Does anything think this is reasonable?

[FrazzledRockRed]

Tiny new baby, aww. In the supermarket.
Walking down an aisle.
Boob out completely trying to get the baby to latch.
Wtf.
Does anyone think this is normal? I bf myself for the record.

I've done it, fed my babies like this, walking either holding baby at boob until I figured out how to position the sling so they could feed on the go.
YABU as it is highly unlikely you would not post that you saw a woman giving a baby a bottle of cow milk in a supermarket.

YANBU OP, I think it's completely inappropriate to have your breast out in a supermarket but to each his own.

She had her ‘whole boob’ out! A whole boob - faints.
OP, why are you so upset at the sight of a boob feed a baby. For me, that should be normal in any context. Fear not the boob.

I think it's completely inappropriate to have your breast out in a supermarket

But if she struggles to latch without doing this and she was in a hurry and didn't have time to find a place to sit, what do you suggest she does?

Not normal in the sense that it is a usual sight and something you would expected to see happening more often than not. However it is not wrong, odd or weird to breast feed in public but sadly many women belive others will think so, meaning they will never do it. Hence it will probably never be the norm, and that is a shame.

I actually did this a couple of days ago whilst thinking about this thread and smirking because my teething, under the weather baby wouldn’t stop crying. It was super busy in there and guess what, not one person noticed as far as I could tell, it at least they just didn’t care. Because smart, sensible people just don’t.

This is why breast feeding rates are so low because people feel that they will be judged for feeding their child in public!!

I was told that I should go and feed my son in a private place once by an older lady while I was sat on a park bench feeding him because her grandchildren where playing on the park. He was 2 weeks old. I went home and cried for hours and I started expressing to feed him outside the house! I wish I hadn't now and I had said something back to her.

Organising your day around 'appropriate' places to feed a baby is really stressful and almost never works out as planned

Fair play to those who will literally feed anywhere and everywhere. We need more people like this to normalise feeding in public and help the prudes get over themselves.

Even if the baby needed feeding there and then, and she couldn't abandon her shopping, she could have easily turn to face the shelf for some privacy, latch the baby on, adjust her clothing and then keep walking. No need to 'whip the boob out' just because it's fulfilling its natural purpose.

Depends on the boobs. Myself and many very large busted women needed to practically strip off to give outlet babies access to our nipples.

I would also be impressed at her ability to multi task with walking down aisle and feeding baby.

Some women manage to breastfeed in a sling. I'm in awe of them, as I have never worked it out.

No need to 'whip the boob out' just because it's fulfilling its natural purpose.

And I beg to differ. There really is a need. To y’know, to feed the baby......

Hilarious that so many people are still so terrified and panic-stricken at the sight of a boob being used for its natural purpose of feeding a baby.

I think it's completely inappropriate to have your breast out in a supermarket

And the prize for the stupidest, most context-free comment on the thread goes to....actually there have been loads of others too so this might not be the thickest of them all. It deserves an honourable mention though.

'As a society we are too prudish and not used to seeing it. Else where in the world ....'

'We need people to do it more so we become like elsewhere in the world.'

I agree. What was noticeable in Africa was that women breastfeeding in public was completely normal and a non issue, which is how it should be.

But I think it also has to do with the fact breasts are seen as sexual objects here, whereas in other countries they're just a food source.

I did BF both of mine but I always wondered about those who got the whole tit out. Why?
I don’t even care where people do it but the whole tit? I don’t get it.

I was a KK cup when trying to breastfeed. Back then there were no drop cup bras for that size, so I was in a normal underworld bra. Try getting a boob that size out of something that big discretely.

I ended up exclusively expressing and using a bottle when out and about for practical reasons. Hopefully all that hassle ensured nobody else was embarrassed, eh.

*underwired

I was big of nork myself, before a break reduction, but I don’t think the “whole tit Brigdade” being noticeably large.

Breast, FFS, not break.

Oh dear. You’d hate me OP. I’ve got big boobs and not particularly pert ones at that and my preferred outfit of choice for feeding in is a vest top that I can wap a tit out over the top of. I’ve breastfed all over and you know what? The ONLY time I’ve ever had a comment about it was from an older woman telling me that I “had no decency”. 1) who gives a fuck how much “decency” anyone else may or may not have?! It’s not your “decency”, get your bloody grubby mitts of it. 2) if having decency means inflicting a crying child on the rest of the current occupiers of wherever I happen to be through neglecting to do the one thing that I know will fix it, then count me out.

Me and my giant dangly boobies signing out. Stay classy mumsnet!

I don’t even care where people do it but the whole tit? I don’t get it.

Don’t fret. You don’t have to get it. Save your outrage for something worthy.

This screams daily fail journo. They hate breastfeeding. They also hate babies, mums and all children in general.

@DidumusStench: it’s more bemusement, not outrage; sorry to disappoint.

@NoParticularPattern I think decency goes out he window when you squeeze a human out of your vagina and then spend the next few weeks (months and years) smelling slightly of poo and puke mixed with dried milk 😆

@chocolateaddicted yes quite! Once you’ve had a relative stranger wipe your bum because you’ve pooed in labour decency is not something that comes easily (spoiler alert for anyone who is yet to experience that joy: you literally cannot care less at that point. It all feels like you’re having a poo and you just don’t even realise, because pain). I’m pretty sure that at the point after delivering the baby when a midwife had her WHOLE HAND in my vagina/uterus trying to “encourage” the placenta to detach that I actually delivered not only the placenta but also my sense of humour and sense of decency. Questionable whether I had either in the first place but they’ve definitely gone completely AWOL since that episode.

Oh and thanks to whoever the poster was who says they tried to suck milk out of their own boobs. Guess which freak of nature tried (and succeeded!) to do that last night? Breastmilk tastes a lot more watery than I anticipated. Not sure why it’s taken me 6 months to try my own milk mind!

I promise I didn’t do it walking round the supermarket though