>I have just come in on this discussion, as I was on a writing deadline.
>However, I do not think that everyone has the same idea about breastfeeding
>needing "discretion,"..some women feel more comfortable just breastfeeding
in public


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It's a personal thing for each mother to decide for herself, of 
course it is, and she will decide based on culture, background, 
emotion, whatever. If a mother wants help and support to bf with *or* 
without a scarf, blanket, cover or tent.....I'll give that help and 
support.

What would be truly dismaying is if anyone whose task it is to 
support breastfeeding women somehow decided it was 'better' to be 
'discreet' and that their own personal levels of comfort/ideas of 
appropriate behaviour  are the ones others should emulate.

We should at the very least be promoting the normalness of 
breastfeeding wherever the mother and child happen to be. The public 
may expect 'discretion'  and some bf women (and breastfeeding 
supporters)  may be happy to meet those expectations on a personal 
level, but it's a real shame if anyone is actually  promoting 
anything less than 'do it how you want, where you want, and when you 
want' in what they say.

Heather Welford Neil

NCT bfc, tutor, UK

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