Attitudes to public breastfeeding in Germany

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Does anyone know what the attitude towards public breastfeeding is like in Germany in general?

Yy I bfed everywhere and had several telling offs about my freezing baby. Take a kin g size duvet for the pram and you might be left in peace.

This post has cheered me up!

Have been here 4 weeks and I back everything which has been said. I found the general attitude to children much more welcoming and matter of fact understating with regards to children's needs.

I have always complained about the cold in the U.K. and have wrapped up myself and the children as warm as possible. It's been a bit of a surprise finding myself the parent whose child does not have a hat and thick jacket at the playground (on a scorching September afternoon!).

That's hilarious about the cold babies!

My DC were all born in Germany and ebf. I never had any negative comments at all. It's much more accepted than in the UK, from what I've seen. I was in North Germany, though, not sure what it's like in the South.

I'll second the comments about keeping a baby warm, though - a baby without a hat may as well be entirely nude in a snow storm for how people (especially the elderly) will react . Having appropriate outerwear is an absolute necessity to the Germans. My DH makes my children wear waterproof trousers over their school clothes to walk to school if there's even a slight drizzle... (in the UK).

Whatever you do, just don't cross the street when the light is red. You will be told by anyone in the vicinity to THINK OF THE CHILDREN

Phew! I'm glad I have a sheepskin! I will be packing that then, along with all his socks and hats!

The hat needs to tie under the chin and a buggy type pram is frowned upon for babies of less than nine months.

Fine, completely normal to breastfeed here at least up to a year or two, which defo includes in public.

Love reading about other countries!
Can I just throw in though, that all the positive / not a problem comments about Germany was exactly my experience in the UK since 2009 and I fed my child publicly until about 3.

Same Ellisandra.

Yes. Agree with everyone. I fed 9 month old DD all over Munich a few years ago, including in the big beer garden (Englischer Garten perhaps?) while drinking beer and in Dachau. No one batted an eyelid.

Lots of old ladies commented that she didn't have socks on. It was June and quite warm.

So true about the cold babies! Took my daughter to Munich Christmas markets when she was 10 months old. She was in a snugglesuit and a hat (normal clothes under suit) with a blanket in a forward facing buggy and we got some very odd looks.

I’m about the cold babies - it is so true.

My ILs were horrified that I didn’t dress Dd in woolly tights, a long sleeved vest, trousers, top, cardigan and snow suit before wrapping her up and putting her in the pram when they came to visit us (in the UK). It was about 14 degrees in November - MIL carried a baby hat in her coat pocket because she thought poor DD would get a chill in her kidneys...

As for BF - I don’t think they are bothered.

I FF, but no one ever commented about how me or my SIL (she breast fed) fed our babies... just whether they were wearing enough layers..

double helix . I remember an elderly lady screaming at me to "think of the children" when I first moved to Hamburg and crossed the road on 'red'. Still tickles me. There were no cars anywhere in sight on a sleepy Sunday morning in a very quiet area.

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A cyclist once stopped to berate me for crossing on red when there was no traffic it sight at all
"Und mit Der kinder!!!!" To compound my crime