I always wondered how a baby would've gotten the entire nipple and areola into his/her mouth. Now I know. The baby would not have and there would've definitely been areola display if I had the opportunity to NIP.
Post by curbsideprophet on Jul 4, 2015 1:47:25 GMT -5
At least she admits at the very end that she does not get it. Because despite saying she got it it numerous times it was fairly obvious she does not get it.
I don't think most nursing moms are trying to give anyone a show. They are just trying to feed their child.
I am definitely not someone who is comfortable with nudity in general (well, mostly for myself), NIP is so not a big deal at all. And now that I have my own kid, even less so.
I have no problem with my son or husband being exposed. That's just ridiculous. At least 4 women have nursed in my home in the last year. I think my husband politely averted his eyes, but that's about the most show that was made of that.
I don't think I would unfriend over this, but it would bug me. There have been a couple articles written in response to this piece, so if I was feeling feisty I might post one.
I am not modest and have never been modest I bought a nursing cover and my good friend laughed at me, because she knew I would never use it.
Nursing Max in public was an adventure, because I usually had Ada with us, so if I wasn't nursing somewhere contained, then I was nursing and chasing at the same time.
Lil Kim was on television for heavens sake and Diana Ross jiggled her boob. But feeding a baby is the end of the world? The people fixing the roof were yelling 'fuck' that and fuck this which I could hear in my house. But feeding a baby is your hill to die on? Okay.
Everyone has seen a boob before. Everyone. Either their own, their moms or their wife's or if they are very alone - some crazy unreal boobs on the internet. Your child will not be scarred for life. Well maybe when they realize that real boobs don't look like Pamela Anderson's. It shocked me for sure.
Yea on the airplane ride home, I was nursing my 14 month old and she would pull off and look around and then come back...basically, my nipples were out all over the place. A big FU to anyone who cared about that because her nursing was WAY better than her screaming!
For me the choice was to nip and chance someone seeing my nipple or have Ds scream and fuss and draw a ton of attention to us. Most people would prefer a quiet baby no?
I don't really understand the pearl clutching over this.
I rolled my eyes at most of this, but I cracked up re: "I don't want my husband to see that." I highly doubt this woman bans her husband from seeing R rated movies, many of which have naked breasts for purely sexual, non-feeding purposes. But seeing a woman breastfeeding is going to turn her husband on and end their marriage. Nothing fucked up about that.
Before I had kids I literally never noticed someone NIP in my life. Now I notice it because I know what I'm looking at. People waste a lot of energy getting worried about something that seems to happen extremely infrequently (the massive boob overexposure, not the NIP)
Me neither. Shortly before getting pg with ds1, I went to visit my aunt, and my cousin was in the living room holding her sleeping newborn. I chatted with her for a good 10mins before I realized the baby was eating, not nursing.