My local radio station was discussing breast feeding in a restaurant last night, and the DJ said..........................................

[waterfalls]

Yes I know its natural, but so is taking a pee and I would'nt do that in the middle of the restaurant, the mothers should do it in the bathroom

I wonder how many complaint letters he can expect in the next few days.

yes lol hmc he's so naff!

Good lord, he's described as a relationship expert

i emailed graham the following:

Hi Graham: i understand you were discussing where a breastfed baby out to eat in a restaurant on Thurs/Fri nite.

I will happily breastfeed my baby in the toilets after you eat your meal next to me while I have a shit.
Thanks.

ought not out

Very good SUBD!

He is full of patronising guff (used to tune in when collecting dh from the airport late at night.

'Soooooo Debby,you came home,found your fella in bed with your neighbours husband and threw him out okaaaaaaaaay????

Am I right in thinking that you're not a verey happy bunny right now??'

I don't see why it would hurt to take a bottle of expressed milk out while going to a restaurant, so maybe that would have been more appropriate for him to say. I'm not against breastfeeding in any way, but I can appreciate how it can make other people feel uncomfortable.

Agree that the toilet is not a hygenic place. Don't understand how some people I've seen can actually eat food in toilets, so wouldn't make a baby do it.

Why the hell should someone go to the bother of expressing when it's thee in the boobs!
What you on Blondie??

Well for a start it would mean that daddy could feed the baby while mummy gets to eat her dinner while it's hot!

Anyway that dj guy is entitled to his opinion on the subject, even if no-one else totally agrees with him.

????
You are backtracking now.
I don't think that is what you meant at all.

Secondly, I wouldn't really want to see other women breastfeeding while I was out enjoying a meal. I think it would be most offputting. I wouldn't do it either because of this opinion I have.

Ah well,you're as barking as dear old Graham then.
Each to their own.

i wont take out a bottle of expressed milk and bottle feed my baby for

1. I breastfeed because i don't want to bottlefeed. Why give myself more work just to make someone else's misguided notion of proper persist. I breastfeed because I am a lazy slattern!

2. Because breastfeeding is more 'normal' than bottlefeeding and if people can't face that truth then only by 'facing' it will they get the opportunity of finding it 'normal'.

3. I didn't tough out the hard early days of breastfeeding to give myself more work later on.

anyways, some bf women cannot express milk what should they do? give formula to please someone else?

well you might not feel comfortable blondilocks but tbh that is your own irrational prejudice without any sensible reason so I suggest that the answer to that is not that a woman expresses (which is presuming that a bf baby would take a bottle when the breas is right there - which ime is pretty unlikely) but that you get over it or don't look.
imho

What's offputting about seeing a baby being fed the food designed by Nature for it to eat, FGS?

And given that you have this hang-up - why is it more important for you to feel comfortable while you scoff your dinner than for a baby to be fed?

What a bizarre attitude, especially from a woman.

I perfected the art of eating and b/f at the same time. Secondly I've never felt the urge to ogle a womans tits be there a baby attached them or not, so it wouldn't faze me in the slightest.....

he's entitled to hear my opinion too if he's going to put his over public radio.

if you find my bf offputting at the restaurant, then I suggest you move tables?

Oh, I had a 3 course meal over 2 hours with 2 lovely glasses of wine over May half term. DD slept and breastfed in my arms for the whole two hours. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. The only problem I had was asking to have my duck cut for me as I was otherwise occupied.

If you don't want to see other women breastfeeding whilst you're out enjoying a meal don't look.

Simple.

If people have a problem with seeing women breastfeed in public then they should leave and the breastfeeding mum should feel free to carry on in public regardless.

It's their problem and we breastfeeding mums should not be expected to accommodate for people's hang-ups.

This smallmindedness makes me SOOO

Incidentally, do people know that a law has recently been passed that states if an establishment asks you to stop breastfeeding, they can be fined?

Hooray, if you ask me!

Well people who feel 'uncomfortable' around breastfeeding have the problem, not the breastfeeders. Anyway, I bet that those people have been around a lot more breastfeeders than they realise because a lot of the time onlookers can't actually tell

Not in England it hasn't, mammaduck

That probably is the case. I'm sure there are more decent ways of breastfeeding, which most people do. I wouldn't want to flash myself at everyone, so I would try and be as decent as possible!

Sometimes though you can't help but see them - for example on a bench right next to the entrance of a shop which you can't go through. I don't make a point of looking at them.

I think it's quite funny how there was a post on someone wearing a bikini to pick someone up from school, but it's ok to have your boobs out in public to feed a baby.

Sorry that should have read:

I think it's quite funny how there was a post on someone wearing a bikini to pick someone up from school, & how that didn't appear to be accepted, but it's ok to have your boobs out in public to feed a baby.

But you don't have your boobs out, that's the point. You can probably see less of them than you could in a bikini.

(and it's even odder that you;re "allwoed" to have breasts on the front of magazines and newspapers but not to expose very little of one to feed a baby)

I spose I wouldn't know. I didn't do, don't really
want to do it for my next one but OH thinks I should. (That's if there is a next one....)