to think it's okay to breastfeed in front of my colleagues...

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...or is my colleague correct in saying that it's completely inappropriate?

Never though of it being inappropriate until someone mentioned it to me today...

Thoughts?

Not everyone has work and home lives that fall into neat boxes. I had a day of meetings that coincided with DD's 6 week growth spurt. (My concentration levels were admittedly a little low.)
Hope everything goes well OP

Most people would just go in another room which wasn't full of other people

No user most people wouldn't in 2018.

I don't get a kick out of making people feel uncomfortable but if they are uncomfortable because I am feeding my child then i will have a little giggle or an eye roll because they are the dinosaur and they are in the wrong and it's 2018 and I will.not allow them to make me feel uncomfortable. You can't get away from the fact that your discomfort is due to the fact that you are sexualising breasts when their purpose is to feed a baby. You may think you are not but why else is it wrong for people to see them?

Depends on where you work

Where I was working when I had ds no too noisy and an office full of misogynistic men

Where I work now absolutely no way but children not allowed in the building so would never have been an issue

would rather they saw me in my work role and respected me for my professionalism than saw me breastfeeding

Why would seeing you bf interfere with them respecting your professionalism?

I have bf in work when I went in to show off the baby/catch up with HR. Do people not do that anymore?

Not a big deal at all. I did it in a meeting room while catching up with a few close colleagues. It was a very modern/female friendly environment though.

I have breastfed my baby in work meetings, both over Skype and in person because baby was very young, I just loved to a new place and was setting up work opportunities and had nobody else to look after her. No issues. I also took her on tour (I'm a musician) at three months and breastfed her in meetings, performance breaks, backnof the theatre etc. No probs there either! But I work in a very liberal environment

I used to bf in a sling and people couldn't tell so much so on a visit to work my boss plucked the sling away to look at my baby to find me by. He had grandkids so wasn't overly embarrassed- I was slightly but got on with it. When a baby needs feeding it needs feeding!

Oh and I went to Christmas parties when babies were young bf both. I don't recall any colleagues having an issue, if any did they didn't say anything!

I went for lunch with 5 colleagues when I had a newborn so they could meet her. She needed feeding, I fed her, no big deal at all. Of course it's ok to feed your baby in front of colleagues, or anyone else!

Okay...im tired and I read this as "AIBU to breastfeed my colleagues" and I was ridiculously confused

I've taken babies to Xmas dos on mat leave and fed them, and recent Christmas dos have had other colleagues turn up with babies and I'm pretty sure the babies were breastfed.

If it's OK to have the baby there, it's appropriate to breastfeed. If my colleagues were sleazy and might have been wierd round my bfing, I wouldn't have bothered going to the Xmas do!