Don't Be a Weaner

Don't Be a Weaner, originally uploaded by Stephanie A. Richer.

August 28, 2010.

After a woman was asked to stop nursing her baby at the Cost Plus in Orange, California, a friend of ehrs organized a "nurse in."

Here is my take, being the mother of two kids. Breastfeeding is fine. I think it can be done modestly in public, however. One woman told me that her chil does not like having her head covered while she is feeding - okay, but she can find a private corner to accomplish the task, it need not be in the middle of foot traffic.

As for toddlers - maybe to 3 or 4, but past that age, I think it is time for the "baby" to grow up. Mind you, a lot of children in the past were weaned at one because Momma's milk dried up with the next pregnancy. I heard one mother on the radio say EIGHT was still okay to breastfeed. Uh-uh . . . if little Octavius can read a menu, he can order from that!