Breastfeeding is Beautiful

Morning everyone, happy Saturday. In a rare break, I have had hardly any queasiness this morning. (Now if you'll excuse me I'll go kick myself right in the rear for most likely jinxing the whole thing.) And over the past few days I finally had the chance to visit all my favorite blogs and catch up with some of the best writers out there. As it almost always happens, I came across one entry that really stuck with me. Kept me thinking and pondering and wondering what I'd do in the same situation. The post was over at Pinks and Blues Blog, and if you haven't read it you should definately check it out, it's called Got Milk? And it involves an entry where one of the girls saw a new mom breastfeed her child in a restaurant. A perfectly normal, beautiful event, correct? Unfortunately, some other people present turned into an ugly, vulgar activity.

I don't get it.

Contrary to popular belief, breasts were not originally created in order to provide playthings for grown men, or to give plastic surgeons yet one more area to fool with. Their entire purpose for being is to provide comfort and nourishment to children. So for those people who have an issue with breastfeeding, and especially those who feel the innane need to make nasty comments whenever they see a woman doing what is completely natural and beautiful, I have one thing to say to you.

Get over yourself.

Whatever your personal issues might be with your own body, whatever discomfort you may feel that forces you to project sexual undertones onto something as completly NON-sexual as breastfeeding, GET OVER IT.

In the simplest terms, here it is. Breastfeeding, or not breastfeeding is a completely personal choice. There is no "right" choice as every mother and every child is different. That being said, when a woman who does choose to breastfeed does so in your presence, I can promise you, she's not trying to flash you. She's not being "lazy" or "gross" or any of those other terms people throw around when they are uncomfortable about something because they simply don't choose to try and understand it.

A WOMAN WHO IS BREASTFEEDING IS ONLY, I REPEAT, ONLY SEEING TO HER CHILD'S NEEDS.

There is nothing unacceptable or dirty or vulgar about it, no matter where it takes place. And just so you know, if we should happen to be somewhere and I hear someone making a snide comment about a breastfeeding, I WILL NOT have a problem being the one to put them in their place. Call it my gift to mother's everywhere.