The controversy of breastfeeding?

It says a lot about the priorities in this country when the right to breastfeed needs to be supported by law. What kind of people are we in America? It's embarrassing when such an obvious and fundamental activity of life itself can be viewed as "uncomfortable" as this editorial claims Barbara Walters was made when she witnessed, horrors a baby being breast fed on an airline. Instead of getting mad at the mother why doesn't Babs try to help push for better accommodations from airlines to give breastfeeding mothers a quiet and private place on board to feed their babies instead of jamming us all in so tight we all risk our health to fly. That's a novel idea!

It's not just breastfeeding, we are all forced by the tightness of the cabins to witness all kinds of personal moments that would be better left for privacy!  There is literally no room to breathe without sucking up your neightbor's air too. To get out of an inner seat to the center aisle should require a blood test in case a accidental insemination! Let's get real here folks, it is pathetic that so many serious legal issues, such as the legitimacy of many aspects of the Patriot Act, will be pushed aside to deal with something that common sense should be capable of governing.

GLOBE EDITORIAL A boost for breastfeeding August 13, 2005 INFANTS AND their mothers would be healthier if more mothers would breast-feed their babies. A Food and Drug Administration study of why women don't, or stop after a short time, found that a principal factor is their embarrassment over the reaction nursing causes when it is done in public. Changing that reaction in squeamish America will take time -- Barbara Walters riled nursing mothers recently when she said on TV that the sight of a woman breastfeeding near her in an airplane made her ''uncomfortable." A step in the direction of making nursing more routine is state legislation that would end the harassment that nursing mothers too often face. Massachusetts is one of about 12 states that lack a law spelling out that breastfeeding mothers cannot be charged with lewdness or other violations. Rarely, if ever, has a nursing woman in this state actually been arrested, but state Representative David Linsky of Natick says many women have been told to stop breastfeeding in malls, stores, or other facilities by policemen, private security officers, or store employees. Linsky has filed a bill that makes it clear that nursing violates no laws. In the Senate, Susan Fargo of Lincoln has filed a bill that both establishes a woman's right to breastfeed in any public or private location where she has a right to be and addresses the problem that mothers have of being able to express their milk at their workplace for use later. Under her bill, employers could not stop a mother from expressing her milk during any authorized meal period or other break time. Moreover, employers would have to provide ''reasonable" unpaid breaks for expressing, unless doing so ''would unduly disrupt the operations of the employer." Fargo would also have the state award companies with the designation ''mother friendly" if they go so far as to provide nursing women with accessible private locations other than a bathroom stall for nursing and make available an electric outlet, wash basin, and refrigerator space for milk storage. Children who nurse have fewer ear infections, less diabetes, lower leukemia rates, and are less likely to be obese than formula-fed children. Mothers who nurse have lower rates of premenopausal breast cancer than mothers who don't. The American Academy of Pediatrics says the United States would save $3.6 billion in annual health costs if all children were breastfed exclusively for the first six months and at least partially for the next six. Currently, almost 70 percent of mothers start breastfeeding their babies, but only 33 percent are doing so after six months. The rates for Massachusetts are slightly higher. Bills like Linsky's and Fargo's would help make nursing the right formula for children's health. © Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company

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Breast feeding does help with nutrients and the support of brain growth, which is something every mother should think about. The benefits for the nursing mom are just as good as they are for the baby. The hormones that are released during breast feeding will curb blood loss post delivery and help to shrink the uterus back to it's normal size

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