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posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday August 24 2016, @03:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the mmmmmmmm-lunch! dept.

In 2013, 81.1 percent of U.S. mothers said they started out breast-feeding their baby. That's up from 75 percent in 2008, and 70 percent in 2000, according to the CDC.

[...] 52 percent of U.S. mothers said they were still breast-feeding their infants when the babies were 6 months old, and 30 percent said they were still breast-feeding when the babies reached 1 year.

How should society handle breastfeeding in public and the workplace? Should there be any restrictions on the age of the child?

Breastfeeding has obvious benefits for a child's development, but breast milk is also a fluid of the body that can carry disease.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mum-still-breastfeeds-daughter-aged-4881835

http://www.livescience.com/55846-breast-feeding-mothers-united-states.html


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 24 2016, @04:53PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 24 2016, @04:53PM (#392658)

    1. If you don't like seeing someone breastfeed, look somewhere else.

    And the corollary to this is if you breastfeed in public, don't expect me to avert my gaze.

    The issue in my mind isn't what you do, but that you demand special treatment for based upon some nebulous social good (it couldn't possibly that women are self-serving).

    Same goes with taking an hour off from work during the busiest times to pump.

    My work had to remodel a room at enormous costs so ONE girl could milk herself in private (under threat of lawsuit).

    We don't even have sprinkler system in case of fire.