Breast Feeding in Public..what do you think.

Sassycakes said:
I just remembered that my daughter would use a pump to fill a bottle and take it out with her if the baby needed to be feed and even if I watched my granddaughter my daughter would bring a bottle for me to feed the baby.
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I relied on bottles the whole time my kids were little, with the exception of a little breastfeeding with the first two. When planning an outing, I'd stick a bottle or two into the diaper bag, and away we'd go.

I have utmost respect for the mothers I've seen who go out of their way to be discreet and to cover up when breastfeeding. There's a lot to be said when it comes to class.
 

I could never understand what is wrong with it in he first place or why it even needs to be hidden or discreet?

Who thought that up?

Breasts are for feeding babies. That is their function. To be ashamed to use them for their purpose is as stupid as being ashamed to use your teeth to chew.

Why the shame?
 
RadishRose said:
I could never understand what is wrong with it in he first place or why it even needs to be hidden or discreet?

Who thought that up?

Breasts are for feeding babies. That is their function. To be ashamed to use them for their purpose is as stupid as being ashamed to use your teeth to chew.

Why the shame?
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I don't see it as shame so much as I do respect for those around you. Yes, we are all aware what breasts are for, but IMO there is no need to display them for all to see.

It's called class.
 

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OMG a partially exposed breast, sounds as bad as a partially exposed ankle way back in the dark ages. Sounds like baby feeding will have to be scheduled whether the baby is hungry or not. It might surprise parents that their kids that have access to the internet can see more in 1 minute than they could if they got up and stared at a mother breast feeding her baby.
 
Knight said:
OMG a partially exposed breast, sounds as bad as a partially exposed ankle way back in the dark ages. Sounds like baby feeding will have to be scheduled whether the baby is hungry or not. It might surprise parents that their kids that have access to the internet can see more in 1 minute than they could if they got up and stared at a mother breast feeding her baby.
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To each their own. Personally, and from the perspective of a woman (and as a mother that breastfed), I'm not interested in sitting down in the doctors office and seeing a mothers breast hanging out. Why don't I want to see it? Because there's no need for it.

As I mentioned previously, there is such a thing called class.
 
Aunt Marg said:
To each their own. Personally, and from the perspective of a woman (and as a mother that breastfed), I'm not interested in sitting down in the doctors office and seeing a mothers breast hanging out. Why don't I want to see it? Because there's no need for it.

As I mentioned previously, there is such a thing called class.
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It's not your need that has to be taken care of babies don't always eat at regular hours. Could be that it began with the fig leaf and fanatical religious nuts took it from there.
 
Have no problems seeing breast feeding in public. Have stopped listening to people that turn their noses at a mother feeding her child as nature intended.
Oh no.....a fig leaf....
:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
 
"Culturally inappropriate"? I lived in Germany when in the Army. First night there I saw a billboard advertising soap. A gal was washing her breast! There was nudity on TV. You know why they called Europeans? Because if you have to go "you'reapeein". Mothers thought nothing of breast feeding their young ones or going nude at a public beach. I think it's "culturally inappropriate" to create such a sexually frustrated society which we have done. Anyone ever do any research about why our society has so many pedophiles, perverts and deviants? A French tourist was chastised for putting on his bathing suit on a Miami beach. His response was classic: "Oh GROW UP America"!
 
Interesting revival of an old topic.

I think we are talking about two different issues. One is breast feeding, the other is exhibitionism. While I have no problem with anyone breast feeding in public, I find myself annoyed with people parading around, proclaiming how liberated, woke, with it, superior they are. So I guess my reaction to the woman would depend on how I perceived what she was doing.

Is she being blatant, in-your-face about it, trying to provoke an argument? The baby is merely a prop? Is she a foreigner from a more innocent culture? Does she have any other, more private places available in that restaurant, or is there no other choice? Is it appropriate to bring a nursing baby into a restaurant at all? And lots of other variables factor in. There is no universal answer to this question.
 
Sunny said:
Interesting revival of an old topic.

I think we are talking about two different issues. One is breast feeding, the other is exhibitionism. While I have no problem with anyone breast feeding in public, I find myself annoyed with people parading around, proclaiming how liberated, woke, with it, superior they are. So I guess my reaction to the woman would depend on how I perceived what she was doing.

Is she being blatant, in-your-face about it, trying to provoke an argument? The baby is merely a prop? Is she a foreigner from a more innocent culture? Does she have any other, more private places available in that restaurant, or is there no other choice? Is it appropriate to bring a nursing baby into a restaurant at all? And lots of other variables factor in. There is no universal answer to this question.
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The ball is gone... you knocked it right out of the park! Well said!
 
DGM said:
"Culturally inappropriate"? I lived in Germany when in the Army. First night there I saw a billboard advertising soap. A gal was washing her breast! There was nudity on TV. You know why they called Europeans? Because if you have to go "you'reapeein". Mothers thought nothing of breast feeding their young ones or going nude at a public beach. I think it's "culturally inappropriate" to create such a sexually frustrated society which we have done. Anyone ever do any research about why our society has so many pedophiles, perverts and deviants? A French tourist was chastised for putting on his bathing suit on a Miami beach. His response was classic: "Oh GROW UP America"!
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Exactly. Americans clutch our pearls at the thought of public nudity, but by-God, don't you think about taking away our lethal weapons.
 
muckferret said:
Good grief whats wrong with people today are they all void of common sense, its the most natural thing in the world
to breast feed a child no matter where you are, could be those that complained need educating, give me a break:single_eye:
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No-one is saying it is unnatural. We are all agreed that breast feeding is best for babies...that's not the problem. The problem is mothers being so public about it...it should be done discreetly. Perhaps more establishments could provide an area where women can feed their babies without attracting attention (though I suspect that drawing attention to themselves is all part of it. When I had a baby, I organised my life around the baby's feeds. NEVER did I feed my child in public).
 
Rosemarie said:
No-one is saying it is unnatural. We are all agreed that breast feeding is best for babies...that's not the problem. The problem is mothers being so public about it...it should be done discreetly. Perhaps more establishments could provide an area where women can feed their babies without attracting attention (though I suspect that drawing attention to themselves is all part of it. When I had a baby, I organised my life around the baby's feeds. NEVER did I feed my child in public).
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Well said, Rosemarie!
 
It's kind of interesting the differences of opinion on this topic. I'm certain it's my wife's influence. A couple of times when our kids were young we like others were out as a family when we came across a woman breast feeding. Our sons looked and as they did my wife told them that was the way women fed their babies. No big deal. As for me to stare that is way to disrespectful.

I wonder how others base their thinking on seeing an exposed breast when feeding a baby?
 

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