Hmn. I think breastfeeding is good, I did it and if truly pressed, I would say, yes, women should do it. I breastfed publicly and when needed (LOVE that portable milk source!) but just didn't document it with a camera. Oh well, I don't have any pictures of my naked husband or sex or anything either. Maybe I'm out of touch . . .

You are so right about the mixed messages women get wrt breastfeeding! I remember being out with my son and trying to find private places to nurse. I've been inside retail dressing rooms, restaurant coat rooms and once a little tiny closet in a fancy restaurant, so small I couldn't stand. The places that most amazed me were the kids store that didn't have a place for moms to nurse. Thank you Nordstroms for having a mother's room. Love the onesie btw! Thank you for raising this issue.

That is hysterical!!

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It's my thought that anyone who thinks women should not breastfeed in public should not be allowed to bottle-feed in public either. It's not sexual; just chillax already.

I have to say one of my weirdest breastfeeding moments with child #3 came at the Bronx Zoo, when I snuck to the back of the gorilla exhibit to nurse him on a bench in a darkish corner. There was a female gorilla nursing her baby on the other side of the glass, and me nursing my baby in the back of the room. I didn't get as much attention as the gorilla, although I did get a couple of stares (from the humans, not the gorillas).

Thank you very much for the mention of our onesie! We are so thankful for the press because it helps us raise money for breast cancer!

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And...the blog entry is hysterical! You really struck our funny bone!

Cute onesie for a good cause. Enough with the breastfeeding thang already. Some mothers choose to; some (like me - no one ever said anything to me about bottlefeeding my baby, and my daughter turned out just fine, thank you) choose not to. So, please, can we all just agree that it's every mother's own choice and go on with our lives? Thank you. Other than that, Kristin, I love your blog.

I feel your sister's pain on this one. I'm trying to wean my one year old and it's harder than I thought it would be .

And I hate that in America breastfeeding in public is considered vulgar. How can caring for your child be inappropriate?

I do have a photo of me breastfeeding my daughter because it has been a very special and meaningful time for me. I don't post it on the internet, but I do have one.

Breastfeeding is the most natural thing on the planet. It is shocking, and embarassing, to me that people in this country have more problems with nursing moms in public, or photos of breastfeeding, than most of what we ALL (including kids) see on tv, moveis, magazines and on billboards! A very warped and confused society we live in, indeed.

I grew up in the 70s. My mother and most of my friend's moms did not breastfeed. I grew up thinking it was gross. I remember seeing a Canadian woman breastfeeding at my house with my mom and her friends there and I remember their discomfort. I also grew up in Saudi Arabia and I remember sitting in a woman-only (woman and kids only) waiting room at our clinic and seeing this woman nursing her baby across the room. She was wearing the full Arab black dress...can't remember if her face was covered, but her head was. Her baby was probably 1 and he was done and was just looking around the room, so it was odd to see this woman completely covered except for her boob that was just laying there out in the open.

When I had my first baby in 1996, I planned to breastfeed.....the peer pressure alone was motivation. However, I was not really keen on it because I had grown up thinking it was gross. My baby was born with the cord wrapped tightly around her neck and was sent to the NICU. She was fine, but they wanted to make sure her circulation was ok, which meant bottlefeeding, so they could see if she was taking in/peeing out enough. So, my intro to breastfeeding was using a hospital grade double pump about 8 hours after giving birth when the exhaustion had just set in. And it never failed. In that 48-hour period, every time I got hooked up to that pump, somebody walked in the door.

I breatfed all three of my babies....not for real long, but long enough for the older ones to see it as a normal thing and they see my friends do it as well. I don't think this will be such a big issue 10-15 years from now when more and more children are used to seeing breastfeeding in public. I always covered up because I didn't want people to see my boobs, but I couldn't care less if I see another woman's boobs while she is nursing or if my kids see them nursing either.

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Oh, boy, this one was huge for me. I hadn't realized how important it was until the airplane episodes with nursing moms being booted and the whole Facebook dabacle. I used both of my blogs to post images as part of the League of Maternal Justice (Boob Squad)campaign. The most galling part for me - Bill Maher's comments. I mean the amount of skin I show when nursing is vaslty less impressive than an Abercrombie and Fitch ad or, dare I say it, a Bill Maher piece of arm candy. Poor Bill, I have another due in April who will get the breast on demand, whether at the park or my backyard.

And your gorilla story? Brilliant!

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You should be afraid of Tell Me You Love Me. If you have that TV blocking thing, enact it immediately. My sister told me, "It's kind of like soft-core porn." Well, it's not kind of. It is. I get embarrassed pretty easily, so even as a grown adult, I had to turn it off about 15 minutes in. I can't imagine the kind of questions that would come up if any child stumbled onto it.