Breastfeeding--Making Public what should be Private

There have been so many articles, videos, and comments flying around social media, that I thought I needed to put in my two cents. It isn’t appropriate for anyone-nursing mother or not to be showing their breasts in public. What kind of rights are we seeking?  Remember when you were little and your Mom told you that “those are your privates.” Are there not “privates” anymore?! You want people to be comfortable with you whipping it out to nurse? Recently a nursing mother fed her baby openly right in front of me, and it made me (a mother) uncomfortable. I can’t imagine my poor husband or other such gentleman.  We need to stop being so self centered thinking that everyone should be comfortable with what we are doing; start thinking about others, the sweet little boys and the men that are around us. Heaven forbid someone might be struggling with an addiction to pornography, and you have to open up and nurse right in front of them. Nursing is a wonderful moment shared by a child and their Mother. Why do we want to share it with the whole world!?

There is a video circulating that has a women scantily dressed and a woman who is nursing. People respond differently in the video, but I am responding the same, BOTH are absolutely INAPPROPRIATE. In a previous blog I talked about modesty; our society is dressing more and more immodest--I certainly don’t want breastfeeding to go in that direction. I do not sympathize with either one of these women. It is my opinion that a nursing mother should be considerate of others and go to a quiet, private place to feed her baby. If you have to feed your baby in public, cover yourself up so that others aren’t staring at what they shouldn’t be. You know they make really cute and fashionable nursing covers. How hard is that? My second opinion is that this beautiful model got exactly what she was asking for; sexual attention from men.  In general I think that we need to be more conscious of how we are presenting ourselves, and our bodies. "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defiles the temple of God, him will God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are." 1Corithians 3:16-17

One argument that I have heard is that breastfeeding is a "natural" thing. Well so is urinating, and a man could be arrested for indecency if he peed in public. They are called "privates" for a reason.