Breastfeeding In The Church

That was my point. I said my wife, who has nursed in public, is discreet. She nurses in public but does not bare her breasts in public.

 

We don't know much about the first 12 years of Jesus' life, so we don't have a definitive answer. I believe she followed the norm of that society.

As the song goes, "Things are different now......" We have facilities and means for modesty, and we ought to use them, in my opinion.

Cheers,

Jim

 

I've heard of men who had a thing for something like this, some fantasy thing I wouldn't understand. But for some it means something se*ual. In reality, if this true, then it is tempting men to lust.

You've never sene a nonchristian breast feed? unusual isn't it.
I've never seen a christian expose herself in church either.

 

No it is not OK to see something like that in public. It is sin for it to be there and it is sin to gaze upon it.

 

According to my mother it was never common practice. While some would feed while out in public it wasn't a bold in your face affair. They worked to find a corner or another room. The current feminist boldness began in the 60's with the exacerbation of the feminist movement. Even then it was much less common than now. And it is far less common in the south. Modesty still has a place down here.

 

When my youngest was born, we had to be at church at 8 a.m. for orchestra practice. Sunday school immediately followed, then church. We didn't get home until about 1 or 1:30 p.m. I had to nurse baby sometime on Sunday's, even if I fed her before we left the house.

I'm not sure what you mean by "better options." I certainly wouldn't feed my kids in the bathroom and the nursery was full of parents--both men and women coming and going with their children. It was less private than the sanctuary! Sometimes married couples worked in the nursery together. Classrooms were full of children and the hallways were also public. I guess one could nurse in the car, but my girls were born in the winter.

So, moms are doomed if they do, doomed if they don't. If we stay home until our kids are weaned, I guess we'll get judged for "forsaking the assembling together" and if we come, we'll get judged for nursing our babies. If you feed your kids the old fashioned way, you are "innappropriate" or "immodest" and if you feed them a bottle, you're not giving them the best nutrition. Yep. Doomed if we do, doomed if we don't.

 

There's actually a famous photograph taken during the depression of a migrant woman sitting near her tent, breastfeeding her baby. There's nothing immodest in the picture, but you can tell her shirt is unbuttoned and the baby is nursing while she gazes at the camera. I'd say nursing must have been commonplace at least in the 1930's for a woman to allow a picture to be taken that way.

 

When my wife was BF she would simply go to an office or nursery to it. It was never an issue with me, that is just what she did.

 

Private places. A church should provide a private place for it, IMO. A room where a mom can go and feed the baby, burp her (the baby ), and have some quiet and privacy and still listen to the service.

You didn't get this from me. I am in favor of breastfeeding. Why buy milk when you can get it for free, right?? ... I am also in favor of a lot of other things that I don't think need to be done in certain places either. But for me, it is not a big deal. If a lady asked me what she should do, I would tell her that we have a place set aside for her where she can go and be comfortable if she would like to use it. If a lady breastfeeds in the service, I won't say anything about it.

 

She is in her 70's certainly old enough to know. The 60's flower children and feminists has worked hard to ingrain this right and to reframe history to make it appear that it was a "let me flop this thing out where ever I like" event. Truth is modesty had higher value in times past. The fact that a child needs to eat does not diminish the need for modesty contrary to feminist assertions.