Idle curiosity: how would you react if someone bought you a hooter hider?

[StealthPolarBear]

a) Your well-meaning but clueless best friend
b) Your interfering MIL/insert interfering person here if like me you have a mostly lovely MIL
c) Your DH/DP
?

That sombrero needs a makeover to make it more subtle.

The brim - white fabric with blue veins
The crown - giant pink nipple.

Either that or paint a big-ass target on it so people really know where to look.

Wish they'd been around when my Grandad was still alive....he used to get my g'ma then his wife to make button holes in napkins - those would have saved a whole lot of sewing.
I think I would make a point of wearing them aat restaurants and then slurping soup

PMSL Zachary!! How true!! A real Vagina Monologues of a hat.

wouldn't wearing a tent on your chest be a little bit more attention drawing than a baby's head?

BUT you''d be doing it discretely

OH
MY
GOD

SPB - I was given not one but TWO of the fucking things!!

and FYI they are called Bebe au Lait now

they are not plastic coated. just plain ol' fabril. but they have a loopy bit at the top so you can look down lovingly at your LO and still drink your latte.

(BTW - I had DD 3 weeks ago. fed her in loads of places. still haven't taken the hooter hider out of the package!)

and AND it was my MOTHER (my BF guru) who bought the effing thing! (well, one of them, other was a) and she knows that i fed DS anywhere and everywhere.

pmd - you need to get creative and think of a better use for them!

i could turn it backwards and use it as a supermom cape?

OMG! I was given one of these things by a well meaning friend...it now languishes at the bottom of a chest of drawers, unused and unloved. Next place, Ebay.

I don't mind getting my norks out in front of people who are comfortable with me BF'ing in front of them (and I always give a 5min warning so that those who are too embarrassed can evacuate the room), but I haven't braved Starbucks yet, and no amount of hideous pink/orange paisley material is gonna help me!

Hooter hider - hysterical!

at 35 dollars a pop I think I'd just drag an old curtain round with me if I were that bothered. Which I wasn't!

I love the sombrero hat.
I think we should all suggest slogans to them for the top.

Mine is
WHAT! I'm having my lunch!

I think in years to come we'll laugh at hooter hiders in the same way we laugh at the Victorians, who covered up table legs for the sake of decency, while having the highest levels of child sexual abuse and prostitution imaginable........

Seriously - it's so bizarre that the society which invented topless car washes is also responsible for nursing covers....

hana I can't take credit, someone linked to their nursing range above and I was just having a nosy round the site

I love that site!! Especially that the Mom'n'daughter matching outfit is described as a party dress... oh to be invited to such parties

Forget florals. I would buy it if there was a specially printed fabric saying "F* off, I'm breastfeeding, and if you don't like it, then leave". However I would use it as a flag attached to the buggy.

I did like the idea of a Supermum cape though.

Stickyfingers, they are probably like the cheese and coffee parties (as opposed to cheese and wine parties) the local Baptist tennis club used to run ...

I want a supermum honking hooter cape so badly. I could fly off into the sunset, tandemming children attached firmly to each nork, ready to save the world [daydreams]

I have my camcorder ready for when you go over my house!

ommmwardandupward

You need to read this:

cowgoddess

a) I would probably use it as material for a sewing project - baby clothes or patchwork maybe. Something that they might see and know that I put it to good use even if I didn't need/want it.
b)If I really hated the person who bought it for me I'd probably cut it up for family cloth usage
c)He wouldn't - he's as much of a a lactivist as me!

I would keep it with me to throw at people who didn't like me breastfeeding - "here cover your eyes, wouldn't want you seeing my h(.)(.)ters!"

How low do those Bebe au lait things go, cause if they reach the thighs or knees you could always use it to cover up your partner going down on you in public. Obviously when someone else is looking after the baby.

If like me, you co-sleep, there are limited opportunities for these things.

I am sorry to lower the tone.

LOL @ Belle.

Or, of course, your partner could wear it while you reciprocated...again, obviously, when someone else is looking after the baby.

I have had the most unbelievably crappy day, following on from an even more crappy weekend, but this thread has absolutely made my afternoon. Thank you all! I would have to give the Hooter Hider to my (male) best friend, who's very pro-breastfeeding in principal but involuntarily goes scarlet every time I do it in his presence and has to have his buttocks surgically unclenched afterwards. He's more embarrassed by the fact that he's embarrassed than anything else and I've only put him through the ordeal about three times in over two years, but he could use one of these to cover his eyes and he'd be a much happier bunny.

I think I need one of those lovely flannel nursing nightgowns though....! (HOW does one stumble upon a site like that?!)