I felt way too bovine on the pump to do it around anyone but husband.

If you feel more comfortable covering up, by all means do it. You need to be comfortable. But you have a few things to consider when you expect or even politely ask a woman to cover up or move to another location to breastfeed. Let's start with the AAP recommendations:

*Also to add that it is not so uncommon to have a lot of a certain enzyme in your milk that means you cannot store it for very long without it going 'off'. Some babies don't care, and some act like they are being poisoned. If you feed directly from the source, the milk is fine... otherwise you would have to pump for…

No one wants to shove their boob in your face. No one is saying you have to be excited about seeing a woman breastfeed. These are complete straw man arguments. People just want to be able to feed their baby without being approached by a stranger or harassed and told they are being immodest. That's all. The majority of…

There are plenty of alternatives to just whipping out a breast in public - cover-ups, mother's lounges (many businesses provide these), and pumping milk before you leave the house are all good ones.

In case people are wondering why a baby might reject a breast in favour of a bottle: breasts are more work than a bottle. My nephew was a preemie, and at first my sister was insistent that she was going to breastfeed (along with him having a nasal feeding tube), but they got to the point where the only reason he was…

No one said you had to be happy and excited. You could down right hate it, but the point is, you don't have the right to walk up to people who are doing things that are legal and tell them that you don't like it. Your opinion is yours and you have a right to have it, but you don't have a right to impose that opinion…

I'm not uneducated, I'm not a prude, I haven't bought into the patriarchal bullshit.

This is going on in the United States as well. It's not as if Bolivia is in the wrong alone here. There are Old Order colonies in the U.S and they don't pay taxes, are often considered outside of the scope of local law enforcement, etc. Even if it is not codified into law (federal taxes are as of 1965),…

I knew that my comment would cause and shit storm, and it has. I have a right to my opinions just as everyone else here has theirs. I'm not anti-breastfeeding people!! For fucks sake. I'm not uneducated, I'm not a prude, I haven't bought into the patriarchal bullshit. I know babies squirm, I know that sometimes my…

Don't you know that we're always supposed to make choices based on how men will respond? Geez where have you been living, in the 21st century or something?

I stay at home with our kid (second one due in a month) in order to provide the most stable home life possible. My husband has a job with a schedule that changes by the week, sometimes requires him to work nights, and every year requires him to be gone for months at a time. He works his ass off. I work my ass off…

I don't know why people are so unwilling to acknowledge the societal benefits of childbearing. The fact that families find themselves increasingly unable to afford children is a serious problem, but the demographic and economic concerns get no traction in conversations about workplace flexibility or parental leave.…

I love Breaking Bad. It may be the best show on TV. I realize that I may seem hopelessly uncool by saying the following, but here goes:

I would have photo-edited the unsolicited penii into mock Frank Herbert novel cover art, but to each their own. Enjoy the calendar!

Yuup. All part of the fandom circle of life.

Then again, anyone who felt sorry for Snape's "wives" and sincerely hoped they would get a real life were kinda on to something.

Thank you so much for calling research of kid products and activities work. I honestly get so stressed out by those things and it is one of the hardest parts of being a mom for me. My husband, who is an otherwise totally supportive, involved, present, and wonderful father will casually ask me to find a swim class and…

I'm not angry at you, or anyone, really.

Funny that these guys, who are so quick to self-bill as "the smartest guys in the room" - who claim to be fully about the quants, the hard data, the crunching numbers, the hard truths, and that emotions get in the way of this process - will then say something completely asinine and factless like: