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		<title>By: Maman A Droit</title>
		<link>http://codenamemama.com/2010/07/05/we-are-free-to-n-i-p/comment-page-1/#comment-11963</link>
		<dc:creator>Maman A Droit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I hate that it&#039;s seen as a deviant behavior, like my cousin who formula-feeds is doing things &quot;right&quot; and I&#039;m doing things &quot;wrong&quot;. That&#039;s the message I got at our last family holiday. My plan is just to keep breastfeeding proudly, and act like it&#039;s the norm. I am buying my pregnant sister-in-law a copy of &quot;The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding&quot; and I keep sending my mom links to cute nursing clothes on sale so she can buy them for my sis-in-law (my mom didn&#039;t know nursing clothes existed until I told her a few months ago!!)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I hate that it&#8217;s seen as a deviant behavior, like my cousin who formula-feeds is doing things &#8220;right&#8221; and I&#8217;m doing things &#8220;wrong&#8221;. That&#8217;s the message I got at our last family holiday. My plan is just to keep breastfeeding proudly, and act like it&#8217;s the norm. I am buying my pregnant sister-in-law a copy of &#8220;The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding&#8221; and I keep sending my mom links to cute nursing clothes on sale so she can buy them for my sis-in-law (my mom didn&#8217;t know nursing clothes existed until I told her a few months ago!!)</p>
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		<title>By: Melodie</title>
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		<dc:creator>Melodie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 02:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nursing in public is all about normalizing it for me. If my seeing me with my breastfeeding my child can change the mind of a mother or future mother to nip, then I have done my job.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nursing in public is all about normalizing it for me. If my seeing me with my breastfeeding my child can change the mind of a mother or future mother to nip, then I have done my job.</p>
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		<title>By: Darcel</title>
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		<dc:creator>Darcel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 01:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is a great Carnival. I can&#039;t wait to read the other posts. Also love the pic of your friend with her other children.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a great Carnival. I can&#8217;t wait to read the other posts. Also love the pic of your friend with her other children.</p>
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		<title>By: RedPowerLady</title>
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		<dc:creator>RedPowerLady</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great post.  I agree that it needs to be normalized.  I wish it just &quot;were&quot; but right now it isn&#039;t so we need to make it that way.

To answer your question.
What I do is NIP proudly.  Last week I NIP&#039;d during a cake walk, lol.   I also talk about BF comfortably around my family who needs BF education and my nieces and nephews (other side of family) so they can see it as normal.  In addition I hand out copies to &quot;the womanly art of breastfeeding&quot; to all my acquaintances who are preggo.  If they don&#039;t want it I tell them to just pass it along.  It has a nice section on NIP.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great post.  I agree that it needs to be normalized.  I wish it just &#8220;were&#8221; but right now it isn&#8217;t so we need to make it that way.</p>
<p>To answer your question.<br />
What I do is NIP proudly.  Last week I NIP&#8217;d during a cake walk, lol.   I also talk about BF comfortably around my family who needs BF education and my nieces and nephews (other side of family) so they can see it as normal.  In addition I hand out copies to &#8220;the womanly art of breastfeeding&#8221; to all my acquaintances who are preggo.  If they don&#8217;t want it I tell them to just pass it along.  It has a nice section on NIP.</p>
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		<title>By: Erin</title>
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		<dc:creator>Erin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I love the list of tips there at the end... I think looking confident and smiling at others who look at you really diffuses anything that might happen.  They either smile back, or they look away and continue walking.

I am glad there are other moms out there who understand why it needs to be talked about and normalized... I think many &quot;mainstream&quot; moms have the &quot;just go and do it, and stop talking to me about it.&quot;  It is unfortunate that we have to talk and try to normalize it, but that is where we are.  And it doesn&#039;t make us &quot;obsessive,&quot; as some people say... we just want to help it to be normalized.  One day, we won&#039;t even have to hear the word &quot;lactivist,&quot; because we won&#039;t need them once breastfeeding is just seen as biologically normal, the standard (at least, I hope that day will come!).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love the list of tips there at the end&#8230; I think looking confident and smiling at others who look at you really diffuses anything that might happen.  They either smile back, or they look away and continue walking.</p>
<p>I am glad there are other moms out there who understand why it needs to be talked about and normalized&#8230; I think many &#8220;mainstream&#8221; moms have the &#8220;just go and do it, and stop talking to me about it.&#8221;  It is unfortunate that we have to talk and try to normalize it, but that is where we are.  And it doesn&#8217;t make us &#8220;obsessive,&#8221; as some people say&#8230; we just want to help it to be normalized.  One day, we won&#8217;t even have to hear the word &#8220;lactivist,&#8221; because we won&#8217;t need them once breastfeeding is just seen as biologically normal, the standard (at least, I hope that day will come!).</p>
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		<title>By: Michelle @ The Parent Vortex</title>
		<link>http://codenamemama.com/2010/07/05/we-are-free-to-n-i-p/comment-page-1/#comment-11868</link>
		<dc:creator>Michelle @ The Parent Vortex</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My neighbourhood is extremely NIP-friendly, and sometimes I forget that women in other parts of the world (especially the US) find it much more uncomfortable to NIP.  It&#039;s absolutely true that the more women nurse in public the more normal it will be - it&#039;s happened in my community and it can happen elsewhere too!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My neighbourhood is extremely NIP-friendly, and sometimes I forget that women in other parts of the world (especially the US) find it much more uncomfortable to NIP.  It&#8217;s absolutely true that the more women nurse in public the more normal it will be &#8211; it&#8217;s happened in my community and it can happen elsewhere too!</p>
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		<title>By: Our Sentiments</title>
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		<dc:creator>Our Sentiments</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh, I also nurse my three year old in public myself.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh, I also nurse my three year old in public myself.</p>
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		<title>By: Our Sentiments</title>
		<link>http://codenamemama.com/2010/07/05/we-are-free-to-n-i-p/comment-page-1/#comment-11860</link>
		<dc:creator>Our Sentiments</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I give a knowing nod to nursing mothers when I see them. I have also informed mothers in the bathroom nursing that our mall is baby friendly (there is medical buildings around the area and in order to get baby intuitive the mall had to become baby friendly).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I give a knowing nod to nursing mothers when I see them. I have also informed mothers in the bathroom nursing that our mall is baby friendly (there is medical buildings around the area and in order to get baby intuitive the mall had to become baby friendly).</p>
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		<title>By: Melissa</title>
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		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Perfectly stated!  Unfortunately, where I live there is nothing on the books that specifically protects breastfeeding women, but I&#039;m not too worried about it.  I have gotten nothing but positive responses from &quot;locals&quot; -- it&#039;s only others from the states who seem uncomfortable, so I keep on trying to normalize it for their sake! :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Perfectly stated!  Unfortunately, where I live there is nothing on the books that specifically protects breastfeeding women, but I&#8217;m not too worried about it.  I have gotten nothing but positive responses from &#8220;locals&#8221; &#8212; it&#8217;s only others from the states who seem uncomfortable, so I keep on trying to normalize it for their sake! :)</p>
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		<title>By: Rebekah C</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rebekah C</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is such a wonderful idea!  Thanks so much for helping to get this off the ground!  Wonderful article and I agree whole-heartedly!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is such a wonderful idea!  Thanks so much for helping to get this off the ground!  Wonderful article and I agree whole-heartedly!</p>
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