I agree. The TIME picture doesn't help nursing mothers as a community; it hinders them. Instead of presenting a more normal, nurturing picture, they've put up something at the controversial fringe of the breastfeeding culture and polarized the debate.
It's unfortunate, at the very least. However, it's important to not allow that picture to cause an unnecessarily extreme reaction toward breastfeeding (including public) as a whole. TIME was being shocking on purpose. Most nursing mothers aren't shocking at all. They're just feeding their babies.
Bro Tenney told me the story of him and Tommy Craft preaching in Africa. The men were inside while the women were outside listening. After the preaching Tenney stayed inside to pray with the men while Craft went outside to pray w the women. He said Craft came back in red faced and told Tenney to look outside. There he said was a woman weeping and worshipping and praying, bare chested and a toddler suckling. So God can move even on a bare chested woman. However, we will discourage it during our services...
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When a newspaper posed the question, "What's Wrong with the World?" G. K. Chesterton reputedly wrote a brief letter in response: "Dear Sirs: I am. Sincerely Yours, G. K. Chesterton." That is the attitude of someone who has grasped the message of Jesus.
I nursed one of my babies at the ball park. When they are hungry they need to eat. Most people were not shocked, and they sure didn't have the nerve to say anything. I just covered up, it's not that hard. And it's so much more inexpensive than formula. Of course moms have to watch what they eat, and they need to drink a lot of water.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
I nursed one of my babies at the ball park. When they are hungry they need to eat. Most people were not shocked, and they sure didn't have the nerve to say anything. I just covered up, it's not that hard. And it's so much more inexpensive than formula. Of course moms have to watch what they eat, and they need to drink a lot of water.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
Peppers never bothered my babies. Dairy did...made me very glad I was nursing at the time instead of trying to find a dairy free formula. My experience avoiding dairy was much less stressful than the struggle to find the right formula I've seen friends go through.
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"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor, either we’ve got to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we’ve got to acknowledge that he commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition — and then admit that we just don’t want to do it."
-Steven Colbert
When our youngest child was a baby -- might say a very young toddler, I guess -- his big brothers thought they'd have some fun, and gave him a tiny taste of some very hot hot sauce. He recoiled, made the cute face you'd expect, scrunched up, etc. But then: he wanted more! He loved the stuff!
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
Breasting feeding can be good for the health of the baby. Breastfeeding in public should not be a crime. But breastfeeding should stop when the child is old enough to ask for it by name and/or drink from a tippy-cup without assistance.
Do you have any reasoning or scientific evidence for why breast feeding should cease at this point?
Because the American Academy of Pediatrics and World Health Organization would both disagree with you.
And if Moses' mother would have weaned him at that point, I can guarantee he wouldn't have remembered all she taught him about God.
Peppers never bothered my babies. Dairy did...made me very glad I was nursing at the time instead of trying to find a dairy free formula. My experience avoiding dairy was much less stressful than the struggle to find the right formula I've seen friends go through.
It did my oldest daughter, big time. Now she LOVES spicy stuff. I just didn't eat it with the others, but they all pretty much like spicy food too. I really hated giving up caffeinated coffee, though.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
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