Breast Feeding in Public (legal, discount, American, breastfeeding)

[grammy164]

Originally Posted by Rapture

A several years ago I was bartending in a restaurant and just passing by a table I caught a woman out of the corner of my eye breast feeding. She was covered up but it does make you do a double take. When I looked over again I saw she was with two men and one was John Bon Jovi. The woman was his wife, so I was surprised that she would do anything that brings attention to the table when they obviously don't want to be bothered. Then I thought more about it and felt, that's so cool she doesn't care what others think she's just feeding her baby.

Great story, Rapture.

[Rapture]

Grammy, how are you? I hope you have a wonderful thanksgiving! I just tried to bake two pies and one fell and smashed all over. : ( Oh well I guess I'll have to share the other one. : )

[MoMark