The other day, I was talking with my mother and sister about nursing Chris. It was along the lines of . . . oh, my god, when is he going to stop. Help! Anyway, with a bit of a blush, I remembered that my grandfather was sitting at the kitchen table and could hear what I was saying. Now, even though I am about as comfortable with breastfeeding as I am with breathing, it’s my grandfather, for cryin’ out loud, and I was a tad embarrassed. I figured he would pretend not to hear, and I was getting ready to change the subject to football, baseball, or the weather, when he spoke up: “When I was young, women would nurse at the bus stop, and the men would hold the bus for her while she finished and got organized to go. It’s a shame that people don’t have manners like that for mothers anymore.” Huh? So cool! I don’t know if that behavior was a function of his community or the time period or both, but, wow, I had Gramps pegged wrong on this issue. Whether that means I will actually let Chris stick his head up my shirt while we’re discussing our usual football, baseball, or the weather . . . I don’t think I can go quite that far.
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i think it’s the generation. my grampa has said some similar things to me. it’s not like they want to TALK about the details of breast-feeding, but they respect what it is and what’s for, and the woman who is caring for her child. i love old men, not the creepy kind, the kind that smile and chuckle and hold doors for you.
Oh, wow. I love this…we think we are so progressive “these days”, and really in so many ways we are so backwards…
That is great! Sounds like Gramps knows what he’s talking about!
Go Gramps, Go! I love what happens when we actually start talking about this stuff.
I love Gramps!
gramps rocks.
Yep, Gramps is cool. My sister started asking him more questions about this to get him to elaborate, and if you saw just a transcript of what his take is on nursing in public, you’d have thought he was some kind of feminist-mother-lactivist on her way to a nurse-in instead of a 80 year old conservative Irish-Catholic grandfather. . . So much for stereotypes.
Aw that is just lovely! Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous.