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makes you uncomfortable?

Is it society’s taboos that should prevent breastfeeding in public, when pornography and any kind of sexual entertainment and nudity is very much alive and well, advancing by the year ?

By the way, what do you do when you get hungry?

Do you completely and fully understand the significant role a woman has as a MOTHER? (you have been raised by one).

When a mother runs to hide to feed her child, isn’t it the same when you enjoy your meal at the wonderful environment of a … “toilet"?

When people deny the rights of a breastfeeding Mother they reject women’s rights also, they make it harder for those elsewhere by legitimizing the prejudice of women, and societies prejudice against women. Breastfeeding is not just about the optimization of health. It is absolutely one of the key reasons for all women to stand up for their rights and a breastfeeding culture. Western culture is in many ways the seen as the global model, whether is to be for good or bad behavior, the message of supporting women and the solidarity of supporting women and the desexualization of breasts not only benefits breastfeeding culture and babies, but stands up against rape culture, misogyny and what I can only call modern day witch burning.

Although most doctors avoid saying so, out of fear of alienating some clients, formula-fed babies are generally less healthy than breastfed babies. The cognitive development of babies fed formula doesn't equal that of those who are breastfed. Breast milk protects against disease and promotes optimal brain growth. Formula does neither of these things. (Huggins 2007)

Manufacturers are unable to duplicate human milk and they continually experiment. As further explained by Kathleen Huggins in A Nursing Mothers Guide to Weaning, some have