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Breastfeeding in Public: Toddlers

Tips for Toddlers

Breastfeeding in public doesn’t have to be intimidating or flashy. Here are a few tips for making it easier, even with a squirmy toddler!

Some days I just need to be at Target, even though my toddler only naps in the last 5 minutes of the drive there and home, wants to nurse at the most inconvenient times (checking out or in the bathroom. Um no.), and I don’t really need to buy anything. 

Especially those days!

It’s hard not to make eye contact with strangers while I’m nursing. I don’t mean to! And frankly I don’t like it. I’m not sure if I’m meeting eyes because they’re already looking at me (why is that? We can sense when someone is looking at us, but our only response is to look at them?) or I’m just casually people watching and they look at me to try to figure out the kicking legs and clawing hands coming from my lap. Either way, it can be a little awkward. That’s not even accounting for the fact that at any moment, randomly determined by the milk monster I’m calmly wrestling, my nipple could be exposed briefly before I can take cover. I’d rather them not make eye contact and that flash of nip be as anonymous as possible! Meeting again in the clearance clothes section is SO awkward after one of those.

*SIGH*

Add it to the list of things I wish I never knew.
Earth Mama Angel Baby

Kids don’t care about awkward! Sometimes you’re at Target (all the time), and babe’s gotta nurse! No big deal. This was one of my first videos, and it was by request from friends and fellow breastfeeders. It was made on my phone, sorry, and I was so incredibly distracted by my child and the public walking by watching me nurse a bucking bronco AND record a video. I look and feel like a complete rookie, but that’s life.  

Next time you’re out and about with your nursling, try some of these tips and let me know how it goes! Comment with your biggest concern or question, and I’d love to answer in another video! (My toddler is off the tap, but I have a new baby who loves the mama tap!) 

Breastfeeding still tough? You might like another breastfeeding post full of tips!

Toddlers Are Unpredictable

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Mandy Irby
Mandy Irby is a board-certified labor nurse with 13 years of experience supporting survivors of assault and trauma through pregnancy, birth planning, and at their bedside during childbirth and pregnancy loss. Mandy is an international educator through her online, on-demand childbirth ed classes and community exclusively for nurses to shed the shame and powerlessness they feel to change the very system L&D nurses were setup to fail in. She's passionate about shaping the future of nursing to improve childbirth outcomes! As a creative educator, Mandy co-authored Amazon best-seller, Baby Got VBAC.  Many know her through her wildly popular, tongue-in-cheek social media platforms.

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