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Inappropriate places to BFIP??
| Tue, 02-17-2004 - 10:48am |
Is there anywhere you feel it is completely inappropriate to nurse in public?
| Tue, 02-17-2004 - 10:48am |
Is there anywhere you feel it is completely inappropriate to nurse in public?
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Jeanie
Vicky ~31~
SAHM
Vicky ~32~
SAHM To
Kelsey The Brainiac
~Kim
"Becoming a parent means agreeing to allow your heart to go walking around outside of your body."
i am sorry that you lost your mom :-(
i lost my dad suddenly nov30 2002,he was only 55 ,
Vicky ~32~
SAHM To
Kelsey The Brainiac
I just had the interesting and difficult experience of BFIP on a crowded, hot, completely full plane. It was a 4hr flight. My son is about 24in long now, and I nursed him in the very confined space of an airplane seat (with those horrible, hard armrests on each side) between a window and an overweight 30ish guy overfilling the seat next to me. My son was all scrunched up, and I was miserably uncomfortable...not mentally, only physically. To add to the "fun", as soon as we took off the totally oblivious woman in front of me further invaded our inadaquate space by reclining her seat. I couldn't put my table down for a beverage, and resorted to holding a can of sprite and my sleeping little one...I've never drank a pop so fast. If he'd have woken up, I would have needed both hands ASAP, LOL. Nursing in that tiny, confined, public space was so terribly cramped and physically uncomfortable I now feel convinced that I really can (and would) nurse virtually anywhere, if my child was hungry.
:-)
-Jen
On the way to my Aunt's house, my mom told me that several weeks prior to my arrival, my aunt had asked if I was nursing, and when my mom confirmed my feeding choice, she stressed that she wanted me to be "very descrete" because she, her husband (my uncle), and their children (my cousins) weren't used to "seeing that sort of thing".
If I didn't know better, I'd think they viewed nursing akin to public masterbation.
The first night, I admit, I was a wimp. I nursed in the darkened family room, alone, covered in a blanket (just in case someone might walk in and flip on the light). But, after that experience I just decided that I'd be respectful of their sensitivities and use a blanket, but I wasn't going to hide away in some dark back room to feed my son again, and if they didn't like it, we'd leave and THEY'D miss out on seeing us.
And my DH is the same was as yours...he actually encouraged me to be far more brazen. ;-)
-Jen
Nusing a child isn't something to be ashamed or embarassed about...and if I felt pressured to leave the room to nurish my child, you wouldn't have to not invite me back...I wouldn't *want* to be spending time at you house.
My child comes first, far above repressed, inappropriately overly-sexualized sensitivities.
-Jen
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