Switzerland - attitudes to BF?

[UniSarah]

We will be spending a few weeks in Switzerland, DS is BF. Anyone got any experience on genneral attitude to al fresco BF in Switzerland? Do i need to work on my put downs in German?

[LIZS]

Very liberal minded, it is really unlikely anyone will comment negatively. They don't do Mother and Baby room scenarios for feeding. If you feel uncertain just take a muslin or blanket to shroud him. I fed dd all over the place (Mc D's, shopping centres, trains, restaurants, ski slopes ...)and noone batted an eyelid !

[Mumie]

I live in Switzerland and also BF everywhere. No one commented but I got the general impression they were a bit embarrassed. Whenever someone saw what I was doing they gave me a WIDE WIDE berth averting their eyes - I was always covered because I used a muslin so there was nothing to see except a little baby - and if I was on a train nearby passengers would move immediately so I don't think they liked it much but no one ever said anything negative.

[Jas]

I've never had a problem....mostly in Geneva.
TBH, I never had any problems in the UK either, and also bf here

[zippyteedoodah]

just back from 10 day trip. Didn't have any problems, BF in train, airport (& plane), cafes & loads in mountain cafe between ski-ing (when MIL took over care), the staff must not have minded as by day 5 they gave us free drinks.

Let the waitresses have a cuddle and everyone will be delighted (we learned that gruebchen is german for dimples).

But we found that at altitude (village ~1800m) everyone gets thirsty and so dd went from waking once to 3 or 4 times/night [bleary-eyed emoticon].