To think perhaps this wasn't the most appropriate way to bf baby in a public place?

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OK I am usually all for breast feeding have breast fed all 3 of my dcs and if they were hungry in restraunt on train etc I would cover and feed them, however this shocked me.
Was in supermarket last night with 2 dds aged 5 and 7. Dds had nipped off to pick up some juice when dd1 rushed up to me with a bright red face and ushered my to the next aisle. There was a woman standing with her shirt unbuttoned feeding a baby who was sat upright in a trolley so every one that walked by could see exactly what she was doing and also had a clear view of her other boob that was hanging out her bra . Not only that the baby must have been about 7 or 8 months and was straining to reach as she sort of crouched to it's level.
Surely this is not the best way and she could have left her trolley and went into the baby room she didn't have that much stuff in there any way.

Probably militant and hippy!!

Militant and hippy? Blimey. The horror.

That's very sweet, hunkermunker.

PMSL that would be DS.
Apparently he's been quite forceful in the past poking MIL in the boobs!

If you really want to promote bfeeding everywhere there is no point in upsetting people. I was bfeeding everywhere when my babies were 7 or 8 months-noone would have been mentioning me on threads like this.

Hunkermunker, your photo made me laugh out loud. Love it!

What if the baby wanted a breastfeed? Find a seat somewhere. Anywhere. I would never suggest she hide herself away but it's not that difficult to find somewhere to sit. I've fed in loads of places including whilst eating in a restaurant, on the beach and in the front window of Starbucks.

Whilst a mother should have the right to breastfeed without harassment, I do think there should be a little consideration for others in the same way you should show consideration when doing anything. But hey, if you're the kind of person who thinks "f*ck everyone else, I'm doing what I want", then fine. I'm not. I still do pretty much what I want, it's just tempered with consideration: I feed unobtrusively in the front window of Starbucks and in return I expect everyone else to ignore me. I'm not a militant breastfeeder and have never understood the need to be. That doesn't make my opinion wrong.

Actually, I have opened the door with both breasts exposed and a breastpump in my hand - I was utterly sleep deprived and instead of doing one side up, undid the other side.

Still didn't stop the fecking window cleaner from coming every 5 days to clean our windows and extort extra money off us. (And no, I don't think it was so he could look at my norks again - they're not the most presentable).

i've never seen a woman b/f in a very public place (ie; a supermarket)...and i've been to lot's of different ones...

i think the op's on a wind up.

I did have a long conversation with the trea surgeon with one bra-covered breast exposed. I'd remembered to refasten the cup but forgotten to pull my vest back up. [shrug] Turns out his wife breastfed so I guess he understood completely.

tree surgeon.

Most of the time you'd never know a baby was being fed though.

But why would you think it's your place to decide that another mother should go and sit down, when she wants to get on with her shopping?

Imagine if I said to you: "why do you sit in Starbucks to sit down and BF unobtrusively, you should get on with multi-tasking". It would be presumptious and unreasonable of me - it's up to you how you BF FGS, not up to me to tell you how to.

As for this nonsense about "like it or not, this is how our culture sees breast, as private" then let's change that. It is inconvenient to mothers and very unfair to tiny babies, to keep re-inforcing the absurd attitudes to breastfeeding that are so prevalent in our culture.

I have actually be having a sneaking suspicion of the same thing Daftpunk

Hoorah for the breastfeeding woman. Little Ff is now down to two a day, but 8 months ago when she was gaining weight very slowly and feeding 10 times a day, feeding in public was the only way I could leave the house.
Why mention that you would 'cover and feed'? I think more of us need to be loud and proud about it. YABU.

op swears she's not trolling, i asked.

have you seen that photo of the woman bfing while meeting a south americam pres. can't remember exactly.

I've bf in Asda when DS2 was tiny and DS1 wasn't much bigger.

The faff of going to the vile feeding room and trying placate DS1 wasn't worth it.

I didn't wop 'em out but he was in a sling so it was easy.

Surely there are more tits out in the newspaper ailse (mind Asda has more than its fair share of the daily sport!)

i am liking bf woman in the juice aisle
and would think 'you go girl' if i saw her actually.... for having the balls to do it

LOL How SHOCKING, nobody ever sees breasts in any other way! Women in other countries don't wear tops full stop regardless of bf. Its just a shame that the so called civilised world is not civilised about the most natural instinct in the world and are conditioned from a young age to view breast primarily as sex toys rather than a source of nurishment for babies

pisces, I carry a healthy snack with me wherever I go, in my bra.

FWIW perhaps her baby feeds very slowly and she didn't have time to stop to feed
Oh and second,third, fourth etc all people who said 'yuk' to the vile toilet/feeding combos found in loads of shops and supermarkets- I wouldn't.

However, I do at the need to bf at that point with an 8mth old, mine would have wanted fruit/humzinger/healthy snack with juice at that age or would have been pacified with something edible until I could get shopped.

Sorry i have been away for a bit. To answer your questions the other boob wasn't completely out the bra was kind of pulled down so half exposed other nip and yes aitch she was foreign. I am sorry i started this now i guess i was only trying to see if i was a prude and seems like i am . Also sorry but yes it was asda

i wouldn't have fed like that - sounds really uncomfy and while i don't mind getting my boobs out if the baby i am feeding so requires, i don't do so gratutitously like 'ooooo yeeeah, here they are!!! o - whats that? you're not hungry? o well lets leave them hanging out here anyway'

BUT in saying that, i don't think there is one thing wrong with this woman doing it, if she wants to feed her baby like that, that is cool, if total prat teenagers want to leer and stare, then they are morons, it is not she who needs to alter her behvaiour but them. And also, I know its hard with boys, I am very liberal with mine, but he still feels a bit iffy when i go topless on the beach etc, but, boobs are just a bit of body after all, and it is a bit of a shame your ds felt he had to run away and blush at the sight of them.

yabu. sorry, that is waht i think!

Well I for one am very happy to live on a society where we don't walk around with our tits out. I don't think bf is a lisence to ignore social norms and accepted standards of dress either. I bf in public, walking around, on public transport, all over and didn't expose myself to the world.
Many tribes who don't see breasts as private do have other parts of their bodies they see as private(which we don't necessarily) and they are expected to conform to the standards of dress accordingly. (Having flashbacks to Anthropology at University here).