Public Breast Feeding Essays - Breastfeeding, Health, Midwifery

Public Breast Feeding As I was reading through my classmate's discussions board post, one of them had caught my attention the most because it has become something so controversial. Women breastfeeding has become something wrong to do in public places apparently because for people it something disgusting to do. I find men only saying that they find women breastfeeding disgusting and it is because they do not find that attractive and it is especially young males that think like that because they are not mature enough to see the importance of breastfeeding your child. There was a YouTube video I had watch before of a group of students did a study with two women sitting in a public bench in the mall. One of the women was breastfeeding her kid and the other was a woman wearing a small shirt that showed a lot of cleavage. They were sitting right next to each other and a few men approach to the women breast feeding her kid and started to yell at her calling her disgusting for doing that in public. The women that was showing her cleavage saw that she was getting yelled at by the people she came into her defense and told them if it was ok for to show her cleavage, but it is not ok for a mom to feed her kid. The people stood quite and wouldn't saying about the situation that was happening, but rather say that what the mother was doing is something wrong and she should be doing that in private and that her showing cleavage is ok because it is nothing wrong with that. It sounded like they didn't have any reason on why it was wrong for her to do that. There will be people that you will encounter that will say that breastfeeding is something disgusting but some of them will say that what she's doing is right.