Props to Anita…
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…for not being afraid/offended/bothered/etc. by seeing a breastfeeding baby.
After church today, Anita wanted to see Patrick because she hadn’t yet. He was nursing in the sling and you couldn’t really see any skin at all because my sweater was pulled up top and my tank shirt covered my belly and back skin. I told her he was eating but if she wanted to see him, it didn’t bother me. She said promptly, “It doesn’t bother me!” So for this I commend her!
Giving birth in front of several people that saw me butt naked made me not care about breastfeeding in public. I didn’t expect that. As long as my skin in back and front is covered and nothing pops out in the process, I am totally cool with walking around in public feeding my hungry baby. I also don’t care about other women seeing a little more skin if I’m in private or if they look at him while nursing in the sling. It just doesn’t matter and it’s not offensive at all. Yesterday I walked around Target and Other Mothers nursing him without a sling. I just turned towards the wall in case something accidentally showed that I didn’t want showing, got him latched on, and went about my business. It really looked like I was just holding a baby, and unless you noticed that the bottom half under the baby was a different colored shirt than the top, it was not obvious at all. And I didn’t even have to mess with a blanket or getting him just right in the sling. Yay!
