{"id":172,"date":"2014-01-29T02:14:43","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T02:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldofgrey.com\/?p=172"},"modified":"2017-10-05T14:10:18","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T14:10:18","slug":"this-makes-my-brain-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worldofgrey.com\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"This Makes My Brain Hurt"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have a fabulous children’s museum here in town. No, not a museum about children or filled with stuffed children (ew!)…a glorious entertainment place FOR children. Where you can let your child roam free and be fairly confident they won’t topple a reconstructed dinosaur or leave their fingerprints on a priceless oil. Basically, someone took a giant building and filled it with crap that kids would love spend hours getting into (with an educational spin to make parents happy).<\/p>\n

When Munchie was younger we spent a lot of time in the designated “Toddler Areas”…a lot of time. And, though I’ve never been bashful about nursing in public, I appreciate that they have a private space for mothers or nursing pairs who require more privacy. I even used it once when Munchie was in her highly distractable stage and would pop off to look around at the slightest movement or noise. A feeding in that busy environment would have lasted hours without a quiet corner.<\/p>\n

While many more mothers are choosing to breastfeed their children, it seems bottles are so ingrained in our culture as the way that babies are fed, that even a giant sign for an area designated for nursing<\/em> from breast<\/em>s would have a giant bottle on it.<\/p>\n

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I’m far from a ‘Nursing Nazi.’ I did breastfeed Munchie well past a year and I do believe it is optimal nutrition for babies and beneficial in many other ways, but I get that folks formula feed or feed breastmilk via bottles occasionally\/exclusively or any combination of nursing\/breastmilk\/formula\/bottles. As long as a baby is fed, that’s really the important thing.<\/p>\n

But regardless of where you fall on the spectrum, can we all agree that if you are using a room for nursing, a bottle probably isn’t involved? If the museum wanted to be as PC as possible and keep the bottle, then call it a feeding room and I’d have nothing to write about.\u00a0 But to put use a bottle…it just hurts my brain every time I see it. I’m not saying they should have a breast on the sign, but, heck, the International Breastfeeding symbol is free to use.<\/p>\n

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Dear Museum, this symbol makes more sense for a sign on a breastfeeding room. And it’s free to use.<\/p><\/div>\n

Granted this falls into the “trivial” category of “first world problems” but it makes my brain hurt, nonetheless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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