This beautiful spoken word by Hollie McNish, really hit home for me. For the most part I have chosen to breastfeed sans nursing cover because I hate how this society has deemed that the only acceptable role for breasts is a sexual one. Women dancing around topless and completely exposed in a Justin Timberlake music video: totally fine, but a mother feeding her child in public: shameful and disgusting.
This must change. I’m all for modesty. In fact I believe modesty is empowering, but with that said, I do not believe a mother breastfeeding her child is in any way immodest. Breasts are meant to feed babies. This is their primary purpose and function. What’s truly disgusting is twisting them into something so over-sexualized that they basically reduce a woman to the summation of her parts.
Am I totally comfortable nursing Asher in public? No, not at all, far from it. But it comes down to the principle for me. I want to take a stand. My heart aches every time I hear a story of a mother being shamed for nursing, or asked to leave or to cover up. I feel like it shouldn’t be something we need to think twice about, or worry about or debate. So I choose to nurse my son without a cover with the hopes that one day this will become a none issue. Breast is best after all.
I am very glad that still more moms are very willing to breastfeed their child!
I totally agree!