by Laura
Crichton
 I
have been a strong believer in breastfeeding wherever and whenever! My
older children were breastfed on hillsides, beaches, trains, planes as
well as the usual shopping center or coffee shop.
I breastfeed while alone or with friends or family and in open view of
the public. I believe I breastfeed discreetly but proudly. Usually, if
I'm alone while breastfeeding in public I will think of comebacks to
negative comments that I might be confronted with. Sometimes I come up
with witty retorts, and sometimes my mind is just blank and I'm afraid
I'd just be completely dumbfounded!
However, even though I'm well-prepared most of the time with an answer
to someone's negative comments, I have never had to deal with anyone
even giving me so much as a dirty look!
One day, I thought I was in luck! An elderly man from a nearby table
at the food court that we were lunching at approached my table. I
furiously tried to come up with one of my comebacks as I felt my face
grow a shade of hot pink. How dare he feel he can share his opinions
with me!
You can imagine how I felt when the dear old man put his hand on my
shoulder, looked into my eyes and said "What a wonderful thing it
is to see you breastfeed that beautiful baby. There should be more of
it!"
I was dumbfounded!
Laura Crichton
South Australia
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