Bare breasts in public

[finefatmama]

Do you feel it is acceptable to bare your whole breast while breastfeeding in public.

I remember getting on a bus in summer and somehow was shocked to see that a lady on the bus had slipped off her spaghetti strap and lowered top to breastfeed her baby. I was surprised that i felt disgusted by it. surely she is feeding the baby. Couldnt she have lifted up the top instead? the teenage boys behind me were more into the huge breasts and it started to look like soft porn.

disgusted?
take a chill pill mama

Maybe she didn't want her post-partum tummy on display. If she's anything like me that is.

Find it a bit much comparing b/feeding to soft porn, though. Sorry

lordy

you'll be needing a flakjacket ffm.

I normally prefer to flop them both out as they both gush forth with milk so I'd end up with the usual unsightly patches on my clothes, or a soggy horrible breast pad in my bra.
Not on a bus mind...but that's just me. Doens't bother me if others want to...

When page 3, the lad mags and all the porn in places like newsagent (ffs) have been banned, THEN and only then, might I have a serious discussion on how offensive or inoffensive bare breasts in public are.

Do you go in to newsagents etc and tell them that you find these publications offensive? No? Oh, funny that.... Let's all collude with the idea that our breasts are for men but my god, not for our children.

Yes, I also prefer to lob the whole breast out wherever possible. Just in case someone at the back of the bus may have missed the chance to be offended, I sometimes remove my top and also my bra just so they can get a really good look.

And then you put sparkly tassles on them while singing "boop boop ti boop" a la marilyn monroe.

Quite, beansprout.

I'm with podkin - in the early days whenever poss I would have got them both out (completely!) one to feed ds with, and the other to prop a cloth underneath to catch the leak. It was doing this that eventually stopped me having blockage problems which kept leading to mastitis.

On a bus... probably not, but surely once baby was latched on, you wouldn't see any more than you would with a low cut top?

Tried to search for finefatmama and either I'm doing it wrong or she hasn't posted before.

Pooka

sorry ladies .. am pro-breast but there are social requirements to bf in public and I don't think one should wap out whole breast when discretely lifting top would hide buddah belly.

I wouldn't be disgusted but would be embarrassed for teens

Anyone else as completely incompetent as me...? If I tried to feed in a strappy top from underneath, the top would be round my neck, and both norks out - it would have popped up over the other one. Much better system to go from the top.

i bet the teens didnt mind 'look over there alfred, that woman has her boob out, no no dont stare, just do it discreetly'

I think some clothes lend themselves better than others to discrete b/f. Anything a bit baggy that can be lifted up tends to avoid the gawping stares of over hormonal teenage boys I find.

Sometimes I just wanted to feel like me again... not baggy breastfeeding mum.

Has posted before, Bobbybob. Apparently a new poster yesterday who won't have any idea how a thread criticising public bf-ing is going to kick off

Having said that, I don't think it's necessary to bare your entire breast when feeding but there's far more "soft porn" as you call it around and she was, simply, feeding her baby and was comfortable about it.

What about if you're wearing a fitted button fronted shirt for example. Hoicking from the bottom doesn't really work. Unbuttoning from the top shows quite as much boob. Must admit that I do tend to live in strappy vests (thermal) under cardys or shirts because have extra coverage. But it is winter after all!

I get out quite a bit (honest!) and usually notice fellow breastfeeders, but I never see these sights of entire breasts that seem to fill other people's lives.
I find it all a bit odd tbh. I only ever see women with babies shoved up their t-shirts, quietly getting on with their lives.
Saw a woman feeding a newborn in the Ikea cafe the other day (while reading the paper, having a coffee and eating cake - way to go!. I thought it was lovely to see a dear, tiny little head bobbing up and down in that particular way newborns have.

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I'm appalled.

Twiglett spelt discreet wrong.

Aloha - agree re dear little head bobbing up and down feeding - HOW sweet!

FFM, soft porn? Really? Personally, I'm impressed (and ) that someone with such huge norks could wear spaghetti straps - I know I can't (unless I want to lift my skirt hem to feed baby ).

i wouldnt be shocked, but would think that a discreet scarf, shawl, even a hanky over the breast might be more modest.
but, and i would probly fall into this category, maybe she doesnt get ogled much, so anything to have someone stare?
my being ogled at days are long long over.

I think that's their problem (the teenage boys). I say good on her. If it';s acceptable for page three girls to simper in national newspapers for all to see, I'm damn sure it's acceptable to feed babies with not an ounce of shame wherever one is.