Make up your minds!Follow

First we have the whole burkha "women shouldn't be covered up" thing.

Now we have a "woman AND baby daughter need to be covered". Really, isn't a blanket worse than a burkha? At least with the burkha there's some eye mesh to kind of see through.

Look, either you wants to see the ******* or you don't.

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Edited, Today 7:18pm by Celcio

It's always been a double standard for women nursing. You are told that you are an awful mother if you dont nurse, but you have a much higher chance of being ostracized if you try to nurse in public, even discreetly.

If BART is any indication, until 5-6 years of age. It's easier if they can help you button your shirt back up, I suppose.

Gbaji's mom stopped when he went to college.

But the lady cured cancer so get off her f'ucking back, okay!

And I guess if he can ask for a cigarette afterwards it's a clear indication that you've let it go on too long.

Now there's a big "suck-off" going on in a bunch of airports around the country to protest. That's got to be a sight. Way to exploit those beans.

retards

I really think childbirth unbalances some people permanently.

so I really DID drive my mother nuts.

interesting.

Not to mention filthy...those things don't get washed between passengers.



World Health Organization recommends exclusive breastfeeding until at least six months, then nursing supplemented with solids until at least 2 years.

American Academy of Pediatrics and American Association of Family Physicians both recommend exclusive breastfeeding until at least six months, and supplemented with solids until over a year "until both mother and baby are ready to wean."

The "exclusive to 6 months" is getting encouragement to be nudges back to "6-9 months." Some babies really aren't ready for solids by 6 months.

The median age for complete weaning in most of the world is--get this--4.2 years.

I plan to nurse exclusively until between 6-9 months, and then supplemented with solids until Ambrya 2.0 seems ready to wean. And I will NOT put a blanket over his/her head until the person making the request of me goes and tries to eat their meal and breath normally with a blanket covering their head. And certainly not a disgusting, filthy airline blanket.

As for this absurd debacle on the plane, I think this (posted to a breastfeeding community of which I'm a part) says it all:

I plan to quit breastfeeding once that sucker sprouts a tooth. As for breastfeeding in public, I would hope that having a baby wouldn't rob me of my manners completely. Yeah, it's a source of nourishment, but it's also a breast, and you're in public. Be discreet.

My need to provide my child with optimal nourishment trumps any lame puritanical discomfort someone else feels at the honest sight of some bared skin, period. Deal with it. I'm making the right choice for my baby, and NO ONE has a right to harass me about that.

As for the blanket over the baby's head, even if you can do it in a way that won't make breathing more difficult, there comes a point where many--even most--babies just won't allow it. If they can pull it off, they will. If they can't, they will squirm and refuse to eat, and then scream and disrupt the public scene even worse because they're hungry and not being fed. And I can't blame them--I feel claustrophobic with anything covering my face, why should I expect a baby to just accept it?

The discourtesy here in not on the part of the mother. It's on the part of the people who just can't get over themselves enough to understand that they're harassing a woman trying to do the toughest job on earth and do it right. We need to be supporting these mothers and these babies, making it EASIER to breastfeed in any circumstances, not tougher. I'm so sick of self-centered people who think their own person hang-ups should take priority over doing what's right for a child.