Breastfeeding "Rights"

Tennessee health officials and lawmakers actively support breastfeeding mothers. Tennessee passed a law in 2006 protecting a mother’s right to breastfeed a child 12 months or younger in any location, public or private, where the mother and child are authorized to be present;
prohibiting local governments from criminalizing or restricting breastfeeding. Another law requires employers in Tennessee to accommodate breastfeeding mothers at work. The Tennessee Department of Health and WIC program, along with hospitals and health providers, stress that workplaces and communities can work together to protect this important practice by establishing a breastfeeding-friendly environment.

Quote is from http://health.state.tn.us/newsreleases/080107.htm - bold mine.

That is a joke. Actively supporting breastfeeding mothers by protecting a mother's right to nurse in public until their baby is 12 months? Obviously, the people who wrote and passed this law were not familiar with breastfeeding relationships or facts. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends nursing until at least 2 years of age and beyond that as is mutually agreeable to the mother and child. There are nutritional and emotional benefits to nursing past one year of age. So, the Tennessee lawmakers really need to be educated in this area and the law needs to be amended to remove the limit on the age of the nursling whose right to breastfeed is protected.

Ugh. Blah. Blech.

I am not having a good day. In fact, it's a pretty bad day, although I feel better than I did earlier. I'm so very tired and my back hurts badly (I strained it and it keeps getting aggravated) and I missed two days of my anxiety medication. So, basically, I feel like crap and am having a lot of trouble handling things today.

Maybe once Brian gets home, I'll take a nap. Not sure. I just want the day to go away. I want everything and everyone to go away. Blah, blah, blah. I just want to hide and rest somewhere - all alone for a long time.

I need to call next week to make an appointment with the psychiatrist to see if I need my meds changed.

Maybe more later.

I forgot to say that I feel very lonely sometimes. I love my kids and Brian and he is my best friend in the world, but I really, really want a best girl friend. I have a friend that lives near me, but we're not super-close. Maybe getting closer, but I don't know. Some people are just easier to get close to than others and I often wonder if I like other people more than they like me. I feel so blah and "whatever" right now, but I would love to have some females here to have a very close relationship with. We don't even have any family around here, though it's really close friends that I'm wanting. OK, I'm done whining now. Sorry. *blush* *shrug* :) :-/