I don’t care if I see a woman breastfeeding. It doesn’t make me feel uncomfortable, nor would I consider it something intimate. Private maybe, but definitely not intimate.

Christine, PSB, and Lauren I agree!

Breastfeeding is natural and it’s fantastic if a woman can do it. But I don’t “want” to see it being done. That’s just me, I guess, and no one can convince me that I think otherwise. Just this morning at work, I went to go into one of our spare offices and a woman I didn’t know was sitting in there breastfeeding. Good, she’s feeding her baby, but I wasn’t all happy and excited to see it. I turned around and left because when I was bf’ing, I certainly didn’t want an audience.

Christine and PSB, ITA with both of you. I plan on breastfeeding my children and will probably have photos of myself nursing taken for personal remembrance, but I too think it’s odd that people actually want to see women breastfeeding. I don’t understand the thrills and excitement that arise when photos of women breastfeeding appear on this site or anywhere else. It is a beautiful, intimate experience, and you can promote it without being explicit.

Anyway, Naomi seems very thrilled with Alexander and motherhood in general, which is wonderful. I remember her talking about how she went through such a hard time when she first moved to Hollywood that she actually contemplated driving her car off a cliff and ending her pain. Thank God that she is in such a different place now.

I think nursing pictures are very sweet. I took a few, but I keep them in my private photo album for just my husband and me. I’m not really interested in sharing it with the world — even though I nursed just about everywhere and don’t find breastfeeding embarrassing or strange. Nursing photos are great though, because they encourage breastfeeding as the norm, but not everybody feels like sharing those intimate moments. I would LOVE too see any photos of Sasha and Naomi. The baby is beautiful and she seems like a wonderful and loving mother. I hope she gets her wish to have a few more babies.

Christine? Why are you equating breasts and breastfeeding with sex? Or getting a thrill? Breasts are just giant (or in my case tiny) sweatglands! Anytime a Mother is bonding with her child is a beautiful serene sight to see!
We have got to get out of this self destructive, unhealthy attitude towards naked bodies and sexuality…

I nursed both my kids, but I don’t have any desire to watch other women do it. If I see it in passing, I don’t care, but I don’t get a thrill from it and find it creepy when people “want” to see pictures of it or call it beautiful when they see it being done. Sex creates life, which is beautiful, but I don’t want to watch that being done by strangers, either. JMO

She is clearly a “hands on” mother and very much in love with her child and in tune with what’s truly important. It’s refreshing to see a celebrity with both feet clearly planted on the ground like Naomi. I can understand someone in her position having a nanny, but somehow I suspect the nanny has a lot of time on her hands!

also – in regards to alexander going by sasha – if they truly are trying to go back to liev’s ukrainian roots – every name has a “diminutive” form – which is what the person goes by… alexander : sasha, mikhail : misha, natalia : natasha, etc…

Why not just name him Sasha instead of Alexander Pete?

Sarah’s note: From the other interviews, it sounds like it was important to them that he have the family names.

I doubt that he was really a surprise. Naomi has been spotted going to fertility clinics a few times before she got pregnant. Liev also said that he pumped his fists when he found out she was pregnant and said something about being relieved that he was not “shooting blanks” and he could get his girlfriend pregnant. So I think they wanted to get pregnant all along, maybe the timing of it was a surprise. Little Sasha sounds like my son who nursed every hour at this age. It’s so tiring and yet so rewarding. I wish they’ve done the People exclusive.. I’d love to see some professional shots of Naomi and the baby or the baby nursing. It would do a lot of good to encourage other mothers to nurse if we could see more celebrities nursing and make it look like it’s a normal, healthy thing instead of something one should hide.