Strangest places you've breastfed

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Ok, it was me on the water bus in Venice. It was me with the screaming, hungry baby who popped out a boob and fed him while the boat bopped up and down on the waves.

You would have done the same, right?

Weirdest places you've had to feed?

In Ikea, Brent Cross, in the bathroom department downstairs (they have a bf area now in the canteen upstairs but I didn't know that) my DD was a speed feeder so it was quick at least!

Under a table on an intercity train.

(Our train broke down, next train packed to the gills. No one offered us a seat )

in a fire station mess office.

Ha ha - this is great - glad I'm not the only exhibitionist:

• In a motorway traffic jam
• In the library, but dd was absolutely screaming her head off, and trying to feed enraged her more. So I got maximum attention from everyone there.
• At tube stations

Job interviews and training courses. Opportunities always seems to crop up when I am on Mat leave, latest one was when DS2 was 5 weeks old (interview) and 4months (training). I've got the job every time. I think feeding actually helped me feel less nervous about the interview as the oxytocin kicked in so i was nice and relaxed rather than a jittery bag of nerves.

On many dog walks, in a sling or just in my arms walking along various woodland tracks / fields / perched on the bank of a stream etc. Nodding cheerily to other dog owners who may or may not have realised what I was doing.

Spiffy Will remember the job interview thing as that may well be me after next Christmas - good to know it was a help not a hindrance!

In the amusement arcades on Clacton pier. DD was in a sling so I was able to keep shoving the 2ps into the cascade machines as she fed!

In a sinking dingy in the beck at Mum & Dads.

DD's sandal had caught the plug in the bottom of the boat, my bum was dragging along the bottom of the beck, and I was frantically rowing to get me and the 2 dcs to the bank when she decided it was the perfect time to whip out a boob and latch on!

My dad was waiting on the bank and was most impressed

On the cable cars at Drayton Manor or Waking up the steps at the blue John cavern.

Cross legged on the floor under a rail of curtain samples in a department store.

DS2 feeds in a sling so all over the place!

On a swing. Up a (very small) mountain. In a rowing boat. Paddling in the sea. Standing up on the bus. On the tube. On the escalator at Vaxuhall. In the frozen food aisle of Sainsburys. While climbing over a stile. And last week on holiday, walking through a forest in the pissing rain with an umbrella and very wet feet.

Houses of Parliament: both the Strangers Lobby and the viewing gallery to the Commons

Not strange as such, but I doubt many others have done it

Can I just add...

... M&S cafe.

I know, I live on the edge, me. I was watching all the other customers like a hawk, I tells ya, in case they looked like they were about to grass me up to management. Nobody bothered us in the slightest.

I was quite disappointed: I had a spiel worked out and everything. I was going to make a stand (DSis was planning on dying of mortification) out of solidarity with that MNer who got done for bfing in M&S in May. I was even going to quote relevant sections of the Equalities Act.

Denied.

Queue outside the Royal Academy and also the Ryanair boarding queue! (theme?)

IN the registry office while registering DS1

In the shade of a tyrannosaurus rex :D

While cooking.... also simultaneously entertaining toddler! [proud mum emoticon]

• On a ride at Gullivers World
• On the M6 in a traffic jam
• at a funeral

so nice to see i'm not the only one to do it in obscure places!

Love this thread!

I'm an amateur compared to you all! I've BF in some of the places mentioned (tube, MacDonalds queue, car with DS in the carseat, etc) and also in probably every museum we've been to in the last 2 years! (best thing to keep DS quiet and be able to see the exhibits).

Since I've learnt to BF with DS in the Ergo carrier, I started doing it anywhere. DS2 is on his way, and this time I'll probably be much more adventurous.

London Underground in the most unbelievably crowded sardine-can rush hour.

The Elgin Marbles room at the British Museum (very calm)

Easyjet (ended up with a 'magic' empty seat next to me on a full flight....joy!)

In a traffic jam crawling through Hampstead

In the middle of synagogue, in the middle of High Holy Day prayers

At top table at my cousin's wedding

On the dance floor at my cousins wedding

While cooking

While opening door to postman and signing for parcel (the poor man got quite used to getting an eyeful during my last Mat Leave)

In lots of restaurants whilst eating at the same time :)

Discovering I didn't have to hide in the dismal feeding cupboards rooms in John Lewis and Fenwick, or rush home to feed, was so utterly liberating, I started to get my norks out all over the place even when there was noone to feed. Wish I hadn't waited until DC3 to stop feeling so limited!

I have mobility 'issues' and have fed all three of mine whilst scooting about on my mobility scooter; in shopping centres, supermarkets etc but the best was through the bat cave thing at Chester Zoo where you go in a darkened huge room with free flying bats there are signs up about not having food out in case you get dive bombed - bats are not attracted to bm, who knew. :)

I have never been challenged about feeding anywhere, I think people are to terrified of challenging a bf mother with a visible disability.

InaPuddle- I've done that as well. Registrar smiled and said that it was like magic the way a boob will silence a screaming baby. We've seen her when registering all 3 children as well as our marriage and she's always struck me as rather stern looking- it was the only time I have ever seen her smile.

Quite an impressive list - the best I can manage is the top deck of an open topped double decker bu on the Isle of Wight.

bumped old thread!

i can add 'all over the Goodwood Hotel' to my list from last year..

In a nuclear bunker, although to be fair the MOD no longer own it and it is now a tourist attraction.