Just because I can BF anywhere doesn't mean I will.

[elodie2000]

I've been following the 'chucked out of west end show for BF' thread with interest.
It's legal to BF pretty much everywhere but I wondered where others avoid feeding or even taking their baby?

I wouldn't take my baby to
The theatre (adult only show) 😉
Loud music Concert
Nandos near me (and similar stuffy, smelly, overcrowded, dirty restaurants.)
Public toilets
Exam hall
Staff meeting/presentation

I wouldn't BF
in moving car
at side of swimming pool
at the side of a motorway
In a salon whilst having my hair/ nails done.

Basically, anywhere I myself wouldn't usually eat food, or dirty, noisy, smelly or overcrowded places. Adult or particularly formal places.

IABU to think that despite the law, just because you can doesn't automatically mean you should?

Is that you Dr Seuss?

You didn't say "in a taxi or a bus" though did you?

Babies need to be sat in a proper car seat in a car - it is the law.

If you didn't want a bf-ing argument, why didn't you post in chat?

Is this going to appear as an article somewhere?

I have breastfed two of my dc in a moving car- they were in their infant carrier car seat, I was sitting next to them in the back, without removing my seat belt or adjusting the or seat or straps I got a boob out and leaned/ contorted myself enough that the baby could latch on. Uncomfortable and only done when stuck in very bad traffic and the baby had already been screaming at high volume for some time. But possible.
I'll breastfeed just about anywhere I'm happy to take a baby to. And in all the years of doing so the only place I was asked to cover up was a bloody post natal clinic.

Dappled Too much hair flying around! 😄

It's all a bit 'Green eggs and ham', isn't it?

Go on; post in rhyme: 'I would not do it in a bar, I would not do it in a car ...'

I suppose if your boobs are dangly enough ...

I took my 6 week old to the hairdresser (at her invitation) and BF her. It was more discreet than usual because of the massive gowns they put over you.

He did get a little bit on him but it doesn't really fly around! During an eye test was a fun challenge!

alltouch Did the movement/motion make them sick? That's what I'd be afraid of!

I bottle fed both SC so my thread should have been about BF and bottle feeding! There are loads of places I wouldn't feed a baby!
This thread was triggered by BF theatre Mum - hense emphasis on BF laws.

Good for you op. I will bf wherever I fucking like.

I would do it in the hairdressers chair, I would do it everywhere.

I wouldn't do it in a stinky loo, I wouldn't do it where other people poo.

I can understand where you are coming from but at the same time you have to remember babies feed on demand. Obviously common sense should prevail when you decide to go out, mainly making sure the environment is safe for you and your baby. Most places are child friendly now anyway. If I constantly obsessed over where I can and cannot take my child I would never leave the house!

On the otherhand feeding your child in a moving car is dangerous and against the law if they are not in a car seat.

Why on earth would someone suggest feeding your baby in the toilets? Would you eat your dinner in the toilets? I wouldn't!

its not so much about the dangly-ness of your boobs when feeding strapped into a car, it's more about how much pain you can tolerate contorting yourself & how much stretch your nipples have. If your baby doesn't look like a frog catching a distant fly, you're doing it wrong

MadrigalElectromotive
You've missed the point! Is there anywhere you wouldn't? Because it's not good place for the baby to be or be fed? You sound really angry.

Mouldypeach 😄😄

I would not BF on a bus
It would not do in Toys R Us
I would not feed on the London Eye
(Projectile vomit in the sky)
I do not like BF outdoors
I do not like it, don't feed yours.

Lol @ MouldyPeach and KatieScarlett* .

This is a bit of an odd thread. My priority, in terms of feeding my babies, is that they get fed when they need it - it's pretty tricky to live your life being in the "right places" in advance of the next feed. Technically, in the UK women can feed their babies anywhere they have a right to be. As I understand it, a bf mother can't be thrown out of anywhere for feeding - she can theoretically be asked to leave for all manner of other things, whilst feeding a baby. Whether most venues want that bad publicity is another matter.

MouldyPeach 😄 You wouldn't have even stepped foot in theNandos near me!

Five weeks ago I wouldn't have worn a bikini in public, I also wondered how I was going to manage with BF... Now I discretely get my boob out whenever and wherever it is needed.

I can't think of a place I wouldn't BF except a public loo or moving vehicle (excluding plane or train). So anywhere else (for me) is reasonable to BF if I were to take baby there (over the next few weeks this will include a festival, wedding, swimming, restaurant and hairdressers).

If for some reason you had to be near a motorway, e.g. because your car had broken down, surely you would feed your baby if he needed it?

Katie 😄

All comments need to be in Seuss style from now on.