AIBU to breastfeed in a restaurant?

[lovetomoan]

DH says I am, that people are paying to eat and not to see my breast. AIBU or is he BU?

Was your DH in the restaurant with you at the time? What was his solution to the hungry baby problem?

YADDDNBU. I fed my dc everywhere I went! (v. discreetly!0

It's an eaterie, let the baby eat.

Yanbu. I feed everywhere now, it doesn't even cross my mind anymore what people might think.

The suggestion of being 'discrete' always makes me laugh slightly. Have you ever seen a woman actually strip in preparation to feed? You see more flesh walking down the street than you did with a nursing mother.

If u flap ur bangers about then yes. If u are discrete baby will be fed while either anyone notices or they are still guessing. Advise to do once baby's feed has sped up at a few months old.

Maybe op's husband has something like this in mind

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Now that would be a tad OTT

Yanbu.

spuddy I fed topless at my wedding ok in toilets but they were v posh

Also BF at a funeral

"flap ur bangers about" - how very delightful.

I remember feeding in a restaurant once and my DH only noticing when I asked if he'd help cut a particularly difficult bit of food. It doesn't have to be obvious

SirBoobAlot

Things like this Hat are not very discrete...

YANBU. Everyone else is eating so why cany your baby? (probably alredy been said havn't read the whole thread)

I breastfed in the back of a church service on Christmas Day...in a back office but with huge glass window onto the main bit where the service was (sorry I don't know the lingo, I an an atheist, was there to support DH in having baby DD experience her first Christmas service as he is a completely lapsed Catholic except for our wedding and Christmas services, somehow he is Catholic for those. No one said a word.

YADNBU to feed your baby wherever and whenever you please, 'discrete' or not.

I love how the hat comes in various shades. I reminded me of the nipple dye thread.

I tried to knit one of those hats so many times for DS.

YANBU

Unless you're stripping off, waving your boobs around yelling 'look at meeeeee!' I would have thought most of the other diners would be too busy eating their own meals/minding their own business to take a whole lot of notice.

YANBU - I fed ds in pizza hut recently. The manager came over asking if I'd like a glass of water as he knew his wife got very thirsty when feeding their baby :)

In the last week I've also fed him on the chairs in Argos while waiting for my item to be brought up, at the bank while sorting out a problem with my account, on the bus, at a public meeting and in dd's head teacher's office (was going to feed him in reception area but she offered as she had a comfy chair)

Breast fed babies are fed on demand and they don't care where they feed and neither should you

So you and dh are in a restaurant eating but your baby can't eat or drink because he thinks people will see your breast?! God what an idiot. Does he know what breasts are for? You need to have a word. The more people that breast feed in public and normalise it for people like your husband the better.

Your DH is a knob IMHO.

YANBU

LTB!

Does he not see how cuntarsey ironic his remark was?

Asking you not to feed your baby... In a restaurant?

Did you give him the finger? If not do it now and ask if he would like to swivel on it. Twat.

Bf is so much more convenient. If DH mentions it again perhaps he should go eat in the men's so he is in exile too. Silly man, he'll get used to it.

YANBU

I am sorry to say that your DH needs some education.

YANBU

Carry on.

YANBU where does he expect you to eat if not a restaurant, given that baby needs to feed when and wherever they like.

Admittedly, if you flop your boob on the table and offer it around as an alternative dessert, people might have a problem...