The hypocrisy has reached new levels

[ShadowHM]

As for breastfeeding mothers, their privacy is another matter entirely. But if our culture didn't attach some sort of negative stigma to physical differences or actively suckling babies, there would be no such need for this segregation.

(Hey, what can I say, I attend a liberal women's university. ;))

I breast fed all four sons for at least a year apiece.

With son #1, when we first visited the in-laws, I was taken aside and politely told that a place had been set aside for me to nurse the baby - a straight backed chair in the spare bedroom. :blink:

By the time I was nursing my fourth son, my friends (and family) were completely used to the process, so much so that they literally didn't notice it. And yet.....

One very hot summers day we were visiting friends for a barbeque dinner. Son expressed hunger; I pulled back from the table, popped out a breast and commenced feeding him. Soon after, the other female guest got up, stomped into the cottage and finished her meal there. After we left, she confronted our host and demanded why he had not admonished me for flaunting my breast in front of her husband. (Bless his heart, his first dumbfounded response was "Oh, was she nursing the baby?") Apparently I should have covered us with a blanket (in 90 degree heat) or gone inside (the hot stuffy breezeless cottage) to undertake this sordid event.

There are still those who see breast feeding as lewd. And although I would rather educate them, the presence of a 'breast-feeding' lounge where there might also be a baby-changing station (dammit, they do defecate right after nursing most of the time) would be a boon.

Edit: durn forum software! Apparently the colloquial word for defecate is not acceptable. :rolleyes: