Are you upset over cover photo of the August issue of "BabyTalk" of a nursing baby and Mothers breast?

Answer 1

the book generally goes out to women and nursing is a very natural thing what's there to be offended at. you wouldn't ask if it was a bottle, the baby is just eating and it doesn't really show anything anyway.

Answer 2

Oh brother! Good Lord, no!

Why should I be?!

As a man, I find nothing overtly sexual about a mother nursing her child.

I responded to a similar question from another woman in this forum. She lamented that her friend sometimes chose to breastfeed in the presence of her husband. The woman didn't appreciate this behavior. I told her of my experience as a volunteer reader for the Children's Museum of Denver and my work as a professional face painter, work which has put me in several situations where I've been present when many a mother chose to suckle her son or daughter. It never has occurred to me that I should stop them. I knew they all were doing something that was both beneficial and necessary for their child. Can you imagine me telling a mom with two or three kids in tow on a hot sunny day that she can't nurse in my tent while I paint the face or arm of one of her other children? I can't.

I really don't understand people's prudery around nursing mothers. Get over it! I can tell you this, I've never stopped what I was doing at the time, whether it was painting a face or reading to a large audience of people, to ogle a mother's bare breast. In fact, women have been very discreet around me and because I haven't paid close attention, I can't remember a time when I actually saw a mother bare her breast to me, though I suspected what they were doing in my presence. Still, I've seen many naked breasts in my lifetime and I've never been turned on by a mother suckling her baby.

Gee whiz, people, there are more important things to worry about in life!

Answer 3

If it were on the cover of GQ I'd be concerned. As it is, it's on a magazine geared toward mothers of infants. I don't think anyone getting Baby Talk would look at it as a negative thing. Anyone that has been anywhere near a gynecologists' office or a pregnancy clinic or remotely knows anything about pregnancy is well aware that breastfeeding is part of the whole pregnancy ordeal - not only after, but before when your boobs are swollen like coconuts. >_<

Answer 4

ChunkyChick's response is very disconcerting and insulting. I am a nurser of an 8month old,and I've nursed three other kids. To be frank, I am offended by bottle feeding, as formula is not the very best you can give to a precious new life. I know it's a mom's choice, however, how can you downgrade someone for giving their newborn a gift that protects them for the first year of life plus extra IQ points, etc..... I wish that people would loosen up and realize that God gave us breasts, not for sexual purposes per se, but for feeding the gifts of children that He gives us.

Answer 5

Nursing a baby is the most natural thing in the world. Who could be upset of something like that. For gods sake it's just a boob and a baby having lunch. No big deal....

Answer 6

Yes, I'm horrified. How dare that woman do what's natural and use her breasts for their intended purpose by breastfeeding her baby!? Shame on her. She should just slap a bottle nipple onto a Corona and give that to her baby!

Seriously, I haven't seen it yet, but I've heard about it, and no, I'm not upset. People need to get their minds out of the gutter and stop looking at breasts as playthings for their husbands, or sexual objects. That's not why we have them.

Answer 7

No! I thought it was *beautiful* and I *loved* the way you can tell the baby is looking at the mother's face. What eyes!

The woman who complained is CRAZY! Would she rather he learn about breasts from Penthouse than seeing a baby doing what is natural?! You see LESS in that picture than you would in a skin mag anyway.....no nipple! (Less than Janet Jackson showed, LOL!)

chunkychick73 & fordkiller - I feel very sorry for your children. NOT just because you refused to nurse them but because your hang-ups about the human body will affect them for the rest of their lives.

Answer 8

I hope I never come across it. I never want to see it. yuck. I never breast fed my son cuz the thought of breast feeding makes me uncomfortable. By a pump and use it when you go out. Animals have to use the mammal nipple. Oh animals are bottle fed when adopted. eww makes my stomache turn. the kid has no choice but the mother does.

Answer 9

Well women have P*ssy's too, now we don't go puttin' them on magazine covers, Oh, wait yes they do. I don't care-I don't want to see it either way.
And there's a big difference between a bottle and a boob, for Gawd sakes.
~~~A day later...
The last thing I have is hang-ups. Don't judge me unless you have SEEN what I have, not all women are discrete. KMA

Answer 10

IT IS A NATURAL THING.!!!THAT IS WHY GOD GAVE WOMEN BREAST WITH ALL THE FAT CELLS...IF ANYONE IS TROUBLED BY IT, THEN THEY SHOULD JUST IGNORE THE COVER AND GROW UP!