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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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Gingerbear · 03/09/2006 22:07

Top tip for eating fish and chips whilst b/f - do NOT order mushy peas as well - they were a bugger to wash out of DD's hair.

moondog · 03/09/2006 22:18

Oh that is brilliant Quootiepie!
It's a piece of piss isn't it?

I have contributed lots to threads like this,but coolest place was probably base of Mt. Ararat!

StinkyPete · 03/09/2006 22:24

this w/end, i have mostly bf...
in dd's room (bit routine)
watching tv on sofa (always a favourite)
at frankie & benny's (bit squashed as bench too close to unmoveable table)
in the car (can do this quite comfortably - was raining outside)

littleducks · 03/09/2006 22:27

most places, cafes, restaurants, shops etc. very discreetly though my midwife wanted to take piccys of me to show mums to be that it can be done without showing anything for antenatal classes!!!!

only place i had trouble was Harry Ramsedans(?) fish and chips in Bournemouth, so i took my lunch including mushy peas to eat on beach, teenage girl comments loudly "i could hear that baby cryig with my headphones in!" well go figure that i can hear your snide comments if you can hear what your saying with your headphones in .... and she only cried for the three min it took to unstrap her from buggy.

but hey they didnt care in the aquarium cafe and made yummy smoothies.

long time no see quootiepie, you ok???

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Quootiepie · 03/09/2006 22:31

yep, im fine. Been in Slough alot past 2 weeks look out for me Bfing round town next!

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terramum · 03/09/2006 23:17

bf DS (25 months) today at west midlands safari park, whilst watching the sealion show. Im an "anywhere he wants a feed" kind of person. After spending the first month expressing in toilets when out & about as he wouldnt feed from me, and then having to use shields for 2-3 months after (which are SO impossible to use discreetly ) feeding in public doesnt bother me at all now.

NappiesGalore · 03/09/2006 23:21

i doubt theres anyone in the known universe who hasnt caught an eyeful of my lactating mammaries

sometimes im a bit shy..not often, but sometimes. i do it anyway, though. the child's hungry FGS, what else am i supposed to do?

Thomcat · 03/09/2006 23:28

Off the toip of my head......

The most memorable as it were was london Zoo, walking round looking at animals and breastfeedign at the same time. Got some double takes while we were all waiting to see the big silver back.

Oh and in front of the priest was a little odd for me I have to say, but he wasn't leaving and i wasn't waiting so...

In a traffic jam. Wasn't moving so I just bought her into the front with me (I wasn't driving btw!)

On a country lane sat on grass verge next to pig farm!

Changing room in Warehouse. Wan't trying anything on, just asked girl if I could feed DD in there.

the tube.

cinema

mates dinner party at the table

dinner table next to FIL

the park

anywhere and everywhee basically. In the early days, if you don't get them out whenever they need a feed and you're shy about it then you don't go out.
Day 2 of DD2 life we took Dd1 to the zoo, a freezing day, 21st or 22 Dec 2006 and I wasn't going to keep running off to find a placve to feed her so did it while walking round. Best way, if you're gonna b.feed you gotta just get on with it really.

robinpud · 03/09/2006 23:31

Loads but most memorable were at an auction house whilst inadvertently bidding against dh for the filing cabinet we wanted.
At a posh wedding in the church!
In a traffic jam
Numerous lay byes
On the beach
Center parcs pool

PandaG · 03/09/2006 23:34

pubs - non smoking obv, cafes, sitting on a bench in a shopping centre, church, etc.....

Was quite impressed when I answered the door to the postman bfing DD in the rugby ball hold. Wishing I was still bfing TBH, boobs still tingle when I hear a newborn's cry.

chubbleigh · 04/09/2006 00:27

My best one is on the London Eye, tourists took pictures of me! Also in the fast lane of the M1, no one took their seatbelts off, it was like a game of twister but it did the trick. Covent Garden Piazza, one guy clocked me and walk straight into a lamp post.

eidsvold · 04/09/2006 01:15

anytime we went out to dinner/lunch etc

at Australia Zoo

On the beach

Friends/mothers house

In dh's cardiologists office ( well she needed a feed!)

