It amazes me that there's a controversy over public breastfeeding, that it can be considered disgusting.
The poll of 2,393 people found that 72% support public breastfeeding but a lower proportion felt it was acceptable in restaurants (57%) or on public transport (51%).
No. "We do however have to recognise that businesses have a responsibility to all of their customers, some of whom may well be made uncomfortable by public breastfeeding.
Notes left behind attacked Paris authorities for encouraging men to unzip and relieve themselves without cover in open public spaces – even though public breastfeeding still elicits scorn.
Notes left behind attacked authorities for encouraging men to unzip and relieve themselves without cover in open public spaces even though public breastfeeding still elicits scorn.
Pope Francis has become an unlikely advocate for public breastfeeding, by encouraging mothers to feed their babies in the Sistine Chapel.
If so, the news that one of the world's most newsworthy and photographed women isn't phased by public breastfeeding should be the perfect punctuation point.
And I get it: pictures of beatific celebrities breastfeeding their adorable children evoke ideas about "natural" motherhood and seek to end the shame that still exists around public breastfeeding.
"Matters like the taboo of the nipple in the 21st century, public breastfeeding, slut shaming, fat shaming, breast cancer awareness, body positivity, gender inequality, and censorship have found their way into mainstream discussion," she wrote on XO Jane.
The Breast Milk Baby may have a high price tag and an overdone concept, but in a world where people often hide behind Page 3 to avoid seeing public breastfeeding, anything that seeks to redresses the balance at an early age is to be welcomed, not scorned.
