Winnie Mading wrote:  Unfortuantely, as long as it is exporessed as the
mother's right to nurse her infant anywhere they happen to be, I don't think
we will get far.  We have to concentrate on the BABY's right to eat whenever
and wherever the need arises or we will continue to hear comoplaints about
"pushy", "extremist", "exhibitionist" women!  If it was all about the mom,
she could wait or cowtow to other's insensitivities.  But babies have no
sense of time and when they need, they need now and here, not according to
someone else';s wishes.



EXACTLY, Winnie.  It is the child who is breastfeeding, not the mom; that
concept has been discussed on LACTNET before.  Whenever I am speaking about
breastfeeding; I have to use a lot of effort to remember that.  I also have
to concentrate hard to use the word "child" instead of baby or infant; that
will also help change the view that breastfeeding is okay as long as we are
talking only about babies.  We need to normalize that toddlers and older
children breastfeed; IMO, we can do that by constantly referring to
"children" breastfeeding.  Every once in awhile, I slip and use the old
concepts; but as I concentrate on those ideas, it becomes more automatic to
say "the CHILD is breastfeeding" and not the mom or the baby/infant.

Warm regards,

Lee Galasso, MS, LLLL, IBCLC, RLC

Westchester County in NYS, USA

"Children Are Born with the Right to Breastfeed"






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