At dd1's various outpatient appts

At dd1's sn playgroup

Waiting for dd1 to come out of kindy

train

in the car in various carparks

serenity · 04/09/2006 01:34

kiskidee - weird, who told you that about bfing in Cyprus? We went when DD was 5 mths (family wedding, DH is Cypriot) and I fed her everywhere, without a problem, comment or odd look. Actually that's a fib, never bfed in front of SILs Dh, 'cos he's an arse DD was a bit of a speed feeder though, so maybe no one noticed us? Accept my apologies on behalf of any old fashioned arsey cypriots

Back to the OP - I was more adventurous with DS1 because I didn't have any other children to keep in check at the same time. Done pretty much what other people have done though, car parks, restaurants. waiting rooms, bench in the grounds of Hever Castle, churches. I'll admit to being very lucky with my DCs feeding habits. All of them would gulp a feed down in 5/10 minutes. I had two friends whose babies would take 45 minutes to an hour every time, I don't know if I would have been as comfortable feeding whenever and whereever if I was going to be there that long (and I can understand why they ended up FFing after a few months too)

Californifrau · 04/09/2006 04:11

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amijee · 04/09/2006 08:07

When ds was one week old I answered the doorbell whilst feeding him thinking it was my midwife. It was actually an old guy delivering a bunch of flowers from work! He didn't know where to look but was sweet enough to follow me into the kitchen ( babe on boob) with the huge bunch!

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Quootiepie · 04/09/2006 09:41

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Snewt · 04/09/2006 10:14

I've answered the door to a Parcelforce driver with ds attached to boob and cack-handedly signed for a delivery. Also walked into Registrars office with ds clamped to boob and completed entire birth registration process! Apart from that the usual: train, numerous car parks, Starbucks with 4 other mums!, doctors waiting room.

LaDiDaDi · 04/09/2006 10:23

Popsycal, I'm going to metrocentre tomorrow to meet another mu, there will almost certainly be a breastfeeding duet then .

So long as she doesn't make me go in the grim mothercare feeding room..

chipmonkey · 04/09/2006 10:26

By the pool in France this summer. Mostly got no comments but did have 3 youngish Dutch guys discussing it while staring/glancing in my direction. Other than that the only other thing anyone said was by a French speaking Mum to her own toddler who came over to look
"Le bebe mange. Laisse-il mange!"

LaDiDaDi · 04/09/2006 10:30

This thread has made me think of other places I've done too;the registrars office to register the birth and answering the door to the guy delivering dd's passport.

The registrars office was the first time we took dd out after she had been in scbu, so the first time I had fed her anywhere other than hospital or home. I remember afterwards dp saying "Do you think you should have asked her (the registrar) before feeding dd?" to which I replied "I didn't hear dd asking if she could be hungry." Dp looked sheepish and the idea of asking if I could feed my hungry baby was banished forever .

DollyP · 04/09/2006 13:02

Loads of places for me too, but the best one is probably the Sistine Chapel in Rome . I don't think anyone even noticed (after all there are much more beautiful things to look at in there ).

USAUKMum · 04/09/2006 13:31

Me and my two did "it" everywhere...... the places we got most notice was:

  • pub in Ireland (since found out that very few Irish bf -- so no wonder they stared)
  • Colchester zoo : ds was 10 days old fed every 1 1/2 hrs, kept getting grannies saying "oh look she's feeding", when they started patting his head I had to draw the line
  • A zoo in France -- but turned out I was sitting on a bench they wanted to paint and we couldn't understand each other.
lazycow · 04/09/2006 14:02

Have to admit - I was a bit envious of my bottle feeding friend when we stopped on a river walk to feed out 2 month old babies. We sat on a bench and it was bloody freezing (I mean REALLY cold) and my friend got out her bottle while I gathered the courage to lift my top so ds could feed.

Have to admit I didn't happily feed in public very often though I did do it anyway. I did it almost anywhere but almost always felt amazingly uncomfortable and embarassed. It didn't stop me though.

As for walking around feeding I tried that a few times in a sling but it was a farce so I always sat down to breastfeed (suits my fundamentally lazy nature anyway)

JennyLee · 04/09/2006 14:33

everywhere... but got an old lady behind me swearing at me when i had to do it on a bus once (discreetly)but had too as he was screaming also at the same time a man stared right at me. cant remember if i did it in a restaurant i dont think that came up, never got hassle apart from that

janenevie · 04/09/2006 14:47

Hi
I really struggled to bf in public at first but once I'd done it t was fine have bf in public quite a bit now including various coffee shops, park, and the other day at the bullring! onlt had one person comment and it was positive