For Justin,

You asked a couple of great questions, and there's lots of information
available to answer them.

I encourage you, and others who are talking about the question of
breastfeeding in public, to remember that breastfeeding is more than just a
way to provide food and drink to an infant or young child. It is a method of
caring for a child, protecting a child, and comforting a child. This
viewpoint is really useful if people start making analogies. A baby has the
right to eat in public? Sure! And the baby has a right to be cared for,
comforted, and protected in public too. 

So anywhere a parent or other caregiver could bottle feed OR give a pacifier
OR hug and soothe an upset child, a breastfeeding mother should be able to
give her breast to her nursing child. 

I said more about this in an editorial I wrote about a year ago. This isn't
research--there's nothing scientific here---just personal reflections.

http://www.searchmothers.com/features/editorial_nursingbabies.php

Good luck to you and your fellow students,
Chris

Chris Mulford, RN, IBCLC
LLL Leader Reserve
Working for WIC in South Jersey (Eastern USA)
Chair, Workplace Bf Support Committee, USBC
Co-coordinator, Women & Work Task Force, WABA
 
 

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