It’s been a while since I posted on breastfeeding, but Radical Catholic Mom has a great post over at Vox Nova.  An excerpt:

In America, we still struggle with a woman openly nursing in public.  A few weeks ago, I was in public with my friend–a new mom–and every time she nursed she placed a blanket over her child’s head.  I asked her why she was covering herself and she said “It makes people so uncomfortable to see a baby connected to a female breast.”  She couldn’t have said it better.  In American culture, boobs are purely for sex so we really have a difficult time when we see an innocent child connected to that boob.  Some women I know so hate nursing their hungry baby in public, THEY DON’T DO IT!  They bring formula to Church with them.  How many Catholic women at Mass have I seen pop a bottle in their babies mouth when they are hungry?  Far more than seeing a nursing mom at Mass.

Gerald at Closed Cafeteria exhibited some of his ignorance (borne in part of the fact that he does not have any kids yet) with his comments, and of course the comments on the post are a mixed bag comprising those who say “breastfeeding is great and should be done unashamedly” to those who say “breastfeeding is okay as long as I don’t know it’s happening in my general vicinity.”