Breastfeeding Room

June 24, 2009 — wilkinson4jesus

This is a picture I came across on the web and it made me laugh so I saved it to share with you. There seems to be something lost in the translation VS the picture.

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This would have been a better choice……
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Posted in Birth and Babies, Nursing and Cloth Diapers. Tags: . 7 Comments »

7 Responses to “Breastfeeding Room”

  1. Paula Says:
    June 24, 2009 at 9:39 am

    Hehehe!
    Actually, the same pic are used across the US, and those only have the English!!!!

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    • wilkinson4jesus Says:
      June 24, 2009 at 1:55 pm

      It is a sad picture for the breastfeeding room, a picture with a bottle stuck in the poor kids mouth. Even worse if this is an internationally accepted sign. :(

      We have not yet seen one ourselves in person.

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  2. Tamela Says:
    June 25, 2009 at 4:19 am

    How terribly Sad is that~ I first thought that I was going to see a room with padded rocking chairs and nice lighting with delightful scripture with pictures on the wall and lots of mommies with their precious gifts latched on to the breast with nothing but love abounding~ That was only a thought I guess~ It is just sad that people are so foolish~
    Blessings~

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  3. Eileen Says:
    June 25, 2009 at 2:56 pm

    It’s also sad that people are so ignorant. Take my son. Born with an undeveloped intestinal system. Not only did I want to nurse and try for several days until the tests came back…but he was unable to digest anything but a specialized formula. He is autistic. I thought the sign was obvious – for nursing and bottle feeding mothers alike. NO judgement there, eh? Nice to know, as a christian, that I failed. Thanks for helping me understand that. Didn’t know before. Felt kinda good. Y’know…loved. As in…God had a reason for my son…. guess I should tell my husband how sad we must’ve made other christians. Pesky ‘letting him live’ thing going on….you know? Tch, tch, tch. My bad.

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    • wilkinson4jesus Says:
      June 25, 2009 at 11:35 pm

      Eileen,
      Hmmm, let see how should I answer this kind of comment from some one who is hurting from the pain of an experience that has been hard, so much so they have missed the point of the wording not being the same as the picture. We are not above bottle feeding when medically needed. We bottle fed Vision our last for almost 2 months when things were not going well medically. But in a society who props bottles in kids mouths so they can do their own thing or leave them with a sitter. It is obvious that women who bottle feed are welcome to feed their children there too, however many breastfeeding women have more of a need away from the public eye (including away from bottle feeding Fathers) so there may be a required difference to be recognized by all. This happens all to often in churches. There is a nursery (to nurse in), after all this is the place they tell you to go if you try to nurse in the main church, even if you are covered. So you go to the nursery and it is filled with a co-ed mix of parents and youth and older kids who should be able to sit still in a service. Leaving no room for privacy for the nursing mother. There is a time when it is nice to know there is a place for “Mothers” (nursing or bottle feeding) and baby. Although the bottle feeding can be done anywhere as it publicly accepted by the masses.
      We are sorry for your misunderstanding but we still think the international breastfeeding sign (the blue and white one, we added into the post above) would have been a better choice of picture.

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  4. Eileen Says:
    June 26, 2009 at 11:20 am

    Hmmm, let see how should I answer this kind of comment from some one who is hurting from the pain of an experience that has been hard, so much so they have missed the point of the wording not being the same as the picture.
    Before I address your opening remark, I do wish to apologize for ‘flying off the handle’, as it were. Words on the screen lack the ‘tonal’ quality of say…tongue in cheek…which is, I’m guessing, the tone you were using with this post. My initial (albeit, strong) reaction was because, as the words are a flat impression without proper expressions a live chat affords, in response to what I perceived as a tasteless end of the comment (my opinion…which I hold) by the commentor Tamela. Perhaps I do not possess the gift to interpret
    “It is just sad that people are so foolish~” Then again, this is your blog.
    I am by no means in an accusatory tone here. As you may know, blogging is like whispering LOUD when someone’s in the room. Granted, I was welcome to come. And in no way wish to censure you.

    However, being as we have never met, I find your opening remark presumptive. My offense, if any….is based on conversation like this one IRL, where even if a mother chose to bottle feed and love the Lord, it is still her walk. And….it is presumptive to label the motivation or walk she has been on.

    I do empathize about the public nursing issue. It’s weird. And wrong. But…I am in no way hurting, as you strongly SAY I am. Not ask…not wonder…but SAY I am. I did take this post the wrong way. I am sorry.

    I am also aware now that you will label someone you do not know and the condition their heart is in. I wouldn’t do that. God bless. The 2nd picture made the post “make sense” for me. Thank you kindly.

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  5. wilkinson4jesus Says:
    June 26, 2009 at 7:39 pm

    Eilleen,
    This format does lack the ability of the full expression that we would normally use in conversation. That makes misunderstandings so much easier to happen. Sorry if we misread you and assumed to much from your comment. We did not mean to label you wrongly, but reading the comment you made with with out the “tonal” ability as you put it left little else to assume.

    As for what you said “where even if a mother chose to bottle feed and love the Lord, it is still her walk” You are correct. We know many bottle feeding families and respect their choice. It is not the people who choose to bottle feed that the breastfeeding rights struggle is against, but rather the monetary forces behind the feminist movement, formula companies, and government that have a big push and influence on our culture.
    ~Blessings~

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