Pope Francis Supports Breastfeeding Enough To Know It Needs To Happen In Public

[zab]

:doh2:

Exactly!

 

[7armyrugrats]

There is nothing at all immodest about feeding a baby. No mom giving her baby bottle is asked to do so privately or asked to cover her baby up as it’s trying to eat. A bottle baby can walk all over the place as it’s feeding, but a breastfed infant is expected to be either covered or in a separate room. I find it so funny that only in developed countries where we are supposed to be better educated do we have this kind of debate. No where else do people fear someone is being immodest or causing lust by feeding their baby. Instead they see it as simply a mom doing what all moms must do. No reason to cover up, no reason to be embarrassed, nothing at all immodest. It is simply a mother feeding her baby. Only amongst “well educated” people is there any type of discussion about the breasts being a sexual object and therefore breastfeeding must happen privately.

Seriously, we don’t need another modesty debate. And only in America would a debate about the pope thinking that women should nurse their kids when the baby is hungry would end up being two pages, let alone seven. And still growing…

 

[glendab]

Why is it that something that was perfectly natural and necessary since God made Eve has become almost foreign in our “culture?”

Since that advent of bottles, formulas and the Pill, the vocation to motherhood has been so alienated from our thoughts that the breast can only be seen as a “sexual” organ. All women are hurt by this kind of thing, not just those who find out how disparaged the vocation to motherhood has been once they endeavor to use their God-given talents (and I do mean breasts!) for sustaining life!

And what of our men? They too are hurt buy this. Just imagine St. Joseph gazing on the newborn Savior as He nursed at the breast of the Virgin! Come on people!

One hundred years ago every women breast fed her children. To deny the breast to a child was considered unthinkable. When a women turned away at her child’s call for nourishment, she was seen as not worthy to be a mother and abusive and horrid. We even had wet-nurses for those children who needed them and they were seen as a blessing to women who needed them! They WERE life savers! Literally. When the mother died after birth or twins were born or for some reason the mother’s milk wouldn’t come “in.”

Why all the fuss? Because we have been indoctrinated into a culture of death and this “issue” that used to be a non-issue was created by it. We’ve lost our moorings to the natural way God planned for women AND men. Wake up folks! We’ve all been a little robbed by the culture of death.

Glenda

 

[Havard]

Seriously, people who have a problem with “uncovered breastfeeding” don’t sound to me like they have ever looked at a breastfeeding woman - you can’t actually SEE much of anything! Just look at the woman in the picture above - to me, a straying eye would really have to add an ACTIVE imagination to find anything even remotely tempting in such a view.

Okay so just two quick stories to respond that and insight into my personal thought process…

1. I was talking with a gal yesterday (yep, yesterday) about her firm’s dress code, which they are in the process of changing. She brought up the subject of low-cut tops/blouses for women. She recalled to me that a senior woman had told her that some of the tops she was wearing were too low-cut. She said to the senior woman, “But the top you’re wearing is lower-cut than anything I ever wear!” To which the senior woman responded, “Yes, but you have boobs.”
2. When I personally post about covering, I keep thinking about a CAF thread from years ago, where a very large-breasted woman was nursing her baby in a pew, and her breast was literally rubbing against the OP’s pre-teen son. The OP was also a woman, and had even nursed herself, however she got bombarded by harsh and even rude responses for simply saying that there is a concern here. I wish I could find the thread, but that’s neither here nor there.

People can (and have, many times, even in this thread) turn this into a straw man about whether nursing is appropriate at all or whether mom/baby should go to another room. No one, to my knowledge, in any CAF thread on this issue, has ever advocated that.

The point I try to make here isn’t one of disapproval or judgment. It’s a suggestion. I think that it is thoughtful to at least try to cover. That’s it. That’s my point. It seems some others share it, but if you don’t, I don’t love you any less.

 

[pnewton]

The point I try to make here isn’t one of disapproval or judgment. It’s a suggestion. I think that it is thoughtful to at least try to cover. That’s it. That’s my point. It seems some others share it, but if you don’t, I don’t love you any less.

It has been mentioned that in most societies breastfeeding is not an issue at all. I would like to respond and say that most issues work out a lot better with a little compromise and common sense. There is no need to be militant for or against breastfeeding. Yes, a baby needs nourishment and a mother should give her baby what if physically needs. Likewise, children need peace and examples of charity that are every bit as important as food.

Yes, others share discomfort, both being near breast-feeding and being the mother who does it. Right or wrong, it is a reality. We can practice charity in the way we see fit for all, the baby as well as everyone else.

 

[DMC12]

I think the appropriate reaction to seeing a breastfeeding woman is a smile, one that she can see, one that says “Good for you! You gave your child life and now you are trying to do what’s best for him/her.”

nope, the best reaction is to continue as if you saw nothing and let her feed the child. the smile can be creepy and make you look like a peeping tom.

 

[glendab]

Oh Pnewton I just have to say I love your kitties and every time I find you in a thread I smile at them. Thanks for the kitty humor.

Glenda

 

[pnewton]

Oh Pnewton I just have to say I love your kitties and every time I find you in a thread I smile at them. Thanks for the kitty humor.

Glenda

Oh, I am a cat person for sure! So, your welcome and I am glad they make you smile. Although if they become offensive, maybe I could cover them with a blanket in public.