rose-owl:

strawberry-milktea:

spillywolf:

fleag:

spillywolf:

Normalize breastfeeding 🤱

Listen, I am all for feeding your baby healthy breast milk…However, as a woman I do not want to see you doing it while I’m trying to enjoy my dinner in a restaurant….Or while shopping sitting on a bench outside inside with your breasts exposed!.. Yes, I have seen this and witnessed it…As a matter of fact I was on vacation in Florida in an expensive restaurant where a lady just unleashed herself right at her table and didn’t give a damn for the other diners….Do us all a favor do it in private…It should be a private bonding time with you and your baby or child….But to witness a mother breast feed a three or four year old in public is a little too much….And I cannot be the only one who feels this way!……They make accommodations in places for you to be able to do just this……☘

That’s what boobs are for. Women have been oversexualized to where they can’t even feed their babies in a natural way in public. I get what you’re saying but breastfeeding should be a totally normal thing to do and if people don’t like it they just shouldn’t look honestly. Women shouldn’t have to escape to bathrooms or not be able to feed their child on a plane just because people can’t avert their eyes for a few minutes.

Three and four year olds are far too old to be breastfeeding so I’m not sure what you mean there.

But we can’t deny that breasts do carry a strong sexual connotation. Their role in child rearing is undoubtedly for nourishing the child but they aren’t just for breastfeeding – they’re a very prominent part of sexuality. They are an erogenous zone for women and are sexually attractive/arousing to men (and women with same sex attraction). Society of course sexualizes breasts to the extreme in a way that is unhealthy, no disagreement there. But we can’t ignore that breasts do carry a sexual connotation to them and a role in lovemaking, and that isn’t something wrong. Society’s unhealthy fixation on breasts is one of the many ways the enemy tries warping God’s design for sex with objectification. But before society started obsessing with breasts, He created us such that a woman’s breasts can be sexually stimulated by her husband, and such that her husband can delight in and find sexual satisfaction in his wife’s breasts. We see this demonstrated in scripture:

“Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.” – Proverbs 5:18-19

“Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters. I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its fruit. Oh may your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the scent of your breath like apples” – Song of Solomon 7:7-8

I would never be cruel or angry toward someone who chooses to breastfeed publicly, but it would make me feel uncomfortable to see someone’s breasts exposed in public. It’s an intimate part of the body. There’s a time and a place for everything and there are options to manage to feed one’s child in public without exposing oneself. A woman doesn’t have to go to a public bathroom to do this. There are several options such as using a breast pump to pump milk at home and carry it with her if the mother knows she will be going out with her child or if she wants to directly breastfeed, she can cover her breasts with a light cloth or blanket so the baby can eat without exposing her breasts to everyone in the room.

Just because a purpose of breasts is for feeding a child doesn’t mean we can forget modesty or the fact that breasts play a prominent role in sexual attraction and arousal.. the fact that a child is breastfeeding doesn’t make that fact disappear. Just like a woman should take measures to be modest and not expose her breasts when she isn’t breastfeeding precisely because we all know the sexual connection to breasts, that outlook shouldn’t change just because the breasts are now being used to feed one’s child – especially when there are ways to go about it that won’t compromise the child’s ability to be fed and don’t require the mother to go into a gross public bathroom to do so. Breastfeeding should definitely be seen as something normal because it is completely normal, but at the same time modesty shouldn’t be compromised.

Surly we can find some sort of compromise. No woman should be ashamed of breast feeding but one should consider how others feel. If some lady wiped out her entire tit while having a conversation with me I’d feel very uncomfortable even tho I know what they are for.