https://headhearthand.org/blog/2011/09/07/the-role-of-nursing-mothers-in-training-pastors/  Informing Minds. Moving Hearts. Directing Hands. Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 https://headhearthand.org/blog/2011/09/07/the-role-of-nursing-mothers-in-training-pastors/#comment-3503 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:31:55 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=4019#comment-3503 [...] on last week’s blog post about pastors using nursing mothers as role models got somewhat sidetracked into a debate on [...]

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2011/09/07/the-role-of-nursing-mothers-in-training-pastors/#comment-3488 Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:25:25 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=4019#comment-3488 Nursing is an issue very close to my heart. My family left a church that had wonderful preaching because there were murmurings about infants in the worhsip service and because I was asked to leave the nursery because I was nursing.

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2011/09/07/the-role-of-nursing-mothers-in-training-pastors/#comment-3486 Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:38:25 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=4019#comment-3486 I couldn’t agree more! I freely nursed in public with no shame until we changed churches and had to nurse my son in a stairwell because I could “cause men to stumble” if I nursed anywhere they might be (even the nursery).
My husband thought it was a ridiculous policy and thought there could be nothing better for a young men to witness – that breasts have a practical, God-given function that is non-sexual – and that that enlightenment would help them overcome lust.

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2011/09/07/the-role-of-nursing-mothers-in-training-pastors/#comment-3484 Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:46:44 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=4019#comment-3484 A wonderful message, but I would add an admonition as well: nursing women should be encouraged to be with their husbands and families during the worship services. It seems like women who nurse can be vilified and alienated for wanting to nurse in church (or directed to “nursing rooms” to be segregated.) Breastfeeding is the single best thing for a baby, but simply because of this a woman shouldn’t feel denigrated to sit in the back room of a church.

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2011/09/07/the-role-of-nursing-mothers-in-training-pastors/#comment-3477 Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:23:44 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=4019#comment-3477 Thank you for the wonderful thoughts. You have taken some beautiful (watching my wife with our children) and made it even more special.

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