Thanks for your further post, Kerry, which adds some interesting 
points and clarifies some previous ones.

I think my own position springs from hearing the same disgust and 
distaste and misconceptions about  breastfeeding over almost 30 years 
- the *exact* same  phrases, again and again and again. I have not 
given up trying to have a dialogue about it but I have given up any 
hope of persuading anyone with words that it is only right that 
breastfeeding mothers have equality of acceptance (in the same way as 
people of different ethnicities, religions, sexual orientation, 
levels of physical and mental (dis)ability, have or should have 
equality). I don't blame anyone for the emotional baggage they bring 
to adulthood, however; but I do demand responsibility for allowing 
that emotional baggage to fuel bigotry.

I do think that after all this time, the resolution to this  will 
happen when breastfeeding is just something ordinary and every day 
that women do anywhere and everywhere and when it is hardly noticed.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK

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