Every few months, it seems, the X-fka-Twitter discourse regarding nursing in public resurfaces. “Prudes!” “Exhibitionists!” “Lactivists!” The highly charged and usually unjustified accusations fly fast and furious. Within the church in my context, purity culture has added a further layer of complication to the melee. I remember my naive first-time-expectant-mother self, chatting on a Sunday morning with other parents about how I would definitely just nurse my forthcoming firstborn right in the service. Definitely I would, an older mom said, but of course I would use a cover for the sake of her middle-school-aged son.
Those are great questions, indeed.