1/26/2009

Ta-ta for now

With all the pressure and frustration of keeping Diablito content, and the misery associated with said tasks, both Ma and Pa glanced over what was a truly funny moment.

Amongst all the Facebook nipple banning babble, and the latest headline on the liberal news network's website "Is public breastfeeding okay?" it reminded me...

Saturday was our inauguration. We managed to take the sprout with us to a local climbing gym, to see friends, introduce Junior and try our hands at climbing after a long hiatus.

As we soon realized,
-Our minds, bodies and muscles remember little about how to do it.
-The wailing of a 3 month old's echoes are amplified inside of a plywood amphitheater, almost successfully drowning out the remix of Daft Punk tracks

these combined to bring our climbing excursion from comical dismay to outright depressing.

Suki set off to a quiet corner in the upstairs loft of the gym. Seldom used and out of sight from the rest of the gym. With Junior splayed across her lap awaiting lunch, Suki revealed the source at the exact moment a fellow climber topped out. "Uh sorry about that".

So, what's your take on public breastfeeding?

I recall visiting the Vatican while studying in Rome. We were there for mass and had fantastic seats. Watching the Pope wave and recite prayers in Latin. Then the horrifying realization that a woman seated just behind us was bare breasted feeding her infant. It took a few moments for me to adjust, and come to the conclusion that it is natural. I mean if a Catholic doesn't need to feel guilty for doing something like this, with the Pope watching it can't be 'wrong'. Right?

1 comment:

Suki said...

"uh. sorry. uh...I'll just go back down this way"

HAHAHAHAH

while it made me and the Prof nervous as shit...it really was ironic that he managed to, quite literally, appear out of thin air at the PRECISE moment I was squeezing the lady into junior's mouth.

sigh.

a few years back...that might've gotten me the digits.