Who thinks breast feeding in public is disgusting?

[MrsDoolittle]

And another thing while I am at it (thinking that is). Did anyone listen to Jeremy Vine discussing breast feeding last week? I was absolutely flabbergasted at the number of people that phoned in and said bf in public is disgusting. I think discussion was in response to talk of the Scottish Parliament banning restaurantuers from asking bfing mums to leave - please correct me if I am wrong.
This is not a breast feeding versus bottle feeding thread but I can't believe any man would feel like this in this day and age, let alone a woman!

Oh dear, and there was me thinking this was a civilised udders thread

GG, ignore ignore ignore

Was reading a forum translated through babelfish the other day - breastfeeding was 'udderfeeding' - love it!

Also when people say they are/ were discreet, I get a bit fed up with the implication that that's the correct thing to be - why is being discreet a "good" thing?

I wasn't particularly discreet, not because I was frightfully militant or anything, but because I was bloody incompetent. I couldn't do the elegant pashmina draped thing, I tried but nearly garotted the bloody baby. It was a choice between discretion or feeding. So feeding won. I would have LOVED to have been one of those elegant discreet women who don't frighten the horses by having sudden fountains of breastmilk going all over the place, but hey, my nipples didn't have an off switch, and my DS didn't know he was supposed to be discreet! So indiscretion was the name of the game and I don't see any need to be apologetic about it (in case anyone thought I was being )

Caligula, DS has from a very very young age (two months old, before even?) played with the edge of my top as I nurse him - he pushes it up my boob and is not a willing player in the 'discreet feeding game'

Also, can those who use the phrase 'get them/whack them out' to describe breastfeeding try using 'nurse'? It's much less hackles-causing

moondog, hi whats with the 'wow'....what you so shocked at?

udderfeeding!!! LOL!!!

Gobbledigook....why hellOOOOOOOO!!!

(Do you have a secret alarm on your mobile that goes off when b/feeding is mentioned on MN,like my cousin has, for when Everton scores??

I would,but then again don't have a mobile phone, being the radical hippy that I am.
Actually, I have a reciprocal arrangement with Hunker, whereby we send each other smoke signals when the dreaded topic comes up...

i don't see how bfing can be that indiscreet - i mean the baby's head/body is pretty much covering the boob anyway - ok you might get a glimpse more at beginning end of feed but I'ld have thought faffing round with pashminas etc sounds like more trouble than its worth

Tell the truth, MD, we squirt milk at each other

Actually, that's pretty gross, even by my standards

I can't do the discreet thing either. When dd2 was exclusively bf I had so much milk I leaked the whole time - the breastpad that could cope has not yet been invented - or as soon as I got ready I showered milk everywhere. Now my supply is under contol but dd2 smacks away, comes off with a pop, sits up and smiles at everyone, pops back on again, more smacking.... I tried to get her to keep quiet in church the other day by bf and she did this all the way through the sermon! And no-one in my rather old-fashioned church batted an eyelid.

i had a lovely fountain of breastmilk go across my bed last night. good job its laundry day lol.

lk, the porn analogy just takes my breath away, but hey, you signed the petition, so who am I to tell you what to think eh?
Your views are intereting, and Ilike to hear what you say.

I think there is a bigd/ence between those who are inelegant b/feeders and those who are doing a deliberate 'in yer face' style b/feeding thing.
My own dear sister will often leave her boobs out after her ds has fed. We laugh and tell her to pack 'em away!!

(I used to be an 'elegant' feeder, but it's now all going horribly wrong as ds is now as nosey as his father, and as active and squirmy as me!)

I'm really glad we've got wooden floors everywhere, I used to leave a trail!

Hunker,I'd love to squirt milk, just for the sheer childish joy of it!!
Never leaked a drop in my life however....

DS used to have sparkly droplets across his head when he was being nosey

my porn analogy was all i could come up with at short notice!

i have some interesting views regarding many topics,

hope i havent offended anyone.

moondog.......are you posted on members profiles?

No lk, never did that. Just launched straight in..on this topic would you believe ('NOOOOOO of course not!!! How unlikely!' I hear you cry!)

By the time I found out about it, it was weeks later.
Anyway, I always bang on about my strange life in the wilderness of Turkey. Figure I've already doled out tmi!

so moondog, i find you intriguing, tell me more.

Lk, boring really (sorry for aside folks)
Live in Van in far east of Turkey (near to Iran) as dh works on EU project there. SAHM at present to dd (4) and ds (8 mths) although did do clinical NHS work until recently (will be deliberately vague re exact field).
Life in Van pretty wild and isolated, thus spend FAR too much time discussing bloody b/feeding on MN when I should be doing something more useful like learning more Turkish/playing with my children/starting on my long dreamt of PhD!!

mmmm, never ventured to turkey.
yes you must be studying your new language, not chatting on mumsnet...naughty.

thanks for the insight on your life, i must stop being so bloody nosey!

Au contraire! I'm flattered by your interest. I shall look up your profile now, before shutting down. Good Night!

I am b/feeding my DS still. We had a hellish journey back from my mum's with one very overtired baby who refused to go to sleep. During a 2 and a half hour journey I fed him three times in the vain hope that he might go to sleep. By the third time all attempts at being as discreet had vanished. DS went from cooing at anyone who may glance at him to screaming the carriage down in a matter of seconds for the entire journey. By that time, I didn't care at all who saw my nipple. I just wanted everyone to stop staring at the woman with the screaming baby! The difference between off boob to on boob was so noticable in sound levels that everyone must of know what I was doing anyhow!
BTW after my very faught journey, Ds, of course, decided sleep time came less than five minutes outside waterloo!

Brian who won the first Big Brother, said on a flight we were on while I was bfing my ds that he thought breastfeeding was disgusting. He said it loud enough for my stepdaughter (12 at the time) to overhear. I was horrified and wrote a complaint letter to RyanAir who said I made the whole thing up!

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