Sept. 3, 2010
To the editor:
Who, I wonder, would like to eat under a blanket in the dark, in secrecy as if there was something wrong with eating or themselves?
Who, I wonder, would like to eat on a schedule rather than when hungry? Who would like to be told to wait if the need for comfort and connection arises?
If you nurse your baby on cue, there is no schedule, you don’t need a pacifier and you don’t let your baby cry until you have enough privacy to nurse. What would we do that for? For people who are offended at the sight of some skin covering milk ducts?
Personally, I find a shoulder as sexy as a breast.
It makes me wonder what is going on in those people’s minds that are so offended by a mother nursing publicly, uncovered.
Where I am from — Germany — women lay around topless, in city parks. Nobody thinks a thing of it or just looks the other way. I don’t know how the human body could be offensive in any way. It’s in the eye of the beholder.
i have five kids and breasfed 3 of them. the 2 i didn't, well, they're always the first ones to get sick and the last to feel better.
just sayin.
Years ago, I had a co-worker who breast fed at staff meetings. No one else seemed uncomfortable, and I acted like I wasn't. But it totally unnerved me.
I guess I'm too old-fashioned.
Grow up people.
The basic difference in thought to which man should be, should get the ball rolling on that matter. Adario and De Lahontan had just that discussion in the 1600s concerning the grey matter with their gray matter.
Hail polarmark, great comment.
And I have no issue with eating under a blanket. I also eat on a schedule. However, I am weird. :-)
I guess it should come as no surprise to you that I agree with 'Polarmark' far more often than I agree with you? This is one of those occasions...