We should celebrate breast feeding. It’s literally the most natural thing possible and the fact that people are weirded out by it is, well, weird.

It’s LITERALLY the act of supplying life sustaining fluids to the next generation of human beings.

It’s the LEAST sexual thing a boob can do.

I think people who are weirded out by breast feeding are inherently self-oppressed. They are intimidated by boobs. They are secretly afraid of the fact that we have animalistic functions.

Sure, you say, but urinating is natural and we can’t do that on the public street.

You’re correct, but it’s also getting rid of waste and a personal activity. Feeding your child isn’t something that people should feel that they need to do in private.

If they use a double wide stroller, however, I’m not cool with that.

Below is an abridged account from a local blogger regarding a recent visit to a restaurant in downtown Bethlehem on Main Street. You can read the full account here.

After a hot day walking around the music festival in our town, my sisters, husband, friends and I decided to eat, with my two kids, at one of our favorite restaurants, Mama Nina’s. … Graeme had been such a trooper all day, but with the weather being a balmy 85-90 degrees, I had decided to step up the nursing schedule to make sure he remained hydrated.

… His head completely covered my nipple and, facing the restaurant, all anyone could see was the top of my breast. It was no more than a low cut shirt would have revealed. As we looked at the menu, a woman who worked for the restaurant came over and asked if I had a cover and said if I didn’t feel comfortable covering that I could go to the bathroom to nurse. I immediately threw a blanket over Graeme’s head, and he immediately threw a small fit over being stuffed under a blanket in the heat! As I wrestled with him, I looked down at my menu and caught the judgmental eye of a woman sitting at a table across from us. SOURCE: Decaffeinated Mama



Honestly, any time I have ever seen a woman nursing in public, I actually feel rude if I am making THEM feel uncomfortable.



Babies don’t give a shit if there are other people around or if some old lady is mad because her boobs are old and saggy and she has to look at some nice milk-filled boobs. Babies just want some goddamn milk.

Also, the last customer I want to piss off is a breast feeding mom. If she has no qualms breast feeding in public, she certainly isn’t going to have a problem telling everyone how you told her to cover up because someone was worried about side boob.

I’m glad that this blogger wasn’t afraid to come out and write about her experience. And, if the whole account is true, it’s kinda crappy to ask one of your patrons to go into the bathroom to nurse.

Not that this is completely a perfect comparison, but what if someone who was severely disabled was in the restaurant. Would you go over to them and ask them to eat in the bathroom because they were bothering other customers? Of course not, you’d be a freakin’ monster if you did that.

Let the damn baby eat and worry about your own spaghetti.