Did you have any negative comments from breastfeeding in public?

[Soontobemummy2019]

Just wondering if anyone had experienced any negative comments or attitudes from BF in public and if so, how did you deal with it?

No never and I have a large family and all my children were breast fed. The only comments I had were positive ones

None whatsoever.

If anyone had said anything I would have told them to fuck off

Though perhaps that's why no one dared

Not a single one. Got a few smiles from people but that was it. I never used a cover or a muslin over DD either.

None at all which has been nice. If anyone said anything I'd probably just verbally abuse them.

Nope none.

Nope, been feeding for 2 years, never had one negative comment

No. The only negative comment I’ve ever received regarding feeding was when I was bottle feeding one of our foster babies and a man told me he wouldn’t have allowed his wife to bottle feed.

Twat.

Nope. No one I know has ever had a negative comment about breastfeeding.

Nope. No comments whatsoever.

I think its one of those urban myths I don't know anybody who has breastfed and had a negative comment aimed towards them in real life. I'm sure it does happen, but only on very rare occasions. Like another poster if anyone dared to say something to my face or even within my earshot I would not hesitate to give them a peace of my mind!

Only from my ex MIL Members of the public either didn’t say a word or were lovely- and I breastfed DD2 til she was 3!

Nope. I bf 3 babies till 9-10 mos each and no comments except positive.

Yes, me. I fed my DD at the side of a swimming pool (out of the water) and I was asked to do it in the changing rooms as someone from the cafe ( which overlooked the pool) had complained.

To be fair it may have once been more of an issue a generation ago so I wouldn't call it a myth.

I got a few dirty looks, exaggerated huffs and a couple of women openly laughing at me. It is relatively unusual to breastfeed where I live though. Luckily I didn't give a shit and just amused myself at the stupidity of the women drinking cow-boob milk in their coffee but thinking there was something wrong with what I was doing

I didn't deal with it at the time, I was mortified. Luckily I was a member of a breast feeding support group and they rebuilt my shattered confidence.

Never had negative comments in public.

Have had negative comments from some family members, especially as dd is getting older.

Nope - never experienced any negativity at all, and none of my friends have either.

Never has any negativity either.

None from general public, plenty from my family.

I never had a single comment either.

Once.
My newborn DS had undiagnosed CMPA and reflux, so if he was awake, he was screaming.
I was waiting to be seen at the gp surgery and he was screaming. I was trying to get him to latch between screams, and an old man tutted at his wife and said “maybe it would shut up if she’d feed it properly and give it a bottle”
Weapons grade cunt.

Never, and nor has anyone else I know. Lots of stories of family 'helpfully' undermining breastfeeding ('wouldn't they settle/sleep better with a bottle') but none at all of people criticising public feeding.

I think its one of those urban myths I don't know anybody who has breastfed and had a negative comment aimed towards them in real life.

Calling it a myth because it didn't happen to you is pretty ignorant and dismissive of other women's experiences.

Not what you were asking, OP, as my milk never came in at all, despite weeks of doing all the right things -- but I had quite a few negative remarks made about me bottle-feeding in public, all from total strangers, one or two really unpleasant, and the absolute worst from two other mothers of young babies in a café, which I will remember to my dying day, it was so cruel. It made me feel absolutely awful, when I was disappointed enough about not being able to BF anyway.

A breastfeeding friend had a couple of negative reactions while I was with her -- once in a doctor's waiting room, and once she was asked not to breastfeed at the back of a church service, by one of the sidesmen. Both remarks from older men, and the baby in question is now 16.

Nope. Loads of lovely smiles from (mainly) older ladies though.

I always said if I received a comment I'd unlatch DS, let him cry loudly for a moment and ask which they prefer. Never had opportunity to do so.