Bless her heart, she can’t even feed one of her new born babies without causing a stink.  Have you heard about it?  She is on the cover of W’s November magazine and is apparently breastfeeding one of the twins.  It’s not a full frontal picture of her breast or even the baby on her breast.  She’s sitting with the opposite shoulder facing the camera and part of her breast on the opposite side is visible.  SO?

Have celebrities not worn less on the red carpet?  Look at some old pictures of Cher is you don’t think so.  What Angelina is doing in this picture is the most beautiful thing a woman can do for her baby.  She’s breastfeeding and not just hanging her boob out for everyone to see.  It’s crap like this stink that drove women away from breastfeeding.  Sure there are some that for one reason or another can’t breastfeed their baby.  Then they have to give them a bottle and that’s okay but breastfeeding is the way nature intended for us to feed our babies.

I will admit I think there is a time and a place and also a way to breastfeed.  No woman should just whip her breast out and feed her baby where ever she is.  If she’s in public, you can very discretely place a baby blanket over your shoulder and cover the fact that you are breastfeeding and most people won’t know at all.  Or if she’s entertaining at home with both men and women, she should excuse herself and invite the women to join her in the other room if they would like while she feeds the baby but that’s my opinion.

There has been countless into the benefits of breastfeeding.  Breastfed babies usually score higher in math, they have stronger immune systems and therefore, don’t get sick nearly as often and have less severity to when they do get sick.  So what’s the big deal here?  I think Angelina should be commended – not chastised!!

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   I a little old fashioned about babies and mothering. I agree that breastfeeding is good and can be done discretely. But a lot of young mothers are not discrete and they take their babies with them all over town to all kinds of events that are so unnecessary and it disturbs the adult patrons. I don’t like seeing babies in adult situations unless it is very necessary. Leave the babies at home.

   Comment by Wendy — October 21, 2008 @ 10:11 am

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   I agree with Wendy. There are too many babies out in strollers on the sidewalks of Las Vegas at midnight. Too many babies in fine restaurants and even in movie theaters. Give me a break – a baby is not going to enjoy a movie and bringing one into the theater disturbs the other people who paid good money to see AND HEAR a movie. Leave the babies at home.

   Comment by Adam — October 21, 2008 @ 10:13 am

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