Reading thru the "how low will u go??" thread got me thinking about this topic.

Does it bother you to see a woman breast feeding in public?? I have seen this on airplanes, in restaurants, the mall, many places. It doesn't bother me unless the woman is being a bit of an exhibitionist about it. There is a way to breast feed where people don't even really know that is what you are doing.

your thoughts???

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I breast fed in public, but I always had a blanket over my shoulder.

I always tried not to breastfeed in public and if I did I covered up, I dont think anyone would of known what I was doing.. I dont think there is anything wrong with breastfeeding in public, If its done discreetly. Alot of people are always saying there is always the bathroom..would you want to eat your lunch in the bathroom? I wouldnt.

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I breastfed in public, used a blanket.
Just looked like they were sleeping.

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I didn't feel comfortable breastfeeding in public, but that is just me. My guys were always throwing themselves around and pulling the blankets off....

Breastfeeding is the most natural thing in the world. It bothers me a lot that people are offended by it. We can sit around all day watching people kill each other but a breast is shown and oh God you would think it is the most damaging thing in the world.
Ridiculous! God made breasts to be milk receptacles.

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I breastfed in public. Even if I didn't cover with a blanket (which I didn't do after a month or two), you really couldn't tell- I would have people walk up to me to look at the sleeping baby and I would have to tell them that she was actually eating!

The way I see it, some people walk around in public exposing far more than I ever did when I would be breastfeeding.

If it's discreet, it's not problem. I do not like women who toss their breast out and feed in public and YES, I've seen it. My mom has had a women come into her office and pull her boob out and lay it on her desk while she uses mom's desk as a "boppy" like pillow OMG!!!!

I was BFing with a blanket in a restaurant when a waitress came by and told me "the man in the booth over there is uncomfortable with you feeding the baby in the dining room. He asked that you do that in the bathroom". I told her to tell him "if he'll go eat his dinner in the bathroom, I would be more than happy to feed my babies his dinner in the bathroom." She giggled and went over....boy was he mad LOL You couldn't even TELL I was feeding my kid (even the manager of the place said so).

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It is a perfectly natural thing to do. I don't have a problem with it (normally). There are always the exceptional situation where the mother is wanting to get attention (at least in my opinion) and is making a show of it. That is when it bothers me.

I breasftfed in public.

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I agree with most everyone else. I tried not to, but I did when necessary. It doesn't bother me as long as it's discreet. I also agree that when done discreetly, most people don't even know.

Lisa

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with 2 of my kids I was able to but the other two even as infants domehow they arms would wave things and grab the blanket off everytime.

I breastfed everywhere, never used a blanket. I never "whipped anything out" but if you were rude enough to stare at me you might have caught a glimpse of something as my baby latched on.

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It drives me crazy when people comment that it is rude or obscene to breastfeed in public.I find it natural and beautiful. I breastfed in public and found myself trying to be as discreet as possible, not because I was shy or felt it was wrong, but because I didn't want to offend anyone who had a problem with it, even though I didn't understand their discomfort.

I am not bothered by it at all. It's one of the most natural things. I wish I could have breastfed my girls, but it didn't happen. I sometimes felt a bit jealous of the mothers who could breastfeed, but my girls are happy and healthy so I guess that's all that matters.

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Nothing wrong with it, that's what breasts were made for lol...but I wasn't that comfortable back when I had a baby and I didn't do it in public. If I had a baby now, I might!

But once I was at a friend's house - she had gone outside to hang laundry or something and I went to sit down in her
living room and bf'd, with my shirtflap and a little towel covering us...she came back in a few minutes later, looked horrified & asked if she could just give me formula for the baby so I wouldn't have to 'bother with all that'.

OMG I was taken aback...and it was just the two of us at the house (and her toddler who was in a playpen and paying no attention to me lol) I am not sure why people are so weirded out, or if she thought it was weird to do it in front of her toddler, I don't know, just don't get it! Nothing wrong with it imo that's what they are for...

When I was breastfeeding my first child, I was so self-conscious about offending people, not that I thought I didn't belong out in the open. So my first child and I spent many a family get-together by hanging out alone in a room down the hall from all the fun. That stunk!

For my next two kids, I got up the nerve to stay put. I just found the most comfortable chair, and nursed my babies. Nobody seemed to care, and I refused to feel banished to another part of the house. At one of my inlaws' parties, my SIL did come over at one point and said "You *could* go down the hall to our bedroom if you'd be more comfortable there..." I just thanked her and said I was fine where I was. I actually wore a swing styled shirt most of the time, so my babies and my breast were adequately covered.

There are always those who are just feeling *icky* that they know a baby is breastfeeding. It isn't anything they can see - it's just that they realize it's happening, and it makes them uncomfortable. They are the ones who just have to get over it, IMHO.

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I think if a woman is discreet about it by covering herself with a blanket, it's perfectly fine.

I remember one time in Sunday School my husband was teaching and we had a new family in the class and she had her infant with her. She discreetly covered herself with a blanket and the baby nursed while DH was teaching. On the way home, I asked him if he had noticed her and would you believe the man didn't even notice she was nursing?!!! LOL!!

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You ladies do realize that breastfeedng is an intimate act between mother and child, right? I would venture to guess that it's the intimacy of the act that many people feel uncomfortable about.

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I can see the point of view that it IS an intimate situation, but it's not an inappropriate one, IMHO.

A baby needs to eat. It is not supportive of women who are doing their best to breastfeed their babies to suggest that a public place might be a hostile environment to nurse a baby.

I strongly feel that women need to support each other on this point.

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This is probably more along the lines of how I feel.

I don't undertsand folks that think it's disgusting, it's a completely natural event!

"Uncomfortable" isn't really the right word, at least not for me. More like I feel like I'm intruding if I see it. It's a wonderful thing, between a mother and a child. If I've ever seen a Mother breastfeeding, I look away quickly, but not out of disgust, out of respect for their moment.

If that's cheesy, so be it, it IS bonding.

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there used to be this woman down the street from me who would have her shirt up to her arm pits both boobs hanging out flopping along as she walked down the street baby on one arm breast feeding! but many of my friends breast feed in public and kept there boobs to themselves and not always covered with a blanket and no one I knew of were offended! not me!
I wish I could have breast feed but was unable to!

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I actually think it's cool if I come across a woman breatfeeding her child. THere's nothing more natural and nuturing. I think it's a beautiful sight.

While I agree that breastfeeding is a natural thing and I applaud any of you that choose to breastfeed, there are some places that are better to feed in public than others.

I work at an elementary school. We had a mom that used to show up almost daily early with her young baby and breastfeed in the front office. No blanket, no anything. Now we offered her a room to use for her to feed the baby but she refused. Let me tell you, every child that walked into the front office got an education on boobs and breastfeeding. It got to the point where we used to have the same 4th & 5th grade boys "stopping by" the office at that same time every day. We couldn't say anything to her of course, it was her right to feed her child, but I bet if some other parents had seen it, and seen that other children were seeing it, they would have totally freaked out.

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I BF wherever the baby wanted to eat (no blanket either). We BF in restaurants, all over Disney World, on rides, at shows, the works.

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I don't feel a mother should be inconvienced if she needs to feed her baby, but we had one that would stop in during lunch time with 4th and 5th graders, plop herself on the "stage" steps (cafeteria doubled as an auditorium) and feed her "baby", that could walk up to her to be fed.

That I didn't believe was appropriate, but we all have our own opinions. Doesn't mean I am right...

I'm just curious/confused -- why were these moms at school? I don't have a problem w. public BF -- I did it with all 3 of mine -- I just don't get why these moms were spending so much time at school.

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