Breastfeeding in retaurants puts other people off their meals

[babyonboard]

wtf!?

A woman on bbc news now, with pretty strange views

'women should breastfeed before they leave the house, it's not fair on others to sdo it in public'

I was really worried about it but have found it pretty easy to find places to feed and no-one has said a word. Do try to cover up a bit with a blanket/muslin but sometimes it just falls off! Was at soft play on sunday and there were loads of mums feeding - this couple gave me a couple of odd looks - when their dinner came - but they were a bit chav like and just thought if its okay for you to stuff your faces with chips, its okay for my month old baby to stuff his face too!

I find that a screaming baby and two free range ds usually silence most folk. I am planning to train ds's to say 'he's having his dinner, then he's going to have pudding'

I'm trying to train my 3 yr old DD to say "I ain't bovvered!"

im offended by seeing knickers under mini skirts or gstrings at the top of too tight jeans but wouldnt complain to them!

I breastfed my wee one in public all of the time, lucky to have wee boobs so wasn't exposed. I remember sitting next to a new mum in a fancy restaurant one lunchtime out with friends, and she suddenly lifted her top, peeled down her nursing bra to reveal a massive boob, BEFORE picking up her baby and sticking him on! Had never seen that before, it made me laugh but why the hell did she have to show it off so much? I don't care if people are offended by public feeding though, that's their problem.

god thats me - novice thing

Me too - huge knockers and takes me ages of waggling it about to get a decent latch!

The (female)presenter on BBC Breakfast responded to the vile anti-bf woman by saying that surely if all restaurants & cafes had feeding rooms, women could breastfeed in there, and the problem would be solved. Does anyone else agree that this is missing the point? Women shouldn't have to shut themselves away to feed their babies if they don't want to, and anyway, its not always possible. Has she tried entertaining a toddler in a tiny feeding room whilst feeding a baby? I guess not...

Yes indeed, missing point utterly.

fgs theyre feeding their babies, not changing their knickers!

I fed in public for the first time in a cafe yesterday. I was so nervous, but people went out of their way to be nice to me (making a fuss of the baby etc) and now I feel a lot more confident that I could cope with the odd comment / look.

Oooh have just read maxbear's post and realised my first public bf was in church at a wedding when he was 10 days old! Kept him quiet through the bit where they ask if anyone knows why this couple shouldn't marry!

Finally got to the end of this thread.
Yes, feeding rooms would be nice - as an option, but not expected to be used!
Plus, I'm one of the over-exposed type, boob everywhere, trying desperately to get him to latch on

I didn't see the news today, but on a similar vein, I was reading a magazine in the Doc's the ohter week - something like Take a Break or That's Life. In it was a section for people who wanted to get something off their chest. One woman, in her early 30's wrote in something along the lines
I was on a train recently when a young woman, who was sitting with her husband and an older couple, started breast feeding her baby, in front of everyone on the train, including the older man sitting with them. i can't believe she fed her baby in front of her father. It wasn't discreet and was very noisy.

She then went on to say that women should go off somewhere and do it away from teh general public. I always meant to buy the magazine for the next few weeks just to see if any one wrote in and commented on her letter.

not at a table but last saturday i bf dd (2yo) sitting 8 inches off the ground on the skirting thing around the loading bay at Ikea. dd was on the verge of kicking off and it calmed her down nicely.

loads of people were loading their cars and i only one middle aged woman clocked on to what i was doing and gave me the biggest smile of approval.

I once got tutted at by a lady on the next table when b/f my 3 week old baby, who then asked the waiter very loudly if she could move tables and just raised her eyebrows in my direction. I was so mortified at the time, but I think if it happened now I'd actually have said something to her - or left my son to scream and said "there...is that better?"

I did look everywhere to find something that would allow other Mums to feed discretely, and we managed to source this Breastfeeding wrap . It's basically a soft cotton jersey poncho, with a wide neck that allows you to see your baby, but you can feed your baby underneath without exposing boobs or worse still rolls of tummy! It's also really good if you've got a baby that gets easily distracted and tends to pull away to have a look around.