Hopefully Catherine Sepeda over comes being an uneducated racist. Babies have the right to eat where ever they are, there is no shame in it. If breastfeeding is sexual then a bottle is a dildo (Sorry for the vulgarity but it makes a clear point I think!) and seeing we know that isn’t the case, there is nothing wrong with breastfeeding even if you accidently get flashed. She needs to grow up and put on big girl panties!
I say this is a sad second in breastfeeding history because thankfully so few will hear about this ladies sad opinions on breastfeeding and mexicans. It is really a SMH at her and her ugly words. It seems as if she places value in other things, but assuming wouldn’t be kind, nor all that helpful.
While this image spreads around the webs in some small circles I am thankful to see the outcry over the wrongness of it on many levels. Few are standing in the way of a babies right to breastfeed where ever it is legally allowed to be. The laws state as much but sadly some people don’t know, or don’t care, or have sexual mental issues they try to place on breastfeeding mothers and babies. I think they need some therapy. As they are not bound to get any, the least we can do is keep standing up for breastfeeding rights.
Lets support feeding babies and helping them thrive in the best ways possible. It is a shame to not support it in my mind!
These types of comments drive me bonkers. It is so sad that a mom can’t feed her baby in public without being judged. I have written so many posts about nursing in public and hope that one day it is the norm. I wish that I was still breastfeeding but that is a thing of the past for me. 🙁 I will still stand up and educate people and have a whole section on my blog supporting breastfeeding moms. Kudos for posting this to help educate people about a mom’s right to feed her baby.
I am so glad you support breastfeeding publicly too. I no longer nurse either and that is a thing of the past for me as well. It was very hard for me for medical reasons and so many other reasons but I fought so hard to do it when I knew better. It was horrible to have to worry about feeding baby and worry about what other people thought when out in public. It was hard enough as it was. Mothers don’t need to take on other people issues when they need to focus on feeding their babies. Alas, I should get off my soap box. Thank you for the support Christy!
Wow!!! Thank you for posting this, I breastfed my daughter any and everywhere including an airplane, Disney, etc! It’s comments like that, that make “new” mothers second guess BF’ing in public!!!
Just when you think we’ve come so far (with breastfeeding even featured in the Luvs ad–hysterical!), something like this happens. I thought in the last 16 years (since I fed my first in bathroom stalls) until now (my 3rd was fed publicly, but discretely). Ugh. I agree with you. It’s a baby’s right to eat and there’s nothing sexual about it. Why not use the time while getting hair done to cuddle and feed a baby?!?! Can’t do much else.
Wow, what hate and intolerance from Ms. Sepeda! A baby has to eat. Sheez. Breastfeeding can be done modestly in public. My daughter wasn’t able to nurse, long story, but I was able to pump for her for 18 months. Now I didn’t pump in public, somehow that was crossing the line for me . . . 😉
I would much rather see a mother breastfeeding her child than see a scantily clad woman with her cleavage barely contained for the sole purpose of showing off her chest. I breastfed all four of my children, sometimes quite publicly because an infant’s appetite isn’t contingent on the number of people in the immediate vicinity.
I continue to be stunned by the lack of tolerance
and the bullying of women by other women from a
generation that screams tolerance and acceptance.
I breastfed my daughter 40 years ago and never once
was made to feel uncomfortable by anyone. I used a
receiving blanket and most people had no clue the baby was eating.
Those that did only smiled my way. What in the world is happening to
our society? Honestly scary.