Woman stopped from breastfeeding her child in a (men’s) clothes shop!!

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what do you reckon to this? breastfeeding story

That's like saying you don't approve of cuddling and judging others for doing it.

Over here I've bf all over the place - trains, dr's waiting rooms, restaurants, motorway service stations, botanic gardens - and have never had any comments and only once half an eyelid batted at me.
We're coming to England next month though and will be out and about a lot. Will I be in for a ?

Well - perhaps we should sign the petition at petitionthem.com (the articler mentions them at the bottom)?

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Hey hmc - where have you been? Was asking on a 'missing mumsnetters' thread where you were!

sorry, dashing off again now as toddler approaching...

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as usual - the point was missed

when out shopping with ds1, id give him a bottle/propped up in his pram and continue shopping. at most id sit down somewhere and hold bottle. particularly when he was younger.

when breastfeeding, id park my backside anywhere it would fit, and feed. did it on the floor in ravel. no one batted an eye. did it on bench in bluewater. in middle, by stairs. perfectly normal and natural. why do people get so het up about this sort of thing?

But what does it matter that they (absurdly and irrationally) don't want to see it? I see a million things every day that I'd rather not but I tend not to demand the purpetrators move out of sight.

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no of course not

I think its quite beautiful myself but I can see why others might not - I'm just surprised that some think everyone should think its beautiful

when you think of all the age groups and backgrounds people come from there are going to some who are - I don't know - strait-laced and such like and they'd feel uncomfortable seeing it - I don't think that's hard to understand.

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what i find offensive is the amoount of breast tissue i have to see oin the summer. none of it belonging to feeding moms

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I don't think everyone should think it's beautiful, JT, bloody hell, far from it! Nothing beautiful about your baby being nosey and you spraying milk everywhere as he unlatches!

BUT babies need to feed, you don't need to pick your nose (unless perhaps a particularly scratchy bogey ). And it always seems to be breastfeeding that people feel they can comment on in public too. I have never heard of a bottlefeeder being moved on for causing offence. Or a nosepicker, for that matter

ever wished you hadn't used a certain analogy? - I could think of others

Love Welshmum's story about the chairman.

JT, no-one HAS to look at someone b/feeding - no more than you have to look at any of the things you've mentioned. If people are offended, they can look somewhere else.

Plus, when a baby needs feeding it needs feeding. Adults who think babies should wait while mother finds somewhere 'suitable' (such as a loo, FGS) are being very selfish, putting their own prejudices ahead of a helpless baby's hunger.

And the changing room idea doesn't appeal to me - the queues are long enough as it is!

mad to suggest changing room. I'd be very pissed off if I couldn't try something on because the shop had forced someone to breastfeeding in there.