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?

I bottle fed from day one because I wanted to. What's your point?

user Do tell me what you think the agenda is!!
I haven't got the time to cut and paste every comment I have made about the rights of BF mothers.
You are goady & defensive when there is absolutely no need to be on this particular thread.
You have read the thread so you know that it has been said many times here that mothers have the right to BF, bottle feed or feed their DC anywhere they like.
The question is WHERE WOULD YOU NOT TO FEED??

I have tried to explain that I wouldn't feed my child anything in the toilet area of a cafe for example. I have also explained where the BF reference came from.
You are intent on an argument and are choosing to ignore most of what has been said on here.

Oh no!
Someone chose to bottle feed their baby!

Better call SS

Go for it somefarawaydream

Today 09:56 somefarawaydream - Oh why has the rhyming stopped?

I KNOW!!!!! The whole thread's been Ruined! (Stamps foot)

umbongo, I'm not buying it.

I fully support a woman's right to feed a baby the way she chooses.

Breastfeeding and breastfeeding in public is tied up with very complex issues. I have had a lot on involvement with both for many years.

Implicit in the OPs original question is the underlying idea the breastfeeding is unacceptable in some places.
And yes the fact that the OP has never breastfed in public does play a part in this discussion.

Bearfrills and Umbongo
Thank you!!!

Baby dear
I will feed you far and near
I won't feed you in a car
But I would feed you at a bar
On a farm will do no harm
Who gives a shit so long as you're calm

I have breastfed in M&S
Sometimes i breastfeed in a dress

I have breastfed in the park
I do lots of breastfeeding after dark

I have breastfed infront of my dad
If I can't feed my baby it makes me mad

I would not feed him on the loo
That's just minging its full of poo

This isn't actually as good as I thought it would be
It must be because I'm not actually that witty

user

Oh God! Please will someone help me explain to user what this thread is about! I'm too tired!

somefarawaydream

user, you're trying to spark a bungught on what has been a very pleasant thread. Seven pages of niceties and then you try to twist it into an argument by saying the OP has no right to discuss BF then asking why she formula fed (the answer to which is absolutely none of your business and shouldn't have even been asked).

If you want a BF vs FF debate, go start your own thread.

Bearfrills
For you too!

bungught

Bunfight.

Even my autocorrelation doesn't want one.

FFS.

Autocorrelation = autocorrect

Why are people who formula fed not allowed to have an interest in breast feeding?

They are, but it's never anyone's business how and where others choose to feed.

Could we just imagine for a second if a BFer came on and judged how a bottle fed baby was fed, and said "I BF from day one but wouldn't do X, Y and Z". Can't imagine many would be sticking up for her

Again, pinky, we're talking about where we wouldn't feed our babies. That includes both breastfeeding and bottle feeding. I bottle fed but still wouldn't feed in a toilet or in a moving car.

The OP clarified that she meant breastfeeding and bottle feeding. That she wouldn't feed a baby (with either method) at x, y or z location. She didn't say other people shouldn't, just that she wouldn't, and then other people stated their own preferences. There was no judging. There were some excellent rhymes. It was lovely.

Pinky The point you have spectacularly missed is that absolutely no one one this thread is judging anyone!

I'm with you, user
I, too, have had a lot of involvement with bf and supported many mothers who feel very self conscious. You can dress this thread up all you like but why would it even be on anyone's mind where someone should or shouldn't feed? Love the rhymes, but still find this thread unnecessary. As I've said previously, the U.K. is behind on this subject, many countries don't bat an eyelid.

Bearfrills it was lovely wasn't it?! (Sobs quietly)

Ham69
This isn't about should and shouldn't it's about would and wouldn't

I wouldn't take my baby to the theater (unless a child's production), gig/ concert (except festivals), cinema (except the mum and baby showing), formal evening restaurant or a child free event (though that may mean I do not attend, depending on what or who it is).

I wouldn't breastfeed:
In a moving car - my boobs aren't big enough. I have breastfed on the tram and would on other public transport.

Toilets.

Anywhere dirty, grubby, disgusting etc. Basically anywhere I wouldn't eat, unless absolutely necessary.

Bye bye dr Seuss thread

We was having a lovely time
Of reading people's funny rhyme