Where do you think it is inappropriate to BF

[bumperlicious]

Reading lots of posts about people who have bf everywhere with admiration. I am happy to bf in public, and have even done it on a park bench. When I am out and about I do sometimes fret about finding somewhere "appropriate" to bf, i.e. a cafe or something, but I am just wondering if there are places where you would consider it to be inappropriate to bf? e.g. in a shop, on a train?

Nowhere, Nowhere, Nowhere!!!
If your baby needs feeding, give it the boob! If it was a bottle you'd happily shove it in, except of course the toilets, as everyone has said, I wouldn't eat in the toilets, so why should my baby?

oh yes posh hotel toilets are different
but then I'd be happy to eat in there as well!
If no-one thinks feeding in normal public toilets is OK, why is it so accepted? i think something needs to be done!
I was in a service station once and fed in the cafe rather than the feeding room (which i don't think was a toilet) as i didn't want to be shut away - wanted to sit in cafe with my friend, talk, have a drink and people watch while i did it. Rightly or wrongly I felt that I was making a point and being awkward.

Nowhere is inappropriate IMO ...
but I wouldn't want to feed a baby in a toilet ...
LOL at bungee jumping Marslady

The only other place I think is not a good idea, due to safety ... is on the hard shoulder of a motorway. I know someone who stopped her car on the M1 and fed her baby on the back seat. I think that is really really unsafe ... dangerous. If your baby is screaming on the motorway, come off at the first exit, find a quieter road and feed him/her there ...

a friend of mine breastfed her one year old bridesmaid while getting married, in a white dress at the altar

I'm sure some people would find that inappropiate, but I thought 'good on her'

presumably the bridesmaid was her daughter belgo??? he he he ... if not that is just wierd ...

oh yes the bridesmaid was her dd, also being christened that day

I would say I heartily believe that NOWHERE is innapropriate.

BUT I haven't ever done it in the loo as public loos are are a bit smelly and see no reason to be in one long enough to HAVE to do it there.

what about bfing at a funeral? A friend of mine was offended by this, which I find a shame.

I have never fed my babies in a feeding room
It's boring, sometimes a little unclean and I just dont see the need.
I have sat on the floor in tesco whilst my other children have been looking at clothes, a park bench next to a couple of teenage girls who were giggling about it(bless them), on the bottom step of a Dorothy perkins and even whilst walking around asda shopping with my friend pushing my trolley.

I have done it on the hard shoulder too BUT the traffic was standing and it was 6 miles to the next services.

I was hugley pregnant the last time I went to a funeral but I wouldn't have thpught twice about feeding there too and I know that my family wouldn't have been offended.

I've bf once in a feeding room in M&S. The toliets were in the smae room. A women came in to use the toilet, saw me feeding, apoligised and walked out again!

It's strange, I've fed in plenty of public places in Belgium, but in England, I've felt a lot more uncomfortable. Maybe that's just me.

TR - I was surprised that my friend was so offended by the bfing at the funeral. She also expected me to find it inappropiate.

again though. we'd never have this conversation about bottle feeding. where is it inappropriate to bottle feed? you wouldn't think twice about doing it in church or in a shop or anywhere. Why should we get uptight about where we breastfeed? actually a better question would be: Why should OTHER PEOPLE get uptight about where we breastfeed??

good point purple. I remember feeling uncomfortable about bfing sat next to my friend's dad. So I went into another room.

I've never quite been able to work out why English people feed so uncomfortable about Bfing.

Maybe it hails back to Carry On films/benny Hill etc and a perception that breasts are "naughty"? Other countries surely appreciate breasts though and have no probs with feeding in public?

I have done it most places (train, beach, tube station, cafe, work, car park, parties) but the only place time I decided to use a bottle was at a funeral.

that's interesting msappropriate. What would you have done if your baby had never had a bottle and refused to take one at the funeral?

toilets. Have never done that. Bleuuuuurgh

I would have probably not gone or taken him outside; if he started crying.

So if I do it in a shop do you think that is ok?

Kathy, I know what you mean about feeding in public when there is a feeding room, I've done that and felt a bit bad, like I was making a point, even though I wasn't really.

yeah i think a shop's fine
I should have fed in the feeding room looking back, DS kept hitting his legs on my chair and was distracted showing off to some women on the next table who were cooing over him He didn't have very much and I ended up having to feed him in the car!

I should appreciate DD while she is still young enough not to play up or get distracted! (she's 8 weeks)