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| Tuesday, January 23, 2007 |
| Nursing in Public |
I just read an interesting article on Canada.com about a call for the Toronto board of health to "guarantee a mother's right to breast-feed anytime, anywhere." I already thought that this was well accepted now. What mother wants to nurse her baby in a bathroom? I always make sure that I am covered up but when my baby's hungry I try to feed her as soon as possible whether I'm in walmart, the library or at a restaurant. At church I will go into the mothers room or if there is one available in other places. When my baby was first born I would always use the mothers chair in the bathroom but she would get frightened everytime the toilet flushed so I stopped doing that.
For those mothers who choose not to cover up while nursing, let them. Some babies do not like to be covered up. Women can walk around scantily clad, showing pretty much everything but when a woman feeds her baby in public she is asked to go feed the baby in the bathroom? I don't think that's right.
Here is an interesting statistic, I would like to find out more about how the study was done and why that is:
"While almost 85% of new mothers in Canada start out breastfeeding their babies, the figures show only about 47% of American mothers will still be breastfeeding by the time they are discharged from hospital." |
posted by melissaclee @ 10:02 AM  |
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