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Ro
Lv 5
Ro asked in Pregnancy & ParentingNewborn & Baby · 10 years ago

Why do people think women should cover up while breastfeeding?

I read so many questions about nursing in public and most women seem to think it's fine, but you MUST use a cover. What's the difference between expecting a woman to use a cover and expecting her to excuse herself? You're still limiting her ability to nurse her baby properly.

When my daughter was a newborn a cover was difficult to use because I needed to do breast compressions while she nursed. Also, we were both still figuring out what we were doing. Once we both had it figured out she was too distracted by me trying to cover her up to nurse properly and it became futile.

At this point I wonder why I ever bothered. I'm only trying to live my life and feed my child. Why do I have to cover it up like it's shameful? Very little of my breast is exposed and I am not trying to be an exhibitionist.

I'm just curious why people find it so offensive for a woman not to cover up. Also, I wonder if they realize how difficult covering up can be.

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  • 10 years ago
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    Well coming from a person who does not have children, I think people want women to cover up because it makes some people squeamish. Although I don't find it offensive even though, I do get a bit uncomfortable when a women whips out her boob and starts brest feeding. Even though I feel uncomfortable , I don't think women should cover up. Its natural!

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  • 10 years ago

    Rusty Plastic- it's not illegal for your breasts to be out dummy. It is only illegal for a woman's nipple to show in public. If someone is nursing then the nipple is covered. Personally I don't use a cover to nurse because honestly the babies head blocks more of the boob then most girls shirts do. If girls can walk about with their breasts popping out their tops then I can have my breast hanging out as well.

  • 10 years ago

    If you don't cover up, then people will gradually get used to it, and then it won't be an issue anymore.

    My husband doesn't want me to use a cover when our baby is born, but I'm naturally a very modest person, so I don't know if I'll feel comfortable so exposed. I guess we'll see.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    Then don't go out in public when you know feeding time is going to be happening.

    Tell me why there should be exceptions to when a woman covers her breasts in public. Why is it alright to have them uncovered sometimes and not at other times, and how do you walk that fine line? And don't say it is only natural because lots of things are only natural but are regulated from being done in public. Either make it so that it isn't illegal for all women to be bare chested in public and deal with what that means, or except that allowing it in some cases makes it hard to regulate and so should be banned entirely.

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  • 10 years ago

    Our society has turned the breasts into a sexual thing. In other cultures, women walk around with their bare breasts hanging out and no one gives a $h!t. It's all about the culture. It's unfortunate that we have to hide something so completely natural because our culture has perverted it.

  • blanga
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    definitely it form of is stressful to hide with a blanket for some individuals. I had to apply a nipple take care of for the 1st month and a nil.5, and my daughter replaced into continually unlatching and slipping off, and that i had to maintain re-attaching her. I spent the extra suited element of that month flipping a blanket back and forth each few seconds, then it might fall off my shoulder, i might positioned it back, my daughter might unlatch, the blanket might fall off into her face back, i might positioned it back, then flow it to re-latch her, etc. Then, as quickly as she began being able to extra suited administration her arms she might merely yank the blanket off herself and shriek. So, of path, I went out and spent like $40 on a nursing conceal with a strap and a few fancy versatile boning so i might desire to make certain what i replaced into doing. Used the ingredient two times. I stay in So Cal and it gets so warm and that i might nurse and my daughter may well be flushed with warmth afterwards, from being under the conceal. And there replaced into lots fabric, the ingredient exceptionally lots got here all the way down to my knees. So then for a on an identical time as i might bypass out to the motor vehicle. That replaced into exciting, enable me allow you to comprehend. Getting up in the midst of dinner and sitting in the motor vehicle on my own. back, So Cal and all, so I had to coach the motor vehicle on and deplete gas idling in the vehicle parking zone so i might desire to have A/C and not possibility hyperthermia for my newborn. So i do no longer conceal myself anymore. i'm no longer likely to bypass to that super of lengths using fact somebody does not desire to make certain the right comparable volume of boob they might see with my authentic on in any case.

  • 10 years ago

    I can't stand that smell of dried milk or whatever it is it makes me gag. especially if the woman is ugly

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