society needs to accept breastfeeding

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Society needs to accept breastfeeding By Cathy Bein, Silvis

What a sad, mixed-up world we live in! It’s okay to use breasts for every sexual and commercial reason, including most recently selling shakes and fries, but it’s not okay for a woman to be seen breastfeeding her baby. It’s okay for a child to see all the cleavage that’s the norm today, but it would be too shocking for that child to see a baby breastfeeding.

Wouldn’t it be nice if there were so many babies breastfeeding in public that nobody even noticed? Wouldn’t it be nice if society’s anti-breastfeeding mentality didn’t sabotage so many mothers’ good intentions of using their breasts in the way God intended by giving their babies the best nutrition possible?

Just think — lower infant mortality, obesity, and diabetes, less breast cancer, and fewer cavities; just a few of the benefits of breastfeeding. What kind of impact would this have on our health care dollars?

Cathy Bein

Silvis