very PROUD BFing mommy

 OD is pissing me off right now… I’m having so much trouble with my countdown up in the corner, every time I try to save it so it loads automatically and it won’t work. Grrrr.

Maybe it’s because I’m already in a mood about what I’m about to write about lol.

As if you couldn’t tell this is going to be about breastfeeding, so if you are put off by breastfeeding or anything… this is NOT the entry for you to read.

I don’t usually get caught up in the whole FB status thing but one of my friends posted that he took his son to the park and saw some woman breastfeeding her baby in public and he thought that was only something you saw on tv. Well I of course commented "good for her" and then a couple women post that there is something wrong with breastfeeding in public and that it should be done in private. Ok… maybe it’s just me but I was pissed. Mother’s bottle feed their babies in public all the time so why does breastfeeding have to be done in private behind closed doors? Breastfeeding is what boobs are for! That’s why women have boobs and men don’t, women were MADE to breastfeed. It is the natural and healthy way to feed your baby. I’m not against formula feeding mommys, I know that some women can’t breastfeed for medical reasons, some choose not to but there is no denying that breastmilk is better for babies, usually, because I know a few babies that were allergic to breastmilk, but USUALLY breastmilk is the best. Third world countries ask for donated breastmilk. Why? Because it is healthier and those babies need all the help they can get. Breastmilk banks charge about $5 an oz, why is is so expensive because it’s very healthy and no formula comes close. Why do you think companies are trying to push that their formula is "the most" like breastmilk? Because formula companies are afraid of losing business to the mother’s who realize that they have something that is free, that is really healthy right there on hand.

I just don’t get it. Why look down on us for doing what is best for our children? My son has been breastfed since day 1 short of the supplementing I had to do for 2 days because my milk wasn’t coming in. I was terrified that I was going to have to formula feed and I wasn’t ready, I had maybe 2 bottles and no formula except for some of the samples that I was given. I worked so hard to be able to breastfeed. It takes commitment, it takes work on both baby and mommy. Work to get latching right, work to get a schedule going, work to keep up with it and then people want to throw more work on us by looking down on us for BFing in public? If my son is hungry he will eat. I don’t care where we are, I don’t care what is going on, if my son is hungry I WILL nurse him. Don’t like it… don’t look at me. I cover up for the most part because I don’t want people giving me the evil eye for something that is natural. BFing is such a beautiful thing and I want to enjoy it so I cover but if it is 100* outside and I have to BF then I’m not going to make my son sweat to death under a cover for the sake of others.

BFing is natural. And maybe I see it that way because my mum BF all 4 of us so I saw her BFing all the time and it wasn’t weird for me. It was just the way things were. I’ve seen other mothers BFing in public when I was little and didn’t think anything of it, didn’t stare because it was the way of things. And on the FB status they kept going on and on about how women shouldn’t do that in public for the sake of children. I know some women just let it all hang on out and nurse their babies, I don’t do that, half the time when I nurse without a cover you can’t even tell because it looks like I’m holding a sleeping baby. When Nicholai got older it was easier to do it without the cover because he would pull at it and peep show everyone so it was easier to just go without the cover.

And then they started talking about how the only difference is one is breast and one is bottle. No. One is breastmilk and one is formula. To each mommy her own but I know that breastmilk is best so I worked to give that to my baby. There were times where I thought it wasn’t going to work. In the beginning it hurt so much because my poor nips weren’t used to it, they bled, they were sore, they hurt. It hurt to shower, it hurt to wear a bra and then my milk… ah! My milk came in with a vengence and I was so full all the time. BFing takes commitment! Why bash us for doing the right thing and working so hard to BF?

I just don’t get it.

I am a proud BFing mommy! I will BF my son where I want, when I need to. I am not ashamed of it. And we have the right to BF our children. So you know what…. if you have a problem with it you will just have to suck it up! I’ve been BFing 13 months and counting! Go me!!