I was telling my mom how I’m a little nervous to bring my 2 year old to my first OB appointment because what if he misbehaves when I’m getting the examination and vaginal ultrasound (not sure the proper name for it). I’m 6 weeks pregnant and there is no way my husband can take off and watch our son for every appointment so he will have to come with me.

My mom wasn’t worried about him misbehaving but that it’s inappropriate for my 2 year old son to see me naked like that... I’m just shocked. I mean, I know my mom grew up in a generation that was very modest (50s, 60s) very conservative era but lots of her comments shock me. She also thinks it’s sexualizing the breasts to breastfeed in public and we got in a heated argument over that. She thinks it’s appropriate to send a mom to a public bathroom to breastfeed her baby and there is no way it should be done in front of anyone especially men and children.

I get so fueled over it and just want to share that I live in Germany and they are so open and confident about nudity. It’s not sexualized at all. You can breastfeed anywhere and I mean anywhere I damn well need to feed my child... change your kids in public and no one will care at all... I hate how I still get uncomfortable changing in front of people at the gym or pool... it shouldn’t be that way and I can blame my upbringing. My mom made us so self conscious about being naked... I used to be uncomfortable even to be naked from the bedroom to the shower... my husband is German and he is so different about being nude. Honestly experiencing it from a Europeans males perspective is so refreshing. There is no way he sexualizes it when I breastfeed our child.

I just hope I don’t blow up at my mom cuz there is no way to really change her viewpoint. Does she really think her grandson would be traumatized by seeing me naked at the doctors?? He was way more into the iPad