are the places your not allowed to breast feed.

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am i being unreasonable to think i can breast feed anywhere. When i had my last child i breast fed every where in mcdonalds, at the bus stop on the bus. only ever had one problem in mcdonalds. i was asked to stop breast feeding and i erm.... no. and that was end of it. But im wondering by law can i be asked to stop breast feeding in public? family restaurants, buses where ever really? and if i refuse what could happen?

Cross-posted. Sorry, I found the comment "Baffling" much more confrontational/condemnatory than you intended.

Oh, and I don't like nipples. Having to apply Lansinoh is horrible.

Back on topic: even if you don't like to see bf, you don't have to be a cunt about it.

Where does it leave those who are uncomfortable with it . Such as people who cannot have babies or have lost them

Aduaz, , if it makes you uncomfortable to see people eating it might be best to avoid restaurants. HTH.

Oh well, we all have our funny little ways, don't we?

Well, apart from me, because I would be absolutely perfect, if it wasn't for being too modest.

Pasithea, why would breast feeding be more distressing in that sad situation than formula feeding?

Inertia it's not all forms of eating that make me feel uncomfortable, just bf.

But you don't have to look, do you< Aduaz? You don't sit staring at the other people in the restaurant/cafe anyway, do you? It's not as though breastfeeding is noisy. If you're on your own, just look outside/elsewhere or read a paper or book.

Aduaz You say that not all forms of eating make you feel uncomfortable. What if the person sitting (not 'sat') opposite you ate with an open mouth? That would certainly put me off and I'd move to sit somewhere else. I've seen women breastfeeding and it's only from a second look at the content baby that I've realised that it's being breastfed.

If anyone asked a woman to stop breastfeeding, I'd be behind her in a flash with my brain half ful of law. She'd win and carry on.

Hello Aduaz. Just wanted to repeat as others have said that it is reasonable for you to feel uncomfortable at the sight of a woman breastfeeding. However you are not entitled to ask her to stop, move or otherwise harass her whilst she is feeding her baby. This is protected by law.

If you don't feel comfortable then look away, leave or read a newspaper so you can't see it.

Yonic. I don't know but for some reason it is. Is it the personal , bonding side of it. A formula fed baby may not be hers but a bf baby unmistakably is .

When my little one comes along, I will feel no more need to be discrete about feeding him /her in a restaurant than I am about feeding myself. If anyone feels uncomfortable seeing an adult eat, then they shouldn't be out in public without a blindfold. Ditto seeing a baby eat - and they need to eat even more often.

I have a friend who gets very uncomfortable around breastfeeding women. He says it is because it involves bodily fluids being mixed- milk and saliva. He is also a vegan so thinks of cows milk as pus and AI hormones and I think he has carried that over. Nothing to do with thinking of boobs as a sex thing. He however would never dream of asking a woman to stop but he would ask me to swap seats if I was facing the other direction.
As someone said above no one can control their feelings but they can control their actions.

I think you are getting confused as to what I actually said. I don't feel uncomfortable with people eating normally

There's nothing more 'normal' than breast feeding!

If it makes you uncomfortable, why are you looking?

Go and eat your meal in the toilet if it makes you feel that uncomfortable.

Breastfeeding is normal eating, if the people eating are babies !

"Suck on a tit". There is your issue in a linguistic nutshell.

people keep talking as though breastfeeding can be compared to regular feeding when they are rather different things.

They are exactly the same. Well, apart from the fact that a human baby is naturally designed to be breastfed and a human adult is not actually designed to eat McDonald's.

OwlCapone they aren't the same. No breasts are exposed when I eat a big mac.

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Actually, I've never exposed a breast in public when I've breastfed.

Aduaz you must realise that it's your problem and you would be very unreasonable to expect a breastfeeding woman to move to suit you. And for what it's worth I don't expose my breasts when I breastfeed. Why would I need to? My nipples are on show for the seconds it takes to put them my babies' mouths. That's it. And yes I tandem-feed my twins. You'd probably faint in shock if you saw that

Aduaz I don't like men with beards on their chins but no moustache, for me it's the visual equivalent of nails on a blackboard. Whose problem is it? Should they be required, out of consideration to my feelings, to shave?

Or should I look away and get over myself?

You can't help not liking to witness bf, but it's unreasonable to suggest it's anyone's problem but yours.

Oh Aduaz, I hate to be that person but: tough titty!