didn't know this but i do now!

they're breasts. we have them to feed babies. that's it. that's why we have them. not for you to stare at. not for you to play with. not for you to laugh at. not to be made bigger so we can feel more like a woman. we have breasts to feed babies.

now we can CHOOSE to let you play with them or stare at them. we can even choose to have them reconstructed if they are causing us physical or mental pain.

but they are to FEED BABIES. they're NO BIG DEAL. they're breasts. we should be allowed to feed children any time, any where, any how. we should NEVER be made to feel unwelcome or embarrassed.

it's effing ridiculous. i just don't understand. even some people i know who are 'enlightened' think breast feeding is a bit on the icky side. i can only shake my head and tell any and everyone with a problem, GET THE F**K OVER IT!!!

It’s World Breastfeeding Week – More Hospitals Have Been Added to the Baby-Friendly List, and a Word on Judgment

Posted by Rachel
t’s World Breastfeeding Week, and Women’s eNews has a piece up about new additions to the list of Baby-Friendly Hospitals, facilities which meet 10 criteria demonstrating a commitment to improve institutional breastfeeding policy, training and practices. The criteria are 10 breastfeeding-focused steps outlined by UNICEF/WHO, including helping mothers initiate breastfeeding, allowing “rooming in,” and other practices. The complete list of 83 qualifying U.S. facilities is available from the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative.

Now, whenever this particular week rolls around, there are inevitably a flood of posts on breastfeeding, especially about how women who can’t or won’t breastfeed experience harsh judgment from others. With so many cultural and workplace barriers in place that discourage breastfeeding or make it nearly impossible, I don’t think it’s that useful to judge individual women for their choices – much better to spend that energy on workplaces that don’t provide adequate breaks or accessible space for pumping, our general lack of parental leave (as compared to other nations), and corporate a-holes who ask women customers to leave businesses or go to bathrooms to breastfeed. Much better to encourage states that haven’t to pass and enforce laws that exempt breastfeeding from public indecency laws and explicitly allow women to breastfeed anywhere women are otherwise allowed to be............