I went for a meal with a good friend of mine tonight. She brought along a friend of hers who I have met before but don't know very well. She knows I have a young dd but from the way the conversation went is obviously not aware that I breastfed for 10 months. We were having a nice evening when all of a sudden she started telling a story about how she was in a cafe when a woman breastfed her child and how it was disgusting and how could anyone be expected to eat their lunch with that going on etc etc. I was really taken aback and when I tried to make a comment that no one would expect her to eat her lunch in the toilet she totally took me up to wrong way and agreed that the cafe had a lovely bathroom and the woman should have gone in there to feed the baby.
If experienced pro-breastfeeders like me can't even stand up for breastfeeding what chance doea it have of becoming accepted as the wonderful, natural thing that it is?
This girl was horrified by seeing a woman breastfeeding and while I know that is her opinion I wish I had been able to at least express my point of view.