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Beware the Breastfeeding Fiend

This woman came in to get some books for her son. He must be around 8 or 9. She goes back to the children's wing and then immediately comes back out to inform me that a woman is breastfeeding her child and she does not want her 8 or 9 year old son exposed to it. Ok. Now, I don't have children. I am not around them often, but I would think that someone breastfeeding her infant would not be an ugly thing that I need to shield my 8 or 9 year old son from. Like her son doesn't have victoria secret catalogues stuffed somewhere in his room while he looks at the airbrushed tits of too slender, too beautiful women that he will never have a chance with. Breastfeeding is done quite descretely from what I have seen. Mothers have blankets their babies can rest under while they nurse so the mother is not exposed, nor is the baby. it is a normal process of life, and she wants to shield her kid from it. I wonder what else she will shield him from in the real world. Man, when that kids gets older and gets really confused his parents will blame society when the real blame is not letting him know how beautiful and vulnerable life really is. After she informs me of the breastfeeding fiend, she stands around for a minute. I, not realizing that there is something so utterly wrong with breastfeeding, don't do anything, figuring the woman is just waiting the ordeal out. About a minute later she asks me if I am going to go and say something to the breastfeeding woman or is she going to have to go back there. So I went an got my manager and told her the situation and she chuckled and went back to talk to the woman, but by the time she went back there the woman was getting ready to go. When my manager got back she said "...it's not like the woman was flailing her boob around. She was breastfeeding. It is more natural then the airbrushed boobs in playboy, you know?" I had to laugh at that. My manager is cool. I have seen woman feeding their babies all the time at little league games, the mall, and i never got offended by it. It is a natural and beautiful process that people do but other people, I have noticed, get freaked out by it so easily. Whatever. Babies have to eat, and if they get hungry while you are out doing things that you need to do, too bad, you still have to feed them.