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Originally Posted by PoorGradStudent
The poll is hard this week because it depends totally on how the mother handles the situation. A lot of mothers I know have gone to the trouble of making discrete cover-ups specifically for breastfeeding in public because they know it's gonna happen and they want to have their privacy and not make other people uncomfortable. And frankly any woman who feels it's her right to whip out her boobs in public just because there's a kid attached to it is looking for attention, not trying to feed her child.
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I agree...don't make it a statement and expose your chest, but if you're covered up, that is totally fine.
Just a few clarifications, too...
breastfeeding doesn't make you lose weight, it is your genetics that do that. not breastfeeding doesn't keep your boobs from sagging, being pregnant does that. there aren't many nutritional benefits to breastfeeding past 1 year, but there are a TON of benefits to do it until then. breastfeeding also helps shrink your uterus back to it's original size and many studies show that is helps decrease breast cancer.
that magazine cover was rediculous, just for shock value, and that mom should be ashamed of herself, in no way was she posing for that picture to help promote "attachment parenting" it was just to get on the cover of a magazine...now her kid will go to college and this picture will be taped to his door and he will be teased about the MILF...good job, mom.