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8625, RE: nursing on the bus...
Posted by knumskul, Wed Apr-03-02 06:41 AM
>and i'm not being fair, becasue
>they're were a lot of
>people, especially guys i knew,
>who wanted to know everything
>about breastfeeding. they asked questions
>and were proud of me
>for making that choice. even
>my mom, who's not into
>natural anything was surprised and
>pleased when i decided to
>breastfeed.

Same here. Folks were proud of me and asking questions (even the weirded out folks). My mother is the same way, too. She said she learned so much from my nursing experience. She highly recommends it now. I overheard her telling her neighbors daughter that nursing is the best, her grandson was never sick, yadda, yadda, yadda. I just smiled.
ANother big misconception is that some women think that if they're "heavy chested" they can't nurse. My cousin said that she thought she'd smother her daughter so she never tried. and was too embarrassed to ask. that was 15 years ago and she was a teen mother. I can only imagine how lost and confused she was.

>to me, breastfeeding mothers are normal,
>they just seem to be
>in some kind of "secret
>society". once you start talking
>ot people you find out
>how many people really have
>chosen it over formula.

So true. The Secret Society of Nursing Mothers (SSNM), lol.