{"id":405,"date":"2006-08-10T13:03:40","date_gmt":"2006-08-10T18:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/2006\/power-to-the-mamas\/"},"modified":"2006-08-10T13:15:48","modified_gmt":"2006-08-10T18:15:48","slug":"power-to-the-mamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/2006\/power-to-the-mamas\/","title":{"rendered":"Power to the mamas"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was an article this week in the _Chicago Tribune_ about breastfeeding rights. I have heard about people who fight for their right to nurse in public. I have (thankfully) never encountered such a confrontation myself — but I’m outraged on behalf of those who have been hassled! <\/p>\n

(The article, “Moms have the right, but public still frowns”:http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/chi-0608070193aug07,1,933551.story, requires registration (albeit free) at the Tribune site.)<\/p>\n

\"Nursing<\/p>\n

p{color:gray}. Photo: Yes, Ann is brazenly nursing Lucy here, right on a public Chicago beach.<\/p>\n

Allison recently “pointed out”:\/news\/2006\/babywearing\/#comment-577 the recent controversy about the nursing picture on the cover of a recent issue of _BabyTalk_ magazine. I guess I remember feeling a bit shy around nursing moms (before I became one), but I never felt *offended* by public breastfeeding. And now that I’m on the Nursing Mamas team, I try to encourage people not to worry if they get a glimpse of my breast here and there. My body feels much more functional than it ever did before.<\/p>\n

I’m especially saddened by statistics that indicate that race and class are factors in breastfeeding success. This isn’t totally surprising, as nursing requires a lot of time and support — even though it is “free.” Wouldn’t it be great to live in a place that is so supportive of breastfeeding that low-income kids could get all the health benefits it provides? It is terrific to see legislation being passed that helps mothers overcome obstacles to breastfeeding.<\/p>\n

\"What<\/p>\n

It is pretty interesting that something as personal as how you feed your infant can launch you into public debate!<\/p>\n

p{color:gray}. Photo: “What are you lookin’ at? No boobs here!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There was an article this week in the _Chicago Tribune_ about breastfeeding rights. I have heard about people who fight for their right to nurse in public. I have (thankfully) never encountered such a confrontation myself — but I’m outraged on behalf of those who have been hassled!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}