Breastfeeding in the news
Just
when I was thinking the world was mine. Just when I’m thinking all the
world can breastfeed freely in public…. I saw a piece on Good Morning
America covering the topic and they were emphasizing a spot in the movie, Breastmilk, with the man who is uncomfortable with women nursing in
public. Then it hits me! We still have a lot of work to do to make
breastfeeding normal and commonplace.
Here is the link to the ABC news blog in which the story is covered.
They’re
actually talking about the documentary by Ricki Lake and Dana Ben-Ari
and they’ve chosen to focus on the husband who confesses his
embarrassment about seeing women, even his own wife, nursing in public.
Ricki Lake was quoted, "I believe this film will start an
important conversation about how we can better support all new mothers,
whether they breastfeed or not, and evolve to a place where
breastfeeding is not so politically charged." I agree this is raising some good public discussion. The
comments section on ABCs blog shows some interesting ideas from the
general public. Many people are supportive and just ask that mothers be
modest or discreet about it. The people that have a hard time
separating the sexuality of the breast from feeding an infant seem to be
the ones who are embarrassed by it the most and would rather it be done
in private or completely covered up.
I agree with Mother
of two and Café Mom contributor, Sasha Brown-Worsham, who breastfed
both of her children. She can only hope, as quoted in ABC's blog, "The
more that women do breastfeed in public, and are able to do that, the
better, because it normalizes the situation," she explained.
"I’m just going to keep on doing what I’m doing and feel happy and
blessed that in this very supportive community that we live in, in the
Hudson Valley of NY, that I have not yet had any confrontation about my
public breastfeeding. Lets keep supporting each other and educate those
who are confused about feeding babies".
Nice to see a blog working to better this world for our children!
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