Breastfeeding challenge 2007

Yesterday 54 local moms gathered at the manitoba legislative building to bring the normalcy of breastfeeding into the public eye. Many moms are feeling pressure to nurse in private, or being discriminated against and forced to nurse "elsewhere", but this is not right. The breastfeeding challenge each year is helping to bring awareness to the rights of nursing mothers and babies. Aside from the one incident at wal-mart when danno was newborn, I have only ever had positive feedback when I NIP, and I have done so all-the-time for the last 4 years. One time on the plane I was nursing andrew and the man next to me kept smiling and telling me how lucky a baby he was to get to nurse. He didn't see it often, but was always happy to see a mom nursing her baby. He was either a devoted daddy and lactivist, or a slightly perverse man. either way, it was positive PR for nursing lol. I loved being the nursing mama on flights. I took andrew on about 30 flights in his first year and he was always the happy baby. He never cried once and the other passengers would always comment on how sweet he was. You know that look when you get, boarding the plane with a baby? "Please don't sit near me!" ya, that look... I'd get that at the beginning and then the opposite look at the end of the flight. Another time, the guy next to me didn't even realize I had a baby on my lap until I was gathering our things when we had landed. It was a much different experience being a nursing mama on a delayed flight, or even a normal flight. the bottle feeding moms had a lot more trouble calming their kids, or even had run out of formula during an extended layover...Anyways, even through nursing burnout, I am happy to be a nursing mom giving my kids the best. Breastfeeding is normal, it's not embarrasing and I do not need privacy :)