scarred for life!

[Bubblingbrooks]

not really, but...
Here is the deal. I support breastfeeding in public. Babies must eat, and one should if at all possible feed them the natural source.
I am even fine with nursing without a cover!

However!

Please do not wear a tube top, and pull it all the way down on both sides to feed your babe!

 

[PamsPride]

No way!!!

 

[freemotion]

This type of behavior does a lot of harm to acceptance of public breastfeeding. I'm all for it, with a modest cover. Although breastfeeding is not sexual.....let's face it, breasts are and should not be wagging to and fro in public!

 

[savingdogs]

I agree! I do also support breastfeeding however and think that people should "get over it" if they are embarrassed about seeing a woman's breast with a baby attached, that is what they are FOR.

However, breast-feeding moms pulling down tube tops would just be a little shocking to most folks and is too extreme. I always found it was easier to "hide" you were nursing a baby by sliding the baby under a shirt that pulls up, not down or open, and the fabric itself covers your breast and the baby's mouth.

I became rather militant about this topic when, as a new first-time mother, I took my fussy newborn out of a restaurant and into their women's bathroom lounge, you know, where they sometimes have a little couch in the ladies room? I sat down on the nice little couch and proceeded to nurse my baby discreetly (NO tube tops, I had my whole front covered under a lacy shawl). A woman comes in and sees me and says in disgust...."I can't believe someone is nursing there baby in here." To her companion. I look up, a little shocked, and she says to me, "You should take your baby into the bathroom STALL to do this!" I have forevermore tried to picture what she described, sitting on the toilet and nursing her?

I certainly did NOT do that, instead I sat there with her and finished with steam coming out my ears. But since I later nursed her to age one year and nursed both boys to almost two years of age, I used it as the story about ridiculous people whenever the topic of breastfeeding in public has come up. I think it was sad how out of touch that woman was with what the human body was designed for, and nursing your baby in a couch in a woman's restroom is certainly modest.

I found that while I could be more "open" about breastfeeding over time, people around me were never comfortable with it, even family members, so I always nursed my babies rather privately. I read that in Europe, people are more open about it, and in some third world countries, some babies are nursed until they were five! I took a lot of flack for nursing a two-year-old. I'm not sure why that was so shocking. But I have very fond memories of nursing all three of my children and feel sorry when I hear women choose not to use that method to feed their infants, it is such a wonderful bonding.

 

[FarmerChick]

scarred for life?
Nope, not over seeing a booby.

but yea-- modest cover please. "I" don't require seeing any part of your boobs at all in this lifetime!
not sure how the guys will answer

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

Historically, babies were not weaned till age 3 This is the time that the little ones gut is fully matured.

I have come across the nursing in the bathroom as the only acceptable way many times. Quite disgusting in my opinion.
If that were ever said to me, I would feel required to ask them if they prefer eating on the throne as well.

But yeah, fully topless is not a good idea.
I understand why they do it. Since the law protects them, they are going to push the envelope all the way.
That does not make it right though.

 

[freemotion]

A women's restroom lounge is the perfectly appropriate place to nurse a baby, sheesh! On a germy toilet? Double sheesh! Yup, most people are out of touch as to where food comes from, but for a woman to say that in a ladies' room is beyond ridiculous.

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

scarred for life?
Nope, not over seeing a booby.

but yea-- modest cover please. "I" don't require seeing any part of your boobs at all in this lifetime!
not sure how the guys will answer

Hence my qualifier

 

[hoosier]

I think some people just want to cause a disturbance.

Several years ago, I can across a woman sitting on the base shelf in the corner of my department in the store where I worked. She was hunched over with her head down, and I stopped and asked if she was okay. She tore into me and ripped me a new one about how it was her right to breastfeed anywhere she wanted. I truly had not seen the baby in her arms or I would have known what she was doing. While she was modest, she did seem to be looking for a fight.

 

[abifae]

My only protest is things like that are WHY they ban breastfeeding in public.