tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2891670707436705527.post8214788261106428500..comments2023-06-07T12:59:29.543-05:00Comments on Curmudgeon Central: Breast-Feeding Brouhahamanjushri924http://www.blogger.com/profile/16996113208352431863noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2891670707436705527.post-84953429236645642452012-09-13T09:05:40.563-05:002012-09-13T09:05:40.563-05:00I would like to respond in support of these commen...I would like to respond in support of these comments. First, I will note that I am a professor, a single mom and I breastfed my child for the first 2 years. Although I was not teaching at that time, I was working and, therefore, making all necessary arrangements to take breaks at work and find appropriate places for using a breast pump.<br />I am a strong advocate of breastfeeding and I truly understand the difficulties of juggling a sick child, a job, and being concerned for my tenure. But I would never have chosen to take an infant into a class and certainly would not have breastfed in front of a class. Not because I feel it is in any way unnatural to breast feed in public or that I condone others for being critical of that. But, more directly, if I am giving my child his needed and valued attention as a caregiver and mother, I am not being the professor that my students or my employer is expecting to have in that classroom. And if I am teaching to the best of my ability and at the level expected by my students and by the high expectations outlined in the tenure policies, I am not able to care for my baby to the degree that he deserves to be cared for.<br />Finding someone to handle your sick baby while you are in class a far better option that short changing everyone in that room including the baby.cc connhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07346139778023306748noreply@blogger.com