What are the alternatives to breastfeeding in public?
Well some people would choose to carry a bottle of formula but we encourage women if they were going to a place where they really truly did not feel at ease with their breastfeeding to take a bottle of express breast milk with them. They could do that. They could. Wendy: Although people who have not breastfed and don't understand the process to them that is just an obvious and easy thing to do because they don't understand how it works. And a mother who chooses to take a bottle of her milk with her in public, she has to have pumped that breast prior, she has to keep it cold, she has to worry about warming it up if her baby doesn't like cold milk, and then there is her own discomfort. And people do not understand that breasts are not faucets that you can turn on and off. So if that mother goes an X amount of time without nursing or relieving her milk she gets extremely uncomfortable. And that can cause her health issues down the line. Corky: She could get plugged up and that could lead to metastasis. Wendy: It's not that easy. Corky: But there are times if a woman absolutely going somewhere where she absolutely felt she could not do this then, and I had that experience myself. I said, I said before I had my first child I will never nurse in public. And in two weeks I was nursing in public, I lived in Washington D.C. My mother was visiting. We went touring and I was nursing in public within two weeks. It was a very interesting and freeing experience for me.
