The breastfeeding controversy

Here in Lexington, there is a big shit storm over a woman that was asked to stop nursing at Applebee's.
http://www.kentucky.com/454/story/161993.html#recent_comm
I have friends that are trying to get me to speak out about my experience and stage more nurse-ins (some even suggested all of us going into the pool area and squirting breastmilk into it!). I have written letters to the pool director, La Leche, and Senator Tom Buford. I choose to wait and see what their response is before I call in the lactivists. It was one person who asked me to stop, not the establishment. I want them to be educated, not picketed. I don't want to shove anything down anyone's throats, I just want an apology for my embarrassment and to be assured that another woman won't have to be embarrassed. I do have a legal right to feed my baby and as far as covering up or feeding her in the bathroom, both are absurd!
I choose to fight my battle quietly, Brooke Ryan is calling in the big guns. I support her 100% and plan to be at the Nurse-In.

That being said:
Bug turns 1 on Saturday!! Holy crap where does the time go. Whatever turns 12! God help us all. we are having a huge bash, carnival theme. Should be big fun.

Conversation this morning with Whatever:
me: DO you have socks on?
W: uh-huh
Me: let me see
W: why?
Me: because you have told me yes before and didn't have them on, let me see
W: GAWD! Here, see.
Me: you don't have any socks on.
W: oh, I thought I had some on.

Got kicked out of the pool!

OK, as The Saint would tell you, I am being dramatic. I was asked not to breastfeed IN the pool. Very nicely by the pool manager. Apparently I was offending other swimmers. I am not one of those militant lactationistas, I didn't create a scene, I politely covered up. Since I have the guilt of working and sending The Bug to the sitter I nurse her whenever and wherever we are when we are together. I love it. Not only am I able to nourish my child, I can lob out a boob in public! I love lobbing out boobs! I digress. I can see both sides and I am sure other mothers don't want their prepubescent sons to see my ta-tas. But good golly miss molly, have you seen some of the VERY large women that squeeze into VERY tiny bikinis???? Tell me what is more offensive. I am discreet. I would cover up if The Bug would let me but she doesn't like to have her face covered. And if it was a matter of breastmilk in the pool, how many of those kids running around actually take a minute to use the facilities? Not many. I did get a little poetic justice, someone left a floater, they had to evacuate and drain the pool. Ha!

Bug Concentrating REAL HARD!

This is new. My father does this when he is deep in thought!

My trash digger

The Bug sits right up when she wakes up. Kind of like the temperature thing on the Thanksgiving turkey, just pops up. It is funny and sweet, she smiles and giggles, too. If she has had enough sleep, she is raring to go, if not, she flops about like a fish out of water. Luckily this morning she was up and alert. We get ready for our day. My other daughter, Whatever, was already off to school. As I am packing us up, I throw away half a banana. The Bug looks up at me at me with an inquisitive look on her face and says "Na-Na?" Awwww. So cute. I say "yes, Na-na, good Bug". She knows what a banana is and can point it out in a crowd, I am so proud! So I go back to my business. I turn to check on her and she has gotten the banana out of the trash and is attempting to eat it. Now what do you think I did? It still had the peel on it and had only been there for a few minutes and, Christ, she said the word and pointed it out. I peeled it down to the part that wasn't touching the trash and broke off a piece and fed it to her. I know, I know, it was in the trash! It hadn't been there for more than 30 seconds and she was so damn cute pointing at it and calling it by name. I am a trash Mom.
Oh, I also sent her to the sitter with a margarine container and some action figure that I have never seen before.
She was just too cute sitting there with a mouth full of trash banana banging Shark Boy on the plastic tub. I didn't want to piss her off!

My First Blog!

So I am jumping on the blog bandwagon! I have read so many interesting blogs that I am inspired to create my own. I can't promise brilliance, I can't promise it will be updated regularly. Let's just see how it goes............