N is for . . . N.I.P

Nursing in public!

No matter who you are, or where you are in this big wide world of ours. There is no doubt that you have heard the debate in nursing in public. Weather it be from a passerby or a family member is someone on television, the debate is consistently raging and I'm sure it's one that will never end.

I know that a couple of good friends of mine in America just participated in what they call a "nurse in" which happened because there was an uproar over s women nursing in public, so a group of women gathered at the place where it occurred and nursed there little ones. I am in love with this concept and think its amazing that the women stood up for what they believe in.

Personally I believe that if your baby is hungry, you should feed them whenever or wherever you are. I do not see how something so beautiful and natural can possibly offend anyone. And if it does offend you, I believe that your the one with the issue. But at the same time, I can understand making sure its not right in a persons face.

Today Kochie, host of Sunrise on Chanel 7, has caused quite a uproar by tweeting that ..."I don't think it's unreasonable to expect breast feeding in public is done discreetly. I think it's just common courtesy to others" this was in reference to a lady who was breast feeding at his local pool which was busy on the day it occurred.

Now saying such a bold statement has obviously landed him in somehow water, but I do believe he is in the wrong as the mother was trying to watch her children who were in the pool whilst nursing her hungry child, and I do not believe the right thing for her to be doing was be out of the way!

Unfortunately it's comments such as this that make people who breastfeed self conscious of nursing in public and that's the worst part of the whole debate. Women should field comfortable feeding their child where ever they please. It is after all the most natural things mother can do for her child.

S is for . . . Social Media

So being a young mum and also being a member of Generation Y, people just generally expect that I'm up to date with the latest technology and how it all works. Well I'll let you in on a little secret.

I have no idea what i'm doing,

I decided to try and jump into this century by creating myself some social media pages. Well here is how that went.

Facebook,

Well I will admit that I was already apart of the facebook world for myself personally. But to create a page for the blog, well that was a whole other story. To begin with it took me 15 minutes to even find how to "create a page" Turns out you have to be on a "page" to do this. Well that the way I found it anyway.
Jumping through the hoops on facebook however wasn't to difficult. I managed to create a page (I think) that makes sense and represents the blog. I also already have one "like". We can of course ignore the fact, that one like is my own personal facebook. Hey, a friend is a friend. I think i'm a pretty good friend too.

Twitter,

This one was a totally new realm for me. I have obviously heard of twitter, but I have never used it before. I have no idea what-so-ever how it works or what your meant to do. So I looged on to the website and as with facebook I found it quite easy to set up. But actually using it. Well thats a whole new kettle of fish! I even googled, "how to twitter" and "Twitter for dummies" and well, to be honest, i'm still none the wiser on how it actually works.

So im going with the, "learn as you do" technique. So hopefully before the technology of twitter becomes obsolete, ill have figured out what i'm actually supposed to be doing.

Instagram,

I dont know how to link this one, So my username is crazycrunchychocolatemummy

 See already off to a bad start with this one. With the last two picturs, I considered myself very clever. I managed to link the pictures to my actual accounts (yep, i'm just that clever) but this one, I have absolutly no idea how to do that.

Although I think i gather the concept of this social media pretty simply. Take photos, add a cool filter, post for everyone to see. Easy, simple and well something I will love I believe. So those who chose to follow me, prepare for plenty of cute baby pictures, pictures of my puppy and probably the occasional pretty sunset.


So now,

I feel I'm a little more "up with the times" shall I say. But I still have plenty to learn!