and a dem govt? Our muslim immigration only amounts to 1.7m over 50 years and is declining rapidly - do you know how many muslims you have? How many wondered across the border last night? I know you guys like to read tabloid stories about how muslims run Britain, but it just ain’t so. After a century of immigration Britain is still 93% white anglo saxon celtic christian and our largest immigrant group in the past 5 years is Polish catholics. Rather than a seething cauldron of insanity as you put it, we are a conservative christian country with a low immigrant population and fairly secure borders. You only see the news report version of Britain, not the real thing.
Don’t think I am criticising the US - I have great admiration for your country, but I genuinely think you have bigger problems than we do in the area of immigration and the structure of your govt and constitution makes it harder for you to do anything about it.
Sorry Britmp, everyone on FR knows the truth.
Britain is like the last reel of “Dawn of the Dead”, with you, me and the other British FReepers living in a shopping mall desperately holding off the Zombies with our chainsaws.
That in itself would be interesting to see, a Muslim woman publicly breastfeeding.
How about singing the blues and cable TV?
‘Britain is like the last reel of Dawn of the Dead, with you, me and the other British FReepers living in a shopping mall desperately holding off the Zombies with our chainsaws.’
AG, I do hope you are not implying our erstwhile American cousins savour a less than accurate impression of Britain in order console themsleves about their own countries failings!
I must admit, I was amazed that this thread managed to get from breastfeeding to muslim in two posts! :)
You’d almost think us Brits have a bigger muslim problem than America does!
God bless you. That’s the only drawback of breastfeeding, being the only one on feeding duty.
that's true...my wife would only sleep in 2-3 hour spurts at night....now as an older dad for the last time and with the economic felxibility I'm blessed wtih, I'm very involved...and enjoy it actually
Actually, no I didn't "put it" that way. My post was in response to Aria's "Errr...how long until breastfeeding in public is changed because the Muslims might be offended and riot?"
The key phrase in my post was "When that starts happening"", which to most folks means that it hasn't happened. Therefore it should be apparent that since the situation has not happened, it does not reflect my perspective of things at the present time This was obviously a hyperbolic, tongue-in-cheek exchange and was not a reflection of anyone's actual perception of the current state of affairs in Great Britain. It's unfortunate that you've taken my words out of context and then used them as an excuse to engage in the tired old stereotyping of the ignorant Americans who know nothing of the world around them and believe everything that's in the Brit tabloids. Please don't be so eager to take offense when no disrespect was expressed or even remotely implied.
Please speak for yourself. Your statement of "us over here" includes neither me nor anyone I know.
Please speak for yourself. Your statement of "us over here" includes neither me nor anyone I know. Post #33)
Jesus, pal, read your own writing. (P.S. No reply is required).
I hope you guys understand that its hard for us over here to get accurate info and opinions about what is going on over there. Your FReeper brother and sister over here will be counting on you guys to let us know whats up.
You're entirely welcome to characterize yourself as being in need of anonymous internet posters to assist you in formulating your knowledge and opinion base, and in so doing contribute to the comic-book caricature that some Brits have of "us dumb, provincial Yanks" but I know no other Americans who "count on you guys" (internet posters) "to let us know what's up". Although I'm interested in what Brits (and everyone else) online has to say, I don't "find it hard to get accurate info" at all, because I have traveled extensively and have a multitude of British and other European friends that I visit and correspond with regularly.
What you say about yorself is entirely your affair, but when you take it upon yourself to speak for others, then you need to expect for others to have a reaction to what you say if you grossly mischaracterize them.
You, sir, are a FReeper after my own heart.
Breast-feeding is, I understand from my sister and mommy friends, a wonderful and beautiful thing. But all my friends with kids know how to feed said kids without showing me what they usually reserve for their husbands and the mammogram guy.
Awwww.....(((((BLUSHING PROFUSELY))))))
I don't suppose you have an unmarried sister, by any chance? :-)
Breast-feeding is, I understand from my sister and mommy friends, a wonderful and beautiful thing. But all my friends with kids know how to feed said kids without showing me what they usually reserve for their husbands and the mammogram guy.
Agreed on all counts. Although I'm confident that the vast majority of women will use great discretion when engaged in this honored activity, there will always be some whose upbringing doesn't include courtesy for others, as evidenced by post #19.
You really need to get a life pal.
Just mothers? What about wetnurses?
Oh, so does "getting a life" mean sitting idly by while other people insult you, as you have done to me?
Sorry, maybe you enjoy having other people mischaracterize yourself as well as your country, but I certainly don't.
And when I make a mistake, I am quick to apologize and make amends. I don't waste other people's time with juvenile, bumper-sticker one-liners like "get a life".
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