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free of charge, in an intimate nurturing way yet we're told to either not do it or do it in private because it makes people uncomfortable. Is that because we allowed our consumer culture to convince us that breastfeeding is for savages or poor Third World women who can't afford the *better* stuff that's full of bovine growth hormone and pesticides? This would be the same culture that barely gives women any maternity leave to take care of her child and pushes the sale of formula and now breast pumps to get those women back to work.
One other thing that shocks me is the reaction to women who breastfeed their children until they're 5 or so. What's wrong with that?
I love seeing toddlers, of all ages, run up to their moms, lift up her top and have a quick drink before running off. It's a lot healthier than grabbing something full of sugar and chemicals that keeps the corporate machine going.
I think it's prudery and perversion that explains some of the reactions and that those reactions are deliberately encouraged. Take for example how a few weeks ago, people were outraged that Times had a magazine cover of a woman standing up to feed her toddler because it wasn't natural to suckle a boy toddler that long and it wasn't natural to do it standing up. A few are openly disapproving that it's not happening in dark rooms where their filthy minds won't have something to cluck over.
Excuse me? What's this Victorian attitude?
Beautiful Mayan women in my neck of the woods, openly breastfeed their toddlers all day, standing up even! The amazing thing is that these children don't cry. I've never heard a baby crying down here and they go with their mothers everywhere. All day long, they're strapped to their mother's back and they're the happiest, best adjusted children I've ever seen.
Nobody even bats an eye over it.
In order not to make your thread too picture-heavy for people with slower connections, I'll start a different thread of just pictures of beautiful Mayan women feeding and being with their toddlers. This is just the first one.
The rest are here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/11396452
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