We've had varius posters over the years in the UK, and various 
surveys to guage the effect of them.

I think it's fair to say that the lovely and wonderfully-sloganned 
Canadian one would be considered too 'naked' for the sensitivities of 
the UK - this is, after all, the country which disallowed a cinema ad 
that urged people to vote in the European elections because it had a 
fleeting image of a baby at the breast where you could see (for a 
nano-second) a fuzzy image of the mother's nipple.

We have enormous hang-ups about the exposure of mother's breasts. Any 
discussion of public breastfeeding always ends up with people talking 
about 'women who haul their breasts out' or 'shoving their breasts in 
people's faces' and similar. In classes, there is always real anxiety 
about doing it 'discreetly' .

I haven't noticed any lessening of this in 30 years - not one iota.

I can't imagine the bare-top scenario described by Rachel Myr 
happening anywhere here at all :(  Any mother doing this in a clinic, 
even in front of a midwife,  even in a heat wave, would risk being 
considered dreadfully exhibitionist....

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK.

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