World Breastfeeding Week and showin support to ALL moms no matter how they feed

Re: World Breastfeeding Week and showin support to ALL moms no matter how they feed

• absolutelymaybe member

  August 2014

  That is a really interesting article. It's weird, because I see tons of articles about not shaming women who breast feed, but I've never actually been in a situation or heard of a situation (personally) where a woman is shamed from breast feeding. All I hear are women shamed when they FF or when they can't BF. 

  
  

  
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• Maelara member

  August 2014 edited August 2014

  absolutelymaybe said:

  That is a really interesting article. It's weird, because I see tons of articles about not shaming women who breast feed, but I've never actually been in a situation or heard of a situation (personally) where a woman is shamed from breast feeding. All I hear are women shamed when they FF or when they can't BF. 

  
  

  
  Unfortunately, I've seen shaming on both sides. N was FF because I couldn't BF and I felt that shaming pretty hard. Lot of people around here believe BFing should be done in private or at least covered up. I'm all for a woman doing what she needs too. No choice is black and white and I'm so glad there is support here for both choices. If you are feeding your baby formula of breast feeding, you are making a good choice.

  
  

  
  

  ETA - when I say here the first time, I mean my local community. The second time I mean this board. Word fail!

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• dr_pr member

  August 2014

  I've never seen anyone shamed for BF either--like @absolutelymaybe said, it's usually the FF-ers who get the shame.  As someone who needed to supplement with formula due to undersupply, it made me feel like crap that I couldn't EBF, and a lot of my Facebook "friends" just didn't understand that I legitimately tried and it just didn't work.  I feel sometimes like the pendulum has swung too far in the BF direction--yes, it's "best," but not to the point where we need to shame people who can't (or won't) do it!

  
  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  

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