are the places your not allowed to breast feed.

[ghostspirit]

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?

Like others have said you can breastfeed anywhere the baby is entitled to be - I wouldn't, for example, try to bf in an adults only spa.

sashh not a 12A because that's at your discretion (took newborn DC3 to The Hobbit: DOS last year ) but certainly an 18.

Aduaz you think it is acceptable to ask a mother to stop breastfeeding because it makes you uncomfortable. That is what you said. However, you are wrong: it is neither acceptable or reasonable. If breastfeeding makes you uncomfortable, you need to look or go elsewhere.

Of course I don't expect a woman not to bf just because I'm uncomfortable seeing it in a restaurant,

Is somewhat at odds with your earlier statements like

I don't think it would be unreasonable to ask you to stop

Then there a it this gem:
All I can think of is I'd try being discreet about it and maybe sit somewhere out of view of most of the restaurant if possible maybe.

It is you who needs to move to sit somewhere out of view.

Well clearly Aduaz is compromising by allowing the baby to feed in the same restaurant as he is

hellohello perhaps your friend finds it easier or the only way she can manage to breastfeed with clothes on? My boobs are huge and it was impossible to completely cover them as I was preparing to breastfeed, feeding and then taking baby off the breast, winding and doing bra back up. My priority was always my baby rather than the prudishness and possible dicky tummies of people around me!

Oh, and in a female changing room I get completely naked because that's what it's there for! Hiding my pubic hair behind a towel is such a faff and takes for longer than a quick rub dry with a towel, put towel down and get dressed!

Sorry, far longer

I find it weird when women spend what seems like an inordinate amount of time naked in changing rooms applying lotion etc rather than getting their clothes on. My priority is getting my underwear on although there are brief flashes of naked. However, it's my issue not theirs and I know they're perfectly entitled to take their time and do things differently to me.

Testing at my gym there's a woman who does that, and always makes sure to rub lotion into her Brazilian wax. She also likes to like naked with legs akimbo like a Christmas turkey in the sauna. Whatever floats your boat I guess!

I think the swimming pool one was a hygiene issue. You wouldn't eat your dinner in the swimming pool would you?

You wouldn't eat your dinner in the swimming pool would you?

A baby would.

And it is not unhygenic for the feeding baby or anyone else. Definitely not.

Totally different than an adult eating dinner in a pool.

Oh, the swimming pool thing... it was, I think, quite clearly argued on those old threads that there is no hygiene issue or health and safety issue around feeding in a pool. A lot of people wouldn't want to feed in a pool themselves but the Equalities Act would still protect those that do.

Wrt how much an individual woman exposes her breast when feeding, it's up to them. If anyone watching feels uncomfortable then they are able to solve this themselves by not looking.

Short answer: You can breastfeed anywhere.

Slightly longer answer: There will be a few places you are not allowed to breastfeed because it would be dangerous (you will not be allowed to eat or drink there either). I'm struggling to come up with one where you'd be allowed to take a baby in the first place, though.

It is a simple view but I have always thought that if an adult is allowed to eat there then a baby should be allowed to be breast fed there.

I realize that this takes us back in to the "swimming pool" discussions but it seems a simple way to figure this out.

Boney, I think if a baby is allowed to have a bottle there is a better test - after all, adults aren't allowed food and drink in, say, GP waiting rooms etc because of issues of cleaning up.

Aduz - you are joking? Someone Breastfeeding you would put you off your McDonald's? How weird.

yy to the bottle test, although there are complications because only the mother can give a bf so a feed might be needed where a bottle wouldn't be - I'm thinking of eg a lengthy medical appointment wher e a ff baby could be left with a sitter.

yonic

yes, I agree with that.

although there will always be exceptions to any rule of thumb.

Hellohello just don't look, your weird breast issues aren't anyone else's problem.

What few people here have mentioned is the idea that boobs are for sex.
Obviously p3 doesn't help. I think that idea has become so ingrained that some people are unable to think of breasts without thinking about sex. So that baby is feeding but the whole thing is a bit sexual - perhaps that's why some people get uncomfortable. Added to that the theory that women get aroused when bf-ing - WTF? Never worked like that for me, but certainly some people I knew suggested it, one even suggested I got regular iragasms from it! It's a context thing isn't it, if some hot guy (or gal) is sucking on 'em that might get you going, but a tiny baby not so much. But try explaining that to some people who have forgotten the primary purpose of breasts!

Bah! iPhone keyboard! Of course I meant orgasms!