To think that breastfeeding in a moving car is unsafe?

[BertieBotts]

Have just seen a discussion about this on another site. It seems a fairly common practice - and one I admit I did when DS was tiny and couldn't be settled any other way and XP wouldn't pull over because he was a cock.

But, looking back our of the fog of new-motherhood, sleep deprivedness, baby screaming hormone-induced desperation, it was a totally mad and stupid thing to do. I might as well have taken him out of his seat, if we'd crashed the full weight of my body would have gone right into him, the seat wouldn't have taken it, and he could have been seriously injured.

So I mentioned this on the site thinking that perhaps everyone who did it had been in the same sleep deprived and not quite thinking state that I was and hadn't thought about it rather than actually believed it was safe, but no, apparently it is possible if you just turn to the side and the baby turns their head to the side.

I have NEVER seen a car seat which would allow for this - not one for a few-month-old baby, especially. Surely it's impossible to breastfeed safely in a moving car, full stop.

I like to think I am pretty chilled on the whole, but I spent an inordinate amount of time researching the right, and the best seat for DD both as a newborn and the extended rear facer we've just ordered for her now she is older. I've been in a high speed crash, it isn't pretty. You can be the best driver in the world, but all it takes is one pillock. Not worth the risk for something avoidable, I'd never forgive myself.

I've done it, without taking baby out of the seat or unstrapping myself. But not while driving

I have also fed while walking round, while baby is in the shopping trolley (that was a bit painful but it made the shopping easier because she then went to sleep) while washing dd1's hair... floppy breasts make it easier.

I did it alot with dd, i was strapped in rear passenger seat, she was in rear facing seat.....it was a fancy pants safe one, i also borrowed and tried two other designs, she screamed blue murder from the moment she was put in until she got out and continued to do so until old enough for a forward facing seat.....at the time it seemed far safer than crashing the car due to the screaming baby distraction.

I'm not sure how I would risk assess it now, thankfully ds sat in his car seat like a normal child.

DS2 absolutely hated being in the car, and could scream for England,so the only way we could travel for the first year was with me sitting in the back, next to the car seat with my infinitely elastic boob jammed in his mouth.

I've also done the feeding-while-pushing-a-shopping-trolley thing