Small, But Contented Turn-Out To Breastfeeding Challenge
Today’s event marks the 13th annual local participation in the World Breastfeeding Challenge
Prince George, BC – It was small group of contented infants that took part in marking the World Breastfeeding Challenge at the public library this morning…
When Northern Health Lactation Consultant, Jeanne Hagreen, one of the organizers, asked participating moms for their thoughts on how to draw a larger crowd to future challenges, one woman said, "Have somebody say that you can’t breastfeed and you’ll have a whole bunch of moms turn-out."
Others echoed her comments, referring to an incident at Pine Centre mall this past summer, when a mom was told she could not nurse on a seat in the children’s play area. (click here, for previous story)
Hagreen admitted the mall policy, which was quickly revised, inflamed moms and parents, alike. She says everyone needs to realize it’s a human rights violation to prohibit a mother from nursing her child.
However, Hagreen said, "I’d rather not see moms angry." She preferred to focus on the great strides that have been made in Prince George to ‘normalize’ breastfeeding.
"Moms nurse all over this city, in all places," she said. "It’s normal. It’s feeding your child."
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I wonder if not having it on the same day as the Kids Good As New sale would help. I think it was the same day last year too. I’m not sure it’s possible to change the date of either, but I know for myself I haven’t gone because it’s the same day and time as the sale.
They wouldn’t let me in! :(
what are they trying to prove?
I have absolutely no problem with a mother breastfeeding her baby anywhere, anytime.
Most of us were breastfed as infants, so big deal.
Anyone who does have a problem with it has a personality disorder.
Agreed Grizz!
“Moms nurse all over this city, in all places”
Such statements always cause me to look for the limits, and explore around those limits …..
While driving a car?
While riding a bike?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2413495/Mother-arrested-China-breastfeeding-baby-driving-moped.html
“”Moms nurse all over this city, in all places,”
Actually they’re multi talented and the statement didn’t say they were breast feeding while doing something, rather they were breast feeding in all places. :-)
Is a drivers seat a place? ;-)
While taking a quick look, I discovered that some people took issue with a mom nursing a baby in the shallow end of a swimming pool.
Others took issue with a mom nursing a baby in a pub. Which raises a whole issue of underage people in a pub. Should the baby be in a pub in the first place in a district which restricts access to those who are of drinking age. ;-)
[url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2392654/Was-lifeguard-right-order-mother-Stephanie-Wilby-stop-breastfeeding-son-swimming-pool.html[url]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2392654/Was-lifeguard-right-order-mother-Stephanie-Wilby-stop-breastfeeding-son-swimming-pool.html
Back to the drivers seat, I should have asked a bit more of a detailed rhetorical question: Is a driver’s seat in a vehicle moving on a public highway a place? :-)
Breastfeeding your baby in public is a completely natural, and nurtural act.
What I find offensive is when over-the-top images of breastfeeding are used for shock value to increase the sales of a magazine. No magazine is more guilty of this than Time Magazine. Just Google Time Magazine breastfeeding picture IF you want to see tabloid gutter sensationalism.
Anyone who has to do this as a statement to the rest of us, is seriously brain damaged. I am capable of inseminating women but I don’t sit in the mall showing off my testicles. Get a grip you morons. We know you have the capability to breastfeed — keep it in the home where it belongs.
Big Bore, a recent court ruling in Sweden might be of interest to you, if you ever feel the urge to sit in the mall and show off your testicles:
http://news.ie.msn.com/entertainment/public-masturbation-is-now-legal-in-sweden
I’m feeling that it might be time to stop going to the mall!
Nothing new in Canada either …. walk along the shores of English Bay starting at Wreck Beach and ending up at one of the old concrete fortifications from WWII from which a trail goes back up to the Anthropological Museum, one has a choice of simply enjoying the hike and the view over the water to the north shore, or noticing the nude men at the vegetation edge of the escarpment.
Nudity is allowed/tolerated in the Wreck Beach area, one of several in Canada.
Much more common in Europe though, especially the central on northern countries and now the southern countries as well because the northern tourists brought it with them to the sunny and much milder climates.
If society in Canada had a healthier attitude to nudity, breastfeeding in public would not be such a controversial topic.
In fact, I suspect that private breastfeeding may be a controversial topic to a significant part of the population.
What I can’t get over is the puritanical, self righteous attitude of so many people. Go to any foreign country other than the west, and you’ll see mothers breastfeeding babies anywhere.
Babies don’t have a lot of patience. they need to feed several times a day. Mothers don’t have the option to sit at home with them all day, they have other things that need getting done too. They take their babies with them and when they get hungry, they feed them.
If you can’t stand to see very small children fed, then YOU have the problem-not the mothers or babies.
Being a leg man has it’s perks.
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