Comments on: Public Breast-Feeding: What the Nursing Bib Means for the Right to Bare Breasts

By: Mary

Mary — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:45:48 +0000

Sigh. This whole topic, especially in this day and age, is so sad. I breastfed my three kids, including a set of twins, each for almost 2 years. Breast feeding is what MAMMALS do. We don't like to think about it, but we are indeed animals, hairless, for the most part and to ourselves pretty sophisticated, but animals nonetheless. I would sit in the lawn and garden section of Target and nurse my kids, only had one person looked disgusted. She shouldn't have been staring so hard and quite frankly I am not sure if it was the sight of breast at all, the color of the breast that freaked her out, or the fact that my very greedy son turned his head, looked at her and let fly a huge burp. LOL! God, I love that kid!

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Last Week’s Most Popular Blog Posts - The Sexist - Washington City Paper — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:12:38 +0000

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By: George

George — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:54:24 +0000

This item is a nice idea, but Rose and Sarah are right; it shouldn't be needed. Besides, the real problem people who object to nursing have, is with it happening at all. It isn't because a woman is showing too much; they just can't deal with nursing at all, and don't want it happening around them. What they really object to is that they've been made aware of it. Once that happens, they don't want the Mom to cover up, they want her to stop it or go away. This item will not help with that, unless you think it will make nursing "stealthy", so people won't even know you're doing it. Good luck with that.

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Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:52:13 +0000

[...] and inventor Ella Laseinde, who created the Shield-Me-Baby Nursing Bib to allow women to breast-feed in public without flashing everybody. Laseinde’s product isn’t the only contraption on the market that encourages public [...]

By: sock puppet

sock puppet — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:18:39 +0000

Nipple bibs could become a high fashion accoutrement, and useful too!

By: Sarah H

Sarah H — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:42:53 +0000

Expecting women to hide to breastfeed is so mean and silly. This is what turns many women OFF B'fding. It is about time society grows up...and accepts a baby being fed by it's Mum. I for one wish I saw more women doing the best for their babies.

We have to do more to encourage women to breastfeed. It is not only perfect for optimum health of our children ..but also women. It reduces the risk of breast and ovarian cancer.

It is ALSO environmentally friendly. No methane producing cows needed...no damage to the earth from production, packaging or distribution!! AND no disposal of waste products..no accessories needed.

Do all you can to promote, encourage and support women to feed their OWN young...the organic milk they deserve!

By: Christina

Christina — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:55:22 +0000

Breastfeeding my baby in New York City was not so bad for me. I would typically find a safe, but not too secluded spot in my favorite park next to a church (one of those progressive, arty churches). I would wear v-neck tshirts for easy access, and my baby carrier had a sun-hood that allowed for some privacy, but I rarely used that.. Nobody ever bugged except once, strangely, a 30-something woman of the yuppie variety who came up behind me and peered right down my shirt to get a good look. She was just "amazed by the beauty of breast feeding." And I was just a little weirded out. I laughed about it to myself later.

By: Anne

Anne — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:14:51 +0000

"If breastfeeding in public makes people uneasy because the breasts are considered sexual, then bottle-feeding must be the equivalent of whipping out a dildo."

By: Rose

Rose — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:59:56 +0000

Just what an already unsupportive general public needs - devices that affirm the twisted belief that breasts are ONLY sexual and perpetuates shame in feeding babies the way nature intended. Bottles will continue to be seen as the "normal" way to feed babies, despite the facts about the risks of formula.

When are we going to get over this? Ridiculous.

By: Q

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:55:46 +0000

Dia is right. The only reason you have to cover is because of the oversexualization of breasts. It's cyclic.

1) Breasts are used to determine suitability for mating (in a primal sense), so a woman's sexuality is unfairly judged based on that.

2) The men and women who judge have saturated all media, art, etc., promoting sexuality based on the breast, not realizing that breast serve no other function outside of the reproductive/child rearing realm.

3) After promoting such sexualization, fetishes, etc., the women with "ample" busom flaunt it as if to say they are more sexual than other women. This leads to all sorts of competition and other issues as women whom feel unsexual get breast implants to mimic what mass media is judging them on.

4) All this emphasis on the breast gives some women excess physical attention, and through the natural course of things, a woman may become pregnant.

5) Once she has the child and wants to use her breast for their designed purpose, some men and women get repulsed when babies are breast feeding. And the men who find breast feeding unattractive, only go searching for other breasts that are not in use. Hence the cycle begins again.

By: Jana Baldwin

Jana Baldwin — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:45:01 +0000

This is great! People in my homeland. . aka Utah have been making these for a while. Basically, more women need to breast feed and I am to be quite honest not really thrilled about it. . I will probably pump (which a public health guru should not admit-but hey we can't be excited about everything) but this is fabulous!!!! YAY!!!!