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That's not really true - meaning breast milk keeps kids healthier than their formula fed counterparts.
The stats tend to lie where the educated are the majority of the breast feeders. Meaning that the parents of the bf'd kids have a clue and the kids are tended to appropriately - from prenatal care on up. Taken for well-visits and to the doctor when the sniffles ensue, etc. A child's health or not, is not based on bf'ing alone. If it were: children in 3rd world countries would be bullet proof by now.
If you're suggesting that breastfeeding and good health are merely correlates, and that parents who breastfeed just happen to take better care of their children in other ways (which is the real deciding factor), I'd have to see some documentation. As they didn't determine breastfeeding helps prevent illness by conducting correlational studies. They know what's IN breast milk; they've examined it and learned what it specifically does.
No one's saying that breastfeeding makes children invulnerable to illness or bad health. But it's pretty much common knowledge that it does more in the beginning stages of life to ward off illness as it carries natural antibodies to do just that, plus it is more easily digested than formula. Of course, in a couple years, there may be little difference between a child who was breastfed and one who wasn't. So it isn't the one RIGHT way to feed your child, but it is the best in the beginning.
They do have 'cover-ups' where a women can drape a cover over her breast and the baby while feeding. There is certainly nothing wrong with that and it shouldn't be an issue where anyone should take offense to breast feeding as long as there is proper modesty shown by the mother.
And I don't care if a woman works, or walks down the street. As long as there is proper modesty shown.
I really have no interest in seeing the feeding process and certainly don't want to while I'm eating. This is not something to share with the world, we really could care less.
I also think it a little extreme that a store be expected to add a feeding station.
Oh this is so ironic. You cannot stomach seeing the "feeding process" while YOU are eating. How about if no one wants to see YOUR feeding process?
You can say it's natrual, healthy for a baby, etc and that's all true but sex, pooping, peeing, etc is all natural and it's not appropriate to do it in public. I think anything that's generally considered a private thing makes some people uncomfortable seeing it in public. Some women comment that if there's no other area they dont have a problem with it but if there is use it alot of women dont want to have a discussion with their children about that issue right on the spot in the middle of the mall when they see it.
I find it telling you equate breast feeding with defecation.
Good for the La Leche club. I'm behind them 100%. Whatever demented notions people harbor about a womans body functioning as God intended need to get the hell over themselves or hide in their house. I'm not willing to wear a burqa to pacify screwy idiots or robo cop store managers at any stage of my life. They're free to evict half the species from their stores and this nation if they're that hell bent.
Frankly, women with a lick of sense in their heads might realize they never had anything to lose when they're taxed without representation and laws enforced against them minus legitimate citizenship in a nation they were born in.
HA! I want a ban on megalomaniac males and their masochistic evangelical enablers!!
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