To ask you all to boycott this establishment

[thisisnoton]

On BBC local news in NE tonight: sorry I'm too much of a luddite to link it.

Anyway, establishment is The Lakeside pub and restaurant in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear. A woman was told to leave whilst having a meal with her family for breastfeeding her 6 week old baby. She obviously stated that this was illegal, but they humiliated her by insisting she left.

If people dont want to see mothers bfing then THEY should stay indoors.

I used to feed my children in toilets and those horrible timed air freshners would go off leaving us breathing in disgusting chemicals......

I used to really enjoy Fabbys posts but its like her account has been hacked recently......

Mums BF all the time in the restaurant I work in nobody ever has a problem with it. In fact the mums are so discreet that most people don't even notice. As I'm PG with DC1 and hope to BF, I think I would be really shocked if I was asked to leave, does this really happen a often?

"Im speaking for those other patrons who complained, the majority of the peolple in that restaurant were offended, they didn't want to eat their dinner and be able to see a tit."

Hooray for Fabby! Champion of the ordinary tit-averse diner. Or perhaps just champion of complete tits.

You are like the culinary equivalent of the oft-quoted Man on the Clapham Omnibus.

Another idiotic post from theinet... God I'm glad I don't know people like you in real life

Kungfupanda... Love your post! Patron of compete tits! Lol!

A breastfeeding baby is a less off-putting prospect than watching a toddler chewing with mouth open and half of it falling down into a bib already sloshing in premasticated food and saliva. Or that might just be me.

I live in the north east and was never made to feel unwelcome when bf in any eaterie (and I did, lots)... Never went to this place, though.

When I fed DS I was dying for someone to come up and have a a go, but they never did. People either didn;t notice, or gave me nice encouraging smiles.

As that link to the AlistairSim thread shows, it's really nothing to do people actually seeing any boob, it's that people really struggle with the idea that a baby feeds by, shock horror, suckling on their mothers nipples. Because of course boobs are for much more important work than that, aren't they? Like titilating our menfolk and getting people into restaurants in the first place.

I can't believe that BF has been equated to shitting at the table. In Latin America I saw women BF everywhere, and saw very little of women dressed in skimpy clothes with everything hanging out. I think they've got their priorities right!

To pigletmania and other mums to be who want to bf...

Please come to us for support if you need it! I was terrified at the prospect of bf in public but it really is fine and I was always discreet and if anything people were always lovely! X

A little something to make life easier for the breastfeeding mum.

Why worry about being discreet?

Tits flopping everywhere in a non-sexual manner? Unsightly child hanging from your nipple?

Why, hand these out to save your blushes.

Breastfeeding discretion covers

Instead of buying a hooter hider, I think I'll take a stash of brown paper bags out with me, then I can offer one to cover up the offended member of the public.
This will have a two-fold effect:

1. It will hide the poor persons eyes from seeing boobs in all their scary natural glory (except you can't actually see much)
2. It will highlight the tossers for all the normal people out there. I might even draw a smiley face on the outside, to distract from the cats bum face on the inside. I could even stick a load of page 3 booby pictures on the inside, to remind them what boobs are really there for :o

Fabby - you should maybe stop commenting on breastfeeding, as all it does is show how little you know about it :)

Brilliant post acatcalledfelix

You are so Right

It is so strange and sad that bf is seen as so weird by some people. What a sorry state we are in when this wonderful and Natural way to feed babies is seen as odd

at favourolles! Brilliant! X

Hahaa! MissVerinder, what a good x-post :o

Faverolles

You+me= paperbag sales corps!

thanks harifullofsnakes where are you. Things have improved locally too since I had dd 4 years ago, there is a designated BF MW in the community, and our local Surestart centre has a bf support group. I also have MN too . Fabbys posts used to be great, it does seem like somebody has hyjacked her account.

Thats great favourelles

To put the OP out of her misery here is a link to the Look North programme - its about 9.30 mins in.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0070g1d

I need one missverinder

i wish ds3 was small enough for one of these

Piglet you'll be surprised at the size of the cahones you'll develop once LO arrives, and you're busy being a mum and not giving one about what other people think!

Thisisyesterday, I'm ordering one for Fabby

itsybitsy and thisisyesterday thank you for backing me up. Loved all the hilarious replies on here. I haven't bf in public yet with dd, and comments from some 'friends' as well as stories like this don't help. But reading a lot of responses on here has made me much more confident.

I'll be investing in some paper bags :)

hope so MissVerinder

Thanks to chaz too. Good that the BBC seem to be on her side.