When my almost 6-year-old daughter plays with her dolls she nurses them when they get hungry or fussy. Funny because that’s what I do when my twin boys get hungry or fussy. I’m not posting this to make any non-breast feeding mammas feel bad or say that I’m superior because of my choice to breastfeed. I’m just really excited about the fact that my kids find the act of breastfeeding as such a normal part of our family life. Our neighbor’s kid came over and stared in horror as I nursed one of my babies. She stood wide-eyed and asked me “WHAT are you doing?” I realized that she had never seen a mother nurse her baby. I found this extremely sad and alarming. Any baby doll you purchase in the store comes with a bottle. Remember all the outrage the breastfeeding baby doll from Spain caused? Why? What’s the big deal? My kids would find nothing controversial or sensational about a baby doll that nursed. They would look at a baby doll that comes with a bottle the same way. Both are ways to feed a baby. Bottle, breast, or both. It’s crazy to me that women need to fight to protect their rights to nurse in public. Friends have been told that they should cover up or that what they were doing is disgusting. Really? Feeding a baby is disgusting? Where the fuck did our society go wrong? Our bodies were made to birth and feed babies. I could go on for ever ranting but I won’t at this moment. I just wanted to share the joy I had this morning watching my girls feed their dolls.
i distinctly remember being the “weird” kid in preschool who breastfed my babydoll. oh, NJ. also –
http://www.etsy.com/listing/69639216/pro-breastfeeding-nursing-boob-crochet
Thank you fr thuis. I had a friend tell me once that it as disgusting to breastfeed… hile I as. Breastfeeding. I can still remember ho much that hurt me and shocked me. This post says it all. I hope to teach my daughter that breast feeding is just as natural as changing a diaper, and I feel our sciety has a lot of nerve looking at it as unnnatural.
My three year old does this too! So cute! And I, too, hope she sees breastfeeding as natural for down the road. Good stuff!