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A huge number of people have children during their lifetime (89% according to one quora answer [0]), and since babies require daily breastfeeding multiple times a day for at least six months, that's a lot of instances of people needing to talk about breastfeeding.

[0]: https://www.quora.com/Children-What-percentage-of-people-bec...

My point is emojis help us visualize things - try to give us an actual image instead of a word. But I imagine lots of people don't in particular want other people to visualize them breastfeeding.

lots of people don't want others to visualize them dancing but the dancing emoji just isn't for them.

I wonder if Unicode will eventually just contain every conceivable image that anyone would ever want to reference.

Yeah... I feel like emojis were a mistake.

emoji weren't a mistake (given unicode's goal of being able to represent all possible written text), expanding them beyond the original set was.

Nursing mothers and family of nursing mothers.