Nikki wrote:
<< wearing infant Clelia in a
 sling while I taught childbirth classes and stood up teaching while she was
 on-again, off-again nursing during the two-hour class. If the topic was
 breastfeeding, folks would sometimes be amazed to learn, towards the end of
 the class that she had bf 4-5 times during the class, because no one noticed
 a thing! Greatest teaching tool of all = the baby! >>
I remember now the two of the most unusual, most wonderful nursings:
1. teaching a class on breastfeeding to some middle school students as part
of Health class, my daughter, about 9 months needed to nurse, and I lifted my
shirt, and said "now my daughter is not upset, is happy,. and see how easy
that was?" and one boy actually stood on his desk and looked down to see if
he could see my breast, so I said " this is how nursing can be, you can hang
from the ceiling and look down and you will still not see anything"....lol (
Yes I admit I am felt right about my nursings being discreet) ANyway  it made
them all smile AND think, so that felt good.
2. As my grandmother was dying from cancer in my mom's living room, I spent
many hours there with her  in silence, nursng my then 8 month old. She did
not speak but she could see us,  and I know no words could ever bond us more
than her watching her first grandbaby being nursed...
Judy LeVan Fram, Brooklyn, NY, fan of both homebirth and homedeath...:)

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