breastfeeding in the supermarket

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Ok so I'm all for breastfeeding and think all mums should (assuming mother/baby are able to) but WALKING AROUND SAINSBURYS breastfeeding. . . Seriously? ?

Maybe it's only me that's shocked and I am not a mum myself if that makes a difference.
Don't get me wrong I certainly disagree with mums being ushered into toilets and the like but I felt a bit of modesty could have avoided awkwardness for both mum and others she may come across.

I have no issue with nudity either, i enjoy sunbathing topless and strolling around my home in various states of undress but I couldn't imagine ever feeling comfortable doing this myself

The last thing I expected on a Saturday afternoon trip to sainsburys was to round the corner of an aisle to come face to face with a woman with her top down and FULL BOOB OUT (I saw nipple and all!) strolling down the home entertainment aisle feeding baby. Yes I know this is what they are intended for but when men aren't allowed to enter shirtless is this not a bit much? Had she been sat outside the store on the benches or in a cafe (if they had one) I guess i or anyone else wouldn't have batted an eyelid

Just interested in others opinions

Is this taking things a bit far or perhaps it is just a multitasking achievement extraordinaire?

MrsGB, I didn't mention bottle feeding. I didn't talk about people dying. I didn't say there was anything wrong with seeing a breast as sexual. I didn't shame anyone or make them feel bad. I'm not sure why you're aiming those comments at me. But you carry on describing it as you like. If you don't want to acknowledge what language does to the debate, then that's fine but I work every day with women who are trying to make a successful go of breastfeeding. I'd like them to feel brilliant and like it's going well actually because they are trying ruddy hard. I don't like them feeling like some of the women on this thread, that they are judged for feeding in public, worried about the public gaze, criticised for doing their best. They meet this language. This wapping out of baps and dangling of tits and veiny norks and huge nipples and ostentatious feeding. Instead of feeling like they're feeding their tiny baby, they feel like their behaviour is socially unacceptable, laughable, inappropriate and wholly separated from the primary act they're aiming to achieve.

Do you prefer it to udders rave

Don't be a silly billy, OP.

The poster who is only going to breastfeed at home in front of dh - do you know how often little babies feed? You won't be able to leave the house for months, then. My seven month old only goes a couple of hours so I still wouldn't be going far.

Why does the baby have to refuse bottles to justify breast feeding in the supermarket? I've never tried a bottle on mine, why would I unless I needed to?

I breastfed 9mo DD in the special circle of hell that is a hot Primark queue on a Saturday lunchtime today. It was that or her continue to scream (I felt like doing it too!).

Mrs, it is laughable that you describe yourself as pro breastfeeding.

Oooo beasts is such a good word for tits. I'm Claiming it

To be honest, mine are pretty beastly at the moment. Flipping pregnancy.

I'm afraid we had 'heaving beasts' in Friends some years ago. They even had 'niffles'

Sorry, rave, Rachel Green got there first.

Now you could not bottle feed a baby walking around the supermarket.

Raceismyera I absolutely did not mean she should have opted for bottles over breastfeeding. I just re read my post and saw it unfortunately came across that way. My baby did refuse bottles but I guess I was just preempting what OP would say would have been a better option.

I have bottle fed a baby walking round Legoland.

I've seen people bottle feeding babies sitting/lying in those baby seats that they have on trolleys in supermarkets tobysmum

my beasts are sad

but you weren't pushing a trolley and selecting food off the shelves sparkling.

I agree that breasftfeeding should happen in appropriate places.

appropriate = when baby is hungry.

We all agree.

Brilliant

That makes sense Heidi, just wouldn't want anyone to think they shouldn't BF in public unless they've tried and failed at other ways to get milk in

Unless you have 3 arms it would be a lot easier to just take a seat to do it.

No I was half pushing the pram and trying to keep an eye on a three year old tobys. And realising Legoland wasn't all that.

I used to feel a hot jealousy of people who could feed their baby (however it drank its milk) while moving around.

Mine required singing and rocking and shooshing and screamed and writhed and went on and on and on and on. Every flipping time for months.

If I see a baby being fed and all are happy and relaxed I am happy for them all.

You're the type of woman I admire sparkling

I had to sit propped up with pillows in a specific arrangement with a V pillow on the top to BF. Doing it in public was never going to happen.

I've walked round Sainsbury's breast feeding before. quite tricky to also push trolley and chase preschooler but needs must. also breast fed while doing school run, frequent occurrence that because the baby seemed to think that his evening cluster feeding ought to start around that time.

DS2(18) said "it's a human being feeding another human being, get a fucking life!"

I am pro breastfeeding. I'm not pro women who think anyone who sees a bare breast, feeding a baby or not, is an 'idiot' or anything for not feeling a 100% OK with it. And I don't remember saying anywhere that I didn't agree with feeding in public. I have merely been having another perspective on the matter. I have found the rudest replies on here are the ones who are super proud of themselves and think only their point of view on the matter is vaild.

It's great you guys all think supermarket mum is brilliant, your brilliant, etc. It would be nice to have seen a bit more open mindedness as to why the op felt the way she did, instead of jumping on her from the off. However, nothing less would be expected of mumsnet, so carry on. I'm too tired to argue any further on the matter. If the op has any sense, they'll quietly disappear just after apologising to you all for being so obviously 'dim'.

You know what made me uncomfortable in a supermarket once? Two of the supermarket's security guards started to fight each other by the checkouts. Very uncomfortable. It was a lot harder to not look at that than a few inches of flesh, I can tell you.