Knowledge is power

Today we had a breast feeding class to learn about what lactation support is available, how to get started etc...
Pretty far in advance for us, as we are 29 weeks away from our estimated date of delivery but got us both super excited. I can't wait until Bean gets here, I have been excited up til now but am so anxious to meet our new family member, it is almost ridiculous.
It's kind of all I want to talk about...but I know how annoying that would be. But I can talk to the LOML about it because he's super excited too. So we do talk about it, quite a bit.
I was pretty surprised today to discover that a lot of the other women in the class didn't plan on breast feeding. It blew my mind. And when the lactation nurse leading the class asked for reasons only one woman spoke up and said she wasn't comfortable with the idea of doing it in front of other people. The lactation nurse assured her that you can feed very discreetly and that some places have lactation stations for nursing moms. She seemed unswayed on the issue. Granted later she asked if it was going to be okay to breast feed because she was a smoker who has no intention of quitting. Luckily this was at the end of class so I could leave the room.
Okay, so for some reason you think breast feeding is "unnatural" (seriously the phrase she used) but smoking during pregnancy is definitely what nature intended?! Ugh. I mean I know we as a society have sexualized the breasts but honestly people their sole reason for being is to make milk to feed babies...what could be more natural than using them for what they are made for?
Oh well, enough of my soapbox, I have a sleep study to take part in.
Goodnight all.
Ciao for now~
marymontmama