I cannot believe that in the year of 2013, we are still having the old debate of breastfeeding in public. This is one that gets my knickers in a twist!
People! We are not living in the 1950s anymore!
When it came to light last week that a Mummy in Qld was asked to stop breastfeeding at a public pool, I just felt angry for her. It is a mother's God-given right to feed her baby. It's an instinct. When our dear little ones are screaming for a feed, we feed them. Whether it be bottle or breast. And let me tell you - I have nothing against bottle feeding at all, babies need to be fed and however that may be is what works for different families.
BUT! There is no hesitation in whipping a bottle out of the nappy bag and worrying about the condescending stares about being discreet. It just doesn't happen.
I loved breastfeeding my babies. I was very lucky that my three littlies took to the boobies with gusto minutes after they were born and we never had any issues. All of them fed for around 12 months and I was so happy with that. I demand fed - when they wanted a feed, they got it.
I've never used parent feeding rooms, because quite honestly, the one here in this town always smells like poo, literally. I'd always sit down on a bench or at a cafe. I wouldn't make a big song and dance about it. Just sit down quietly to feed. I wasn't always discreet, I rarely threw a blanket over my babies' heads. I just simply DID NOT CARE what anyone thought.
Never once did anyone ever ask me to leave, or suggest a more appropriate place to feed my babies. But God help them if they had! It is a perfectly normal, healthy thing to do - and it is LEGAL! Maybe all the goody-two-shoes in the world need to concentrate more on banning and moving on the countless idiot druggies in our society these days - you know, the ones that are actually participating in something illegal.
Over the past few weeks, to read the comments from such tossers as Kochie and other social media prominents that breastfeeding in public needs to be more discreet is astounding.
Anyone notice what most teenage girls wear these days? Or just women everywhere? There's boobies being flashed everywhere! And not for the reason of breastfeeding! C'mon Kochie - I dare you to address that one!
There are bigger issues out there to be dealt with - breastfeeding in public shouldn't even be one. That simple.
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