Really? This is something for people to get outraged over? Picture at the link below.

http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/military-moms-breastfeeding-uniform-stir-controversey-214500503.html

At a time when breastfeeding in public is already controversial, pictures of two military moms doing so while wearing their uniforms is sparking outrage.

The photo is part of a local breastfeeding awareness campaign by Mom2Mom of Fairchild Air Force Base, a support group launched in January by Crystal Scott, a military spouse and mother of three. Among the intimate close-ups of smiling young mothers cuddling their adorable babies, the images of the two airmen stand out.

"People are comparing breastfeeding in uniform to urinating and defecating in uniform. They're comparing it to the woman who posed in "Playboy" in uniform [in 2007]" Scott told Yahoo! Shine in an interview. "We never expected it to be like this."

"I'm an X-ray tech and I breastfeed in my uniform all the time," Scott says. "Granted they're scrubs. But people do it all the time in their uniforms. If you have a hungry baby, why would you take the time to change completely?"

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Terran Echegoyen-McCabe, a member of the Air National Guard who was photographed in uniform nursing her 10-month-old twin daughters, says that she's surprised by the reaction to the photos.

"I have breastfed in our lobby, in my car, in the park ... and I pump, usually in the locker room," she told the "Today" show, adding that she usually nurses her babies while on her lunch break during drill weekends. "I'm proud to be wearing a uniform while breast-feeding. I'm proud of the photo and I hope it encourages other women to know they can breastfeed whether they're active duty, guard or civilian."

All of the women in the photos volunteered to appear in the awareness campaign, and Echegoyen-McCabe is featured -- wearing civilian clothing -- in a few of the other candid shots. None of the photos are posed; the women are simply feeding their babies the way they usually do. But even though some of the other photographs are just as revealing, only the ones of Echegoyen-McCabe and her friend Christina Luna in uniform have been criticized.

"The Air Force has never endorsed these photos," the photographer, Brynja Sigurdardottir points out on her website, where she posted several other photos from the Mom2Mom campaign. "These women just happen to be in the Air Force, in their uniform, breastfeeding their babies."

When it comes to talking about breastfeeding in public, comparing it to other bodily functions -- and even sex -- is common, in spite of the fact that breastfeeding is legal and protected while defecating or having sex in public is not. But the fact that two of the moms are shown breastfeeding in public while wearing military uniforms makes the entire controversy more complicated. The Army, for example, didn't even come up with a combat uniform for women until 2010, so accepting the idea of a uniformed soldier breastfeeding a baby may be especially jarring. And the uniforms themselves come with their own sets of rules.

According to Military Spouse Central, public displays of affection -- even something as innocuous as holding hands -- are not allowed while wearing a military uniform. Also forbidden while in uniform: eating, drinking, or talking on a cell phone while walking, carrying an umbrella that's not black, and (in some cases) smoking or even chewing gum. While there is no policy that addresses breastfeeding in uniform, Air Force spokesperson Captain Rose Richeson told MSNBC: "Airmen should be mindful of their dress and appearance and present a professional image at all times while in uniform." Military moms who are still breastfeeding are encouraged to pump and bottle-feed their babies while they're in uniform.

Scott suggests that the issue might have less to do with the uniform and more to do with our own internal conflicts. "I think a lot of people think that you can't be a mom and be a soldier," she says. "This is not something that's out of norm for them. They breastfeed in uniform all the time -- it's just not something that's usually captured on film."

Seems that the PC_Crowd has contracted Galloping Brainrot!
Sheesh,what next?

This is a very sensible comment left about the report.

'I have noticed something: it is usually the news that is always saying that people are upset over something when in reality no one even gives a crap about most of this stuff. The media is just the stick that likes to stir the pot and for what, to hear themselves and think they might get a reaction.


Tell me. How do they know how many, if anyone is upset about this???

if it wasn't for breast feeding the people who wear those uniforms wouldn't exist.
i agree with Conrad and Willing2 on this also.

The kerfuffle I think is much ado about the Macho Male Preserve of The Military.

Guys -----------OK

Girls and Gays KO

Just My Opinion

Great Picture.

The breastfeeding issues goes beyond this...
It's stupid!!
We have boobs to FEED our infants...
this seems to get lost in the perversion of our world.

good lord...

I have a great video about boobs ...no not seedy

its good, clean, and very clever

but I have failed to upload it to Photobucket.

Anyone to enlighten me?

Post the url.

I'm strangely conflicted by all the brouhaha.

First, I'm fascinated by that woman with twins, one on each boob. Wow. It's hard to take your eyes off her.

Second, I'm disgusted that there is a such a thing as a breastfeeding awareness campaign.

(If people are not aware of breast feeding by now, how stupid are they?)

and personally, breast feeding is not something I would do in public.

Not for any awareness campaign or to feed the brats.


Conflicted.

The campaign is in place because so many women won't feed their babies in public, or at all that way.
The stigma of breastfeeding has embarrassed many women into NOT doing it. It's GOOD for the baby, it's the natural way and society has made it wrong.

I feed ALL 3 of my sons whenever they were hungry. I covered myself up as best I could. Anyone who had a problem with it, it's their problem. I wasn't going to make my babies wait to eat because of someone else's issues.

The brats need to eat.

Its downloaded to my PC from an E-mail.

I don't have an URL for same

Sorry Singme

That picture would be a lot better if those damn kids weren't in the way!

But then, there'd be a picture of the woman and the back of your head.

You dog.

Didn't yo mama give you any of that when you were a brat?

Nudity is stigmatized.


and thread.

Most of the time breast feeding is healthy. Sometimes mama's milk is no good, and the kid can starve to death. It almost happened to my niece.

The stupid doctors didn't have a clue. My Mother noticed it right away and told my sis to get that kid on some formula.

I still don't think there should be any campaign for breast feeding awareness, and for the most part I don't think it is necessary to do it in public, but if it is, there should be a way to do it with a little modesty and class.

As far as mothers in the military.... not a good idea in my opinion. I think a baby needs her mother 100%.

So you don't think any mother should work?

I think being a mother IS work.

That would be nice but unrealistic in this day and age. But at least a working mother can quit her job. A woman in the military is owned by the government. She has little choice.

I have a great deal of respect for mothers. I think child rearing is a full time job. If you can work two jobs, you have my respect.

There are rare times when mother has a problem with her milk...
generally it's better for baby and the entire nursing process is also aiding in the mothers healing from pregnancy and birth. The uterus is contracting back "down" with the sucking. There is a reason we women are put together the way we are..

I know women who let their baby cry all the way home because they will not feed in public..that is just silly. As long as women feel this way, then the campaign is needed.
I realize you have never nursed...it's a delicate process. The boob is so big it falls over the baby's nose..yes, being modest and classy factor in, I suppose. Ya can't just stick the baby on and wrap it all up in a blanket..