damn it

i started a support group called iBreastfeed. here is my latest post that i wrote in my group. share this, please.

"OK...so i love and watch the show Parenthood on Thursday nights at 10. seriously, LOVE the show.

tonight, if you didn't see it, the new mommy on the show was with her family in a restaurant eating and was trying to feed her fussy newborn. the scene, of course, was exaggerated a bit, but it was still real life. the baby always wants to nurse when we are eating. 

so, on the show tonight, baby wouldn't latch and kept crying and other customers were complaining and the mom (and her family) were asked to LEAVE the restaurant. now i know this is just a show. BUT they put stuff in shows that people can relate to. they put the mom who is just tired and wishes the baby would just latch like a good little baby, like we see in the magazines and eat and coo and smile and just be tickled pink, in the show on purpose. because it's motherhood. and they are in a restaurant and trying to nurse at the table, where the babe and mother should sit to feed and NOT in a bathroom and the manager asks them to LEAVE. excuse my french but THIS SHIT HAPPENS all too much. people are asked to leave because they are breastfeeding-a perfect act of NATURE-and people have to whine and complain? 

really? REALLY? are we going to let the world do this to our natural ability to care for a child without bottles and formula and all this other CRAP?? we are born to feed, ladies. you give birth, you feed. you nurture. 

i was really happy with the scene in the show. it raises awareness. the breastfeeding mother's husband threw a fit and supported her. i was on my breastfeeding advocate high horse until i starting reading comments on the internet about the scene. women writing in and saying "geez, if the breastfeeding lady would have just went out to her car, none of this would have happened". or "all the lady had to do was go outside and feed the baby and make it stop crying and it would have all been fine".

REALLY? Am I so naive that I thought all women stood together and supported a woman's right to feed the baby? I mean CRAP. 

I AM SHAKEN BY WHAT THIS WORLD, NO NO NO, WHAT THIS CULTURE HAS BECOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and i need you, EACH AND EVERY 343 MEMBERS of iBreastfeed to stand tall, to stand proud for what you know. what you believe. educate yourself. believe in yourself and help me CHANGE THIS WORLD, this place that is uncomfortable with NATURE itself, to make it a better, more supportive place for our children.

hallelujah, where's the wine..."

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