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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, if it makes you feel any better and maybe give you a laugh, I am married to  man from Western Europe from a country where any nudity is no big deal.  So with DC1 we are over in that country visiting, introducing the baby, and I am still trying to get the hang of breast feeding and using a cover.  We are in a garden and the baby wants to eat and I am trying to go by myself to have some privacy in a corner to make it all calm so the baby will nurse.  And suddenly over comes my DH's grandfather who yells "why are you hiding this baby? You and the baby must be free. It is a beautiful thing for a mother and baby to join this way, we must all pay respect". And he yanks off my cover and tells everyone to come over to see and I have to nurse in front of 10 of my husband's relatives as they all hover over me, my boobs, and my baby, including my husband's grandparents, three of their elderly friends, my FIL, my MIL, my BIL, my sil and 2 other people I don't know.  It was like so bizarre.   [/quote]

It is a beautiful thing! I hope you can see now why people from some parts of Europe have no issues with nudity, which is often interpreted in the US as being promiscuous. But, it really is not in many parts of Europe. Many of my friends from Europe, find US covering their babies on the beach or at the pool, and little toddler girls wearing top and bottom bikinis, insane.  Kids will swim nude until 6 years old, and many adults will do the same.  I know this from first hand experience in Norway. People are nude in the huge park in Oslo during summer months, regardless or age or gender.  My American DH was quite keen on going to this park!! But, OP has different issues than this, she has insane MIL, not the whole country one way or the other.[/quote]

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