Breastfeeding In Public Area

Have you ever think that every Breastfeeding Mom aren't thinking "it is too small" or "it is too big boob". It is just doing something wonderful and very naturally. The general breast taboo and the provocative media advertisements simply encourage with female breasts as a source of sexual fantasy / turn-on.
Men are being culturally conditioned to see breasts as sexual objects - as almost like inanimate objects that automatically 'click men's brains' to the 'turn on' mode.
Most parents tend to teach the children that woman's breasts are a taboo: they are supposed to be hidden. Exposing woman's breasts in public is considered shameful. In other words, breasts - or at least the nipple - are supposed to be covered at all times.
But if we see in almost every media or advertisements, they expose breasts (although never the nipples) displayed in a sexually provocative fashion on television, in print media and at magazines.
Just think: if young girls continually see this propaganda without a balancing view of natural naked breasts, it is no wonder they also start seriously worrying about "my size" and forget the real functions of her boob. The general breast taboo and the provocative media advertisements simply encourage this idea.
The idea to make nursing room in many public area is just an example that breastfeed in public area is shameful or taboo. [learn more]

once more, benefits of breastfeeding!

Breastfeeding brings great benefits. Allah has enjoined breastfeeding in His Book Al Quran, when He said (interpretation of the meaning):

“The mothers shall give suck to their children for two whole years, (that is) for those (parents) who desire to complete the term of suckling”

[al-Baqarah 2:233]

So Allah has stated the child’s right to be breastfed.

Fourteen hundred years after this verse was revealed, international organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO) have issued statement after statement calling on mothers to breastfeed their children, whereas Islam enjoined that fourteen centuries ago.

The benefits of breastfeeding for the child include the following:

1 – The mother’s milk is sterile, containing no germs.

2 – The mother’s milk cannot be imitated by any milk prepared from the milk of cows, goats or camels. It is composed in such a way as to meet the child’s needs day after day, from birth until weaning.

3 – The mother’s milk contains sufficient amounts of protein and sugar that suit the infant completely, whereas the proteins in cow’s, goat’s and buffalo’s milk are difficult for the child’s stomach to digest, because they are suited to the offspring of those animals.

4 – The development of children who are breastfed is faster and more complete than that of children who are bottle-fed.

5 – The psychological and emotional bond between the mother and her child.

6 – The mother’s milk contains various elements that are essential to the child’s nourishment, in the right amounts and formats needed by his body, and in a form that is suited to his ability to digest and absorb. The nourishing content of the milk is not fixed; it changes day by day according to the child’s needs.

7 – The mother’s milk is kept at a suitable temperature that meets the child’s needs, and can be given to him at any time.

8 – Breastfeeding is a natural means of contraception for the mother, and is free of the complications that may accompany use of birth control pills, the coil (IUD) or injections.

From Tawdeeh al-Ahkaam, 5/107.
Notes : all of my children ( I have 3 children) were breastfed until they're 2 years old, Alhamdulillah

exclusive breastfeeding Indonesian babies!!

Improving early and exclusive breastfeeding in Indonesia would help reduce the country's high rates of neonatal mortality and malnutrition among children under five. Fewer than 4 in 10 children are breastfed within an hour of birth, and half of the mothers who do breastfeed stop midway into the six-month period recommended by doctors. These indicators are even worse in Jakarta, where one-quarter of 5-year-olds are underweight. (learn more...)