NIP Article - reader's comments
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NIP Article - reader's comments
| Sun, 09-09-2007 - 10:53pm |
Here's an seemingly innocent article on a nurse-in at an Applebees. However, if you read the reader comments...boy oh boy! Talk about some ignorant remarks. One of them even equated NIP to smoking! Unbelievable. I thought it would be a good thing to discuss on here, especially since our resident FF/anti-NIP'ers are feeling underrepresented.
http://www.azcentral.com/community/phoenix/articles/0908breastfeeding--ON.html
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I have to say I agree with everything you've written here.
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Please don't make me laugh this early in the morning, it might wake my child.
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>>Also, there is a contingent at La Leche that says, breastfeeding will continue to be a minority choice until NIP becomes accepted. <<
I seriously doubt that La Leche League is suggesting that women ought to breastfeed in public as some sort of breastfeeding outreach.
Any links or evidence to support this claim.
La Leche League is not synonymous with Lactivist. LLL is about supporting moms who choose to breastfeeding.
Edited 9/14/2007 7:43 am ET by nisupulla
I think that your argument that women should pump to feed their babies a bottle in public is insulting. Firstly, I work full time and pump all week. When my baby is with me (1) I enjoy nursing him and (2) it is important that we nurse as much as possible to boost my supply that dips during the week.
Other posters have already said this, but I will reiterate that many women (myself included) do not produce well for a pump, even if we pump in the morning. Not to mention, I have to get up that early TO GO TO WORK so pumping to feed my baby a bottle in public later in the day so Joe Nobody doesn't get offended is not an option.
"Because NIP is not accepted just yet, I chose to prepare and plan instead."
It is more accepted than it used to be, thanks to moms who do not allow the ignorance of others to prevent them from feeding their children. How do you expect that it will ever be accepted?
I think it's great that pumping and taking along a bottle worked for *you* and was the right thing for *your* comfort level.
However, I can tell you that it's not nearly that easy for every other breastfeeding mother out there. Some don't have a pump (and can't afford a decent one), some don't respond to a pump well enough to get what their baby is going to need in a bottle and some pump so much at other times that they don't see the point.
I pump 2-3 times every day during the week so that my son can have breastmilk at day care. Believe me when I tell you that this is not a fun time. I have an excellent pump (Ameda Purely Yours), I have a private office and can pump any time I want (and I also work at home quite often) and my boss and coworkers are exceedingly supportive of my pumping and going to day care to nurse my son every day at lunch.
Even with all of these things going for me, I have struggled with my supply for the last couple of months. I have pumped more, taken fenugreek and blessed thistle, eaten oatmeal and even taken domperidone.
If I had to pump even more in order to feed my son in public just to cater to some stranger's issues, I would be absolutely, positively miserable.
I *am* prepared when I am out in public with my son. I have my breasts right there with me. You'd better believe that I am so incredibly glad that there are laws protecting my right to NIP because that is what I am going to do, when I need to do it. I do so discreetly as possible, but I do not cover up and I do not run to find a more "appropriate" place. I'm not making a statement or looking for attention.
I just want to feed my child and get on with life.
As a second-time working/pumping mum, I have to concur.
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