Add in a military uniform though and you get quite a juxtaposition. Toughness, violence, warfare, separation versus nurturing, softness, tenderness and togetherness. Perhaps this was the problem. People felt too challenged by the image and didn't know how to categorise it.
I think it became more than just an image of breastfeeding in public. It forced a human look upon the military, added a gentleness, another side which for some has been interpreted as making the military look weak. What armed force wants that when going into battle?
Either way anything that challenges us to rethink our attitudes and look at things in a new way can only be good. Challenge leads to change. And hats off to those beautiful women who once again brought breastfeeding in public into the spotlight. Because one day we won't bat an eye at a mum doing the most natural thing in the world. One day it will be normal.
