NIP Uncovered

I am an advocate of EBF (exclusive breastfeeding) and many other attachment parenting practices, however, I have noticed a trend amongst women which I find disturbing.  I have absolutely no problem with women NIP (nursing in public).  I agree that having an EBF baby should not be a prisson sentence which leaves a mother confined to her home, or makes her have to run to the bathroom to feed her child when out in public.  However, why is it that having a baby automatically makes it okay for women to expose their breasts in public?  Why are nursing covers so offensive to some women?  Why can't you feed your baby without flashing the world?  Feed your baby anytime, anywhere, yes, by all means, but why not do so modestly?  I see women pull an entire breast out and leave it dangling in the air before preparing the baby to latch, or long after the baby has finished.  Why?  Even if you need to see what's happening to help your baby to latch on, why not cover up the exposed parts while the bub is suckling?

I firmly believe that there is a time and place for everything, and that includes where and when to expose your boobs.  Say what you like, the FACT is that women's breasts serve TWO purposes.  Yes, one of them is to provide nourishment for infants, but the other IS SEXUAL.  Argue all you like, seeing exposed (.)(.) can sexually arouse men (and perhaps some lesbian women), and it will make some heterosexual women as well as those who prefer not to see the private body parts of others feel very uncomfortable.

If you would not ordinarily walk around topless in front of your father, brothers, grandfathers, nephews, male cousins, in-laws, friends' husbands, co-workers, and complete strangers,  then I don't think that it is approriate to expose your breasts in front of them just because you need to feed your baby, when you can clearly do so before the aforementioned people in a discreet manner.

I am not suggesting that any woman has to go to the extreme and not breastfeed at all, or not breastfeed in public, or lock herself away in a bathroom to feed her child, nursing a baby can be done anywhere, anytime, without anyone passing by noticing.  Call me old fashioned, but that's just the way I feel!