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Where have you breastfed?

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Quootiepie · 03/09/2006 21:29

Since my "breastfeeding in public" thread, when I was to scared to feed my baby in public, ive now started breastfeeding like mad! Ive notched up 2 boat trips, a few pubs complete with a local football team!, high streets, cafes, a Little Chef , my DHs brothers house, MILs with loads of people there... I would never have done it without your support, so I thought id start a thread where people can say where they've done it to encourage more to do so!

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LaDiDaDi · 03/09/2006 21:36

Fantastic Quootiepie!

I've done:
M&S
Outlet
Evans
Local retail outlet park place
Metrocentre
Parents house, in laws house, Granny's house, old people's home
At Sunday lunch at Aunt's house
Barbecues x 3
Bench on the street

Mandymoo · 03/09/2006 21:37

Various services stations (on the pavement in the car park on a particularly hit day!), at a golf range, at a wedding (in a v posh hotel!), basically i love getting my norks out!

Good for you btw!

Tatties · 03/09/2006 21:37

Great Quootiepie

I've done it on a bus, on a park bench, in a pub... also did some extreme bf in a v. slow moving traffic jam DP was driving, DS was screaming so I slid into the back and leant over the car seat!

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Quootiepie · 03/09/2006 21:39

Tatties! I nearly did that tonight...DS was screaming his head off in the car seat, but I concluded it was teething before I was leaning over him dangling away!

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northender · 03/09/2006 21:40

I did the hard shoulder of the M5 when my car broke down then in the garage office while waiting for it to be fixed (surrounded of course by lots of artistic images of norks!

misdee · 03/09/2006 21:40

shopping centres,
coffee shops,
shops,
MIL house,
hospital,
hospital canteen,
hospital canteen,
park bench (dont do this in winter unless wrapped up warm),
bus,
pub resturant,
classy restuarant,
cafe,
train
tube
beach,
Ikea(sling needed, or just sit on one of their sofas or beds)
walking round the market (sling needed)
in the car

loads of other places.

misdee · 03/09/2006 21:40

oooo yes cinema as well

xBodomx · 03/09/2006 21:41

Church, courtroom, schoolbus, blimp.

Tatties · 03/09/2006 21:43

Haha, god knows what the people in the car behind us thought...

Toothyboy · 03/09/2006 21:43

Nando's
Reception area of Weybridge Registry Office while waiting to get ds2 registered!

chatee · 03/09/2006 21:44

As some of the other places already mentioned but also in Blackpool Tower Circus(on the front row too) and in the hairdressersoh and on a train returning from london when we were upgraded to 1st class (as some slimy bd)was in the seats we had reserved(dd has cerebral palsy and can't stand unaided for 4 mins never mind 4 hours)and i had to sit facing 2 business men and eventually had to give in and feed ds....i had taken his favourite blanky to throw over him and(me)but as he wasn't used to being undercover he kept playing peepo ans smiling and dribbling milk everywhere........

gemmiegoatlegs · 03/09/2006 21:45

In a police car, when we had a car accident...
At the zoo
In a hotel
under a tree in the park
in a field full of horses(they didn't mind)
Burger King (the only place I got funny looks)
In the middle if the speeches at a wedding...come to0 think of it I may be a bit put off if somebody whipped em out at MY wedding, but hey, when your bub needs feeding...and it was a family wedding after all!

misdee · 03/09/2006 21:45

also on the M25, boobs dangling over the seat. my dad thought it was hilarious, so did the lorry driver next to us

hester · 03/09/2006 21:49

IKEA
Bottom deck of the 49 bus, in rush hour, surrounded by commuters
District Line tube
Waitrose checkout
Beach
Hospital waiting rooms
Gym
M&S
Anywhere and everywhere, really. Particularly entertaining now dd has taken to giving great dirty chuckles as my bra is unhooked.

Tommy · 03/09/2006 21:52

Well done Quootiepie!
I've done it most normal places - shops, cafes, my sister and I both did it at the same time in a Starbucks once.
Also done it at church

Socci · 03/09/2006 21:54

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kiskidee · 03/09/2006 21:57

at wedding, funeral and baptism.
shopping centres, airports, gp surgery
buses, trains, planes and cars
pubs & classy and unclassy restaurants
our staffroom
anyone's house i happen to be visiting
parks, beaches, pyo strawberry field
infact, anywhere my dd asks for milk

does it also count that i have expressed milk in a VIP box at St James' Park?

just came back from cyprus, apparently it is not the done thing to bf in public. i was told they don't normally take babies out. turns out that if we sat down in a restaurant or cafe to eat and dd wanted a feed, we would not be served until i stopped. Luckily, no one told me this till day 5 of 7.

Gingerbear · 03/09/2006 21:58

Aeroplane, in church, whilst eating fish and chips on Cleethorpes seafront, and at a swanky cafe at the harbour in Puerto Banus.

trefusis · 03/09/2006 21:59

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MoreTeaAnyone · 03/09/2006 22:00

ASDA car park, ASDA baby changing room, church, car, B&Q coffee shop/ I'm sure there must be more but can't remember so long ago now.

popsycal · 03/09/2006 22:02

at a weddign several times
at a funeral
at every relatives house
at work
in parks
in the middle of ikea
in tesco cafe
in several cafes actually
in several restaurnats
metrocentre
regstry office
erm there are many more places i am sure
la di da dee...we haev to meet up and get our norks out in metorcentrre

TooTicky · 03/09/2006 22:03

Just in front of my chest
But in varied locations, in my trusty sling.

FrannyandZooey · 03/09/2006 22:04

Too many places to mention, but my star turn was the Albert Hall

It was a toddler as well, not some discreet little newborn to be tucked under my cardi. The percussionist clocked me halfway through and I swear he missed his cue

hermykne · 03/09/2006 22:04

airplanes
side of the road ( in the car)
hospital a& e with breastfed child
shopping cnetres
cafes

thats about ti publically

kama · 03/09/2006 22:05

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