I am so glad that National Breastfeeding Month is the same month as my birthday. I've been totally busy and consumed with my house, but I feel its so important to normalize breast feeding in the United States. First of all, breastfeeding is a right that some are denied. Here in the US many think its strange...."Why um, you know they make formula right?!" And many many moms have to work and its not possible for them to breastfeed because they don't have the privacy nor storage facilities to breastfeed. That is why I feel its important to help normalize it instead of sexualize it. In many other parts of the world, they have breastfeeding rooms in restaurants or stores, I've never seen them in the U.S. Its sad, its something that should be looked at as beautiful and natural and should be mainstream. Work places need to provide women with the right atmosphere to be able to pump or breastfeed their children. We as women need to make this happen, we need to unite and support mothers who choose to breastfeed. So many don't because they think its not possible or its too difficult to do and work at the same time, and it just might be fore them. But we need to stand up and voice our concerns.
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| Baby B, 8 months old and still exclusively breastfed, (outside of solids) |
Author: HeatherWife, Mother of Two Boys, Coffee Addict, Pinterest obsessed, an aspiring writer balancing every day life of raising a family and blogging about it.
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Very well said! I have 3 kids 18, 11 & 2 - the circumstances of my life when each was born had a lot to do with how long I was able to breastfeed each of them. With my middle child I went right back to work and while I had a wonderfully supportive boss who let me use HIS OFFICE as a place to pump, I was only able to keep it up for about 6 months. In contrast, because I have been able to work just part time this time around so the youngest self weaned at 24 months.
That was nice of your boss. When I was working with my first son, I had the luxery of being able to close my office door and pump. The only uncomforable part was storing the pumped milk in the break room fridge in a primarily male dominated work place. Also washing up the breast pump parts received a few head scratches too. But at least I was able to do that.
I have the desire to breastfeed my baby for as long as possible. However, I have a dilemma with not having a place to pump while at work.
That I feel is the biggest reason most women discontinue breastfeeding. It either becomes too uncomfortable at work, or like in some cases with a friend of mine, she was simply never allowed the time to be able to do it. And if you don't have a refrigerator...then you can't do it at all.
Such a cute picture!!!!!
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