Breastfeeding in public. 

 

Last year during World Breastfeeding Week there was a letter to the
editor of the local newspaper from a woman who was very strong in her
disapproval of breastfeeding in public. I think she expected a whole lot
of 'yes we totally agree with you' letters to the editor. However the
only letters published subsequently were in support of breastfeeding
women - which was great.  One of them was written by a  man with a great
response to the woman's letter. I have reproduced it below and changed
the name of the woman.  

 

All the best

 

Carol Bartle in Christchurch New Zealand. 

 

"Jane is quite right in assuming that she is not the only person who
objects to breastfeeding in public. There's nothing worse than watching
another human eat. I went to a restaurant the other day, only to find,
to my disgust, that people were at it in full view of me and each other.
Surely they could eat in the privacy of their own homes. 

 

Farmers are the worst. I have often found, to my dismay, that
significant numbers of stock are farmed in paddocks with nothing to
conceal them than a few strands of wire. Jane sensibly confines her
objections to babies who are eating in public, no doubt strategising
that it is best to break down the public eating debate and target only a
section at a time.

 

I'm sure she would agree, however, that the need for food is not the
only issue related to babies being out and about in the public arena. 

 

I've noticed that they can be noisy, messy and that they rarely, if
ever, pay their own way. The capsules or buggies they are transported in
often cramp public spaces for room, and they often cause crowds of
interested onlookers to gather around them. They tend to promote
spontaneous and uncontrollable joy but their lack of independence and
social responsibility surely outweigh such benefit.

 

All in all the sensible solution to Jane's issue would seem to be to ban
babies altogether". 

 


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