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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi OP!   I breastfed all four of my kids for at least a year.   I want to talk about something that [b]could have[/b] sabotaged my experience, but luckily i was able to overcome it.

Breastfeeding in public/with others around.
My mom was ADAMENT, that women should not breastfeed their babies in front of other people and certainly not in public!   This was actually very stressful during the first few weeks--people were coming over to visit and see the new baby, and he'd need to eat, and my mom would say "Go into your room and feed him!" It got LONELY in there!   I'd hear everyone else hanging out and chatting and laughing, and I was stuck in another room, trying to rush through the feeding.

If you are comfortable breastfeeding in front of others, don't let other people's ignorance force you into hiding!   You have the legal right to breastfeed your baby anywhere you are legally allowed to be.  And no, you don't "have to" cover up!  Most babies will try to move the cover anyway--because they want to look at their mom's face while they are nursing.

By all means, if you PREFER to breastfeed in private, or with a tent or other cover up--do what makes you most comfortable!   But don't feel like you HAVE to!

If you don't want to use a cover but still would like to be as modest as possible, you can practice at home in front of the mirror to see how different tops/positions will look while you are nursing.   Lifting a shirt up (from the bottom) will expose less of your breast than pulling it down or unbuttoning buttons.  They also make special tops for breastfeeding that makes it easier.

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This is good advice.  It took me some time to master just discreetly feeding the baby without having to go be alone in some other place.

Once you get comfortable with this breastfeeding is easy and convenient and efficient and free!  ( as long as you can produce enough).

I never had to bother packing up food and had fun taking infant wherever I needed or wanted to go.  Burns tons of calories too.[/quote]

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