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13 months ago  ::  May 30, 2012 - 6:06PM #1
Girlchristian
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More breastfeeding controversy, moms.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/3....


The debate over nursing in public got a new layer recently, when photos taken on an Air Force base began to circulate online. In the series of tasteful professional photos showing beaming moms as they nurse their kids, one jumps out: the photo of two servicewomen with their uniform shirts unbuttoned and hiked up to breast-feed.


"A lot of people are saying it's a disgrace to the uniform. They're comparing it to urinating and defecating [while in uniform]," says Crystal Scott, a military spouse who started Mom2Mom in January as a breast-feeding support group for military moms and "anyone related to the base" at Fairchild AFB outside Spokane, Wash. "It's extremely upsetting. Defecating in public is illegal. Breast-feeding is not."

Comparing breast-feeding to defacating in public is ridiculous, IMO. Seems silly to expect military women to remove their uniform prior to breast-feeding. Thoughts?

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13 months ago  ::  May 30, 2012 - 7:31PM #2
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People urinate and defecate in uniform all the time. They're just not usually photoed while doing so.


Storm in a teacup, in my opinion.

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13 months ago  ::  May 30, 2012 - 7:43PM #3
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Breast feeding on an army or air force base? Something very incongruous about it.  A act of love and care in a uniforn and place designed for people who shoot each other.


 
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13 months ago  ::  May 30, 2012 - 9:15PM #4
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Class As or Class Bs, or ABUs?  A world of difference. 

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13 months ago  ::  May 30, 2012 - 9:21PM #5
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May 30, 2012 -- 6:06PM, Girlchristian wrote:

More breastfeeding controversy....


I can't understand why it's a controversy?

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13 months ago  ::  May 31, 2012 - 1:34AM #6
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May 30, 2012 -- 7:31PM, Ebon wrote:


People urinate and defecate in uniform all the time. They're just not usually photoed while doing so.


Storm in a teacup, in my opinion.




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13 months ago  ::  May 31, 2012 - 10:49AM #7
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Utterly ridiculous IMO.  Now, if they were breastfeeding their 5 year old on the cover of Time magazine, I could see the controversy.  People need to back off and let them be mothers.

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13 months ago  ::  May 31, 2012 - 11:17AM #8
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Breastfeeding is natural and healthy.
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13 months ago  ::  May 31, 2012 - 11:21AM #9
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May 31, 2012 -- 10:49AM, Cesmom wrote:


Utterly ridiculous IMO.  Now, if they were breastfeeding their 5 year old on the cover of Time magazine, I could see the controversy.  People need to back off and let them be mothers.





Unfortunately, it's other women that are attacking them. I don't understand why women feel the need to attack each other for their parenting choices. It happens on both sides of the breast-feeding controversy from the very militant lactation consultants that tell you that if you don't breast-feed or you use a pacifier sometimes then you're not being a good mom to the women that feel breast-feeding is 'icky' and criticize women for doing so or expect women to hide in bathroom stalls to feed their child.

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13 months ago  ::  May 31, 2012 - 11:32AM #10
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As long as it command supported and does not interfere with their ability to perform their duties throughout the day, there really is no controversy.  If their chain of command gives them the time then who cares what anyone else thinks.

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