28 Stunning Photos That Empower Moms To Breastfeed In Public

When Leilani Rogers was a breastfeeding mother, she was afraid to nurse in public. “I feared shame. I feared judgement,” she told The Huffington Post. “I had babies who did not tolerate being covered, and it wasn’t until my fourth baby that I worked up the courage to breastfeed openly outside of my house,” she added. “I found myself stuck in a train station while on vacation in San Francisco with a fussy baby and nowhere to hide,” the mom recalled. “So I took a deep breath and did what I had to do.” A decade later, Rogers has dedicated her life to helping other moms overcome their fear and pushing back against the stigma around breastfeeding in public. In 2014, she founded the Public Breastfeeding Awareness Project (PBAP) ― an initiative through which she showcases breastfeeding photography to raise awareness about the intolerance that nursing moms often face and to normalize the sight of nursing in public. “The main issue with nursing in public, I think, is that we are confused about the ‘appropriateness’ of it,” Rogers explained. “Appropriateness should have nothing to do with meeting a child’s needs. But with an excessive amount of focus on the sexual function of the female body, we don’t consider breastfeeding as a physiological need when we round the corner at the grocery store and find a breastfeeding woman standing right there. Instead, we rush to judgement over her ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news