My 2 cents about breastfeeding

Is this

more offensive than this

This article is just the latest story to be released about a breastfeeding mother being asked to remove themselves from a public place because they were nursing.

I have had it so back on the soapbox I go. 

In the aforementioned article, the woman was asked to leave a public kiddie pool because she was nursing her baby. This woman is at a pool, where I am almost positive there were multiple woman, cellulite and all, showing way more than this woman would be by breastfeeding her baby. Why do people go crazy when they see a woman nursing?? Do you know WHY woman have breasts? It is to feed babies!! That is what our breasts are intended to do! Now whether or not you choose to breastfeed is a personal decision. I am not saying that every woman must nurse their baby until they are old enough to ask for a sippy cup. However, I am asking that people stop being so judgmental when you see a woman nursing. There is nothing provocative about it. They are feeding their child. PERIOD. 

Would you like it if while you were eating your sandwich someone shoved a blanket over your head so no one would see you? Or better yet banished you to the car or bathroom so the sight of you eating wouldn't offend anyone? Well that is what you are telling a nursing woman by asking her to leave in order to breastfeed her child.  Never mind the fact that it is a legal right to breastfeed in public, it is just plain rude to tell a woman who is trying to feed her young one to leave because you cannot stand the sight of the top half of her breast.  I see woman with more cleavage hanging out in Target than I ever show while nursing!! I don't see anyone telling the girl with the super low cut v neck tight shirt on to leave. Or worse, the mom with the string bikini and 4 kids at the pool with all of her goodies hanging out. No one is asking her to go anywhere even though she has left nothing to the imagination.

So the next time you see a woman nursing her baby take it for what it is, nourishment!  She is providing her little baby with love, food and comfort. We should all be so lucky!

Stepping off the soapbox...for now.