Should a mother use a blanket to cover up while breastfeeding?
Covering yourself up when you breast-feed in public, I think that is just a really personal choice. I think that there are a number of women who choose to do that for their own self. They are little shy. I think there are women who would just as soon not cover up, but they sense that the people around them are uncomfortable, and so they will cover up And there are some women who will say, the hell with it. I am feeding my baby. Rough break. Deal. Deal with it. And they say that to each other in the class. I just don't care and I nurse anywhere I want. Rough break, I do not care. And others that go, it just depends on where I am. I had a mom who felt that way, but she was a musician and she had to go to meetings, and they were all men. So she did take this little cover-up that we sell a lot of. A lot of women will carry this kind of a little thing in their bag so that they have the option. It depends on where they are and what they are doing. And if they need to exercise that option, they will pull their little discrete cover-up out of their bag and put it on. Otherwise they are just nursing. And they love certain tops. Our most popular selling top is a camisole that is done for nursing. Because then not only do you pull down a flat, but there is a banding here that makes you covered right here. But you are covered clear to your waist, where when I was a nursing, I had to pull everything up, so my whole backside was open. And that was not very comfortable. It was kind of cold and breezy. But it was also like, she is nursing, she is nursing, she is nursing. So I love the stuff that are available to moms today. Because they nurse without a cover up and still be somewhat discreet, and they are just loving it. But occasionally, I am always taken aback. We will have a mom at the pump station at the group, who is covered up. And I just figure, well she needs to do that. And that is fine. And there are some cultures that prefer not to have their breasts showing. So I think we have to be respectful. We have learned a lot about cultural differences and what is normal for them and what is not. So, we have to learn more about that, and be respectful of that.
