Nursing

I believe that everyone is fully entitled to their own opinion about how to raise their own kids. I won't always agree with it or even like it, but shy of real abuse, they have that right. I am very opinionated on that subject. One of those things I happen to believe in is breastfeeding. I'm a huge advocate of nursing your baby and giving them the benefits that come from that. And I'm one who believes that you should be able to nurse anywhere. We eat in public...the car, the store, schools, parks, and restaurants... so our infants should have that right as well. Now, I'm not the type that goes around shouting all about the rights of the nursing mother, but then, I think it's because I don't have to. I've never been confronted about nursing my babies, but I've heard stories about my friends and family being judged by other people for nursing their children out for the world to see. Anyway, this blog has a point. Yesterday I was at Walmart around Annie's bedtime. She was starving and we weren't leaving any time soon. So I sat in the fabric section and nursed Annie in attempt to keep her happy until we left. This is something I do all the time. A lady walked by and praised me for my action. This isn't something you hear very often. She told me that when she moved to Virginia about twenty years ago, nursing in public was considered indecent exposure and you could be sent to jail for doing it. She and many other women marched Richmond's capital and sat on the steps nursing their babies. They got that ridiculous law changed. So I pay tribute to the women before me that made it possible for me to nurse my baby when I need to without fear. I am so very grateful to you!