One great perk of breastfeeding is that you get to wear sexy, easy access, nursing clothes. Most nursing clothes are designed to allow your infant easy access to the breast. This feature is a great convenience, but it also can lead to inadvertent breast flashes in public if your nursing clothes are not properly secured after feeding your infant. If you find people following you around while out in public, check your shirt.

You get to join the stylish trend of baby wearing. Breast fed infants often nurse more frequently than bottle fed infants. This can lead to the feeling that your child is always attached to your breast. Baby wearing can be seen in malls, grocery stores and parks across the nation. Baby slings, swaths and holsters are sold that encourage a nursing mother to flaunt her baby wearing style. Some even offer anytime access to the breast- a very nice perk for the infant.

Public breast feeding can be especially enjoyable for the modest mother. Not many experiences can top having a well meaning onlooker whip off your nursing blanket to get a peek at the newborn happily nursing underneath. Breastfeeding mothers can spot a lurker a mile away. These bystanders seem to be hypnotized by the sight of a public breast feeding and are unable to tear their gazes away during the process. Some lurkers are hoping to get a glimpse of an exposed breast, others are just curious- all can make public breastfeeding uncomfortable for a nursing mother.

This brings us to the classic sore nipples. There is just no other experience that compares to allowing a hungry infant to chomp, suck, chew and grab a breast that is plagued by bruised, cracked and sore nipples. No amount of prenatal education or coaching by the La Leche League can prepare you properly for sore nipples- it must be experienced to be appreciated.

These humorous benefits of breastfeeding do not phase some women. They plow ahead with the documented positive benefits of breastfeeding in their sights. Learning to take the humorous and often unpleasant benefits of breastfeeding in stride will help new mothers cope.