“Maybe they are sexually repressed in some way and unaccustomed to a woman’s physical body in a non-sexual way,” says Courtney, an expecting mom from New York. “Maybe they’re unaccustomed to the breastfeeding necessity and simply don’t understand how important and how frequently it needs to happen.”
Kizzy, a mother of four in North Carolina breastfed all of her kids and echoes the same sentiment. “They probably bottle-fed and didn’t understand enough to respect it,” she says. “I personally didn’t care. The most important thing was my children’s immediate need.”
Although every mom I spoke to didn’t have an issue with public breastfeeding, they all felt that a bit of cover-up isn’t a bad thing either.
“Babies gotta eat,” Kim a veteran mom says. “You should have a blanket or something, though.”
Courtney also told me, “I’m not gonna stay home and/or be out and uncomfortable with a hungry baby just because other people don’t want to see it, especially if I’m not really showing them anything.”
When our son was an infant, breastfeeding would’ve have been the most awesome option in the world except that Liam was too uppity to drink from the breast. My wife had to pump milk, bottle it and only then would he drink it. My hopes for dodging the nighttime feedings were destroyed as holding a bottle was something that I as a man, could biologically do.
OK, it was a wack plan but what else would you expect from a man? Seeing a woman breastfeed in public will not mentally scar you or your kids. If anything, it should open an educational dialogue about how the human body works. And the more educational convos with have with our kids, in my opinion, the better off they’ll be.
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