I Feel Like I Won't Be a Good Mom if I Don't at Least Try: The Breastfeeding Debate

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“Can you believe this?” Lucy cried as she tossed her phone at her sister and flopped down on the glider on her mom’s front porch. Clara, her 32-year-old “baby” sister, rubbed her 7-month pregnant belly as she sat up in her chair and picked up Lucy’s phone and glanced at the newspaper article with the photo of Nebraska State Senator Machaela Cavenaugh breastfeeding her son on the floor of the legislature. Even though only part of her breast was showing in the photo, it was kind of surprising to Clara to see a senator’s boob in the newspaper. Not knowing exactly what Lucy was getting at, she said, “um . . . what’s wrong with it?”