Some breastfeeding ironies

I don’t want to hijack the thread about James Kim, so instead I’m posting in here and starting what would have been a clear hijack.

How awful that he did not make it. I too felt sickened to hear how this turned out. He sounds like a careful smart man who left a trail, did what he thought was best to save them and did not luck out.

The bitter side of me finds it ironic that people are talking about how Kati Kim breast-fed both of her children to keep them alive, yet that same lifesaving act would get her arrested or at least thrown out of at a huge variety of shopping malls and other public areas in this country. Thank god she was in the woods, so you know, nobody would be mortified. Imagine what would have happened if she were in, say, a Victoria’s Secret store, where breasts are apparently for oogling and not for…nursing with?

I find America’s convoluted sense of morality to be ironic, sad and embarassing in turns. See, Victoria’s Secret models have no functioning breasts. They don’t. Check out the catalogue. Not a nipple to be found anywhere. Obviously, to that company, boobs are about feeding a different kind of need.

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Speaking of ironies, the ad at the bottom of the page when I OP’d ?

" Make your love visible "

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I’m also shocked to learn that the man did not get out alive. He made some mistakes, but I won’t judge him because I might have made the same mistakes.

As to the breastfeeding issue, Granny had a good piece of advice to me when breastfeeding mine. Of course, she grew up in an age when breastfeeding was the norm. When she was a preteen, keeping house while the older folks were in the field, she would take her little brother to the field 3 times a day for her Mom to breastfeed him.

She told me, you can breastfeed discreetly anywhere. Just take one of your baby blankets and throw over your shoulder. Cover the baby and the breast. Works like a charm.

I’ve breastfed in a lot of places when folks probably didnt’ know I was doing it. Heh.

Thanks, Granny. :slight_smile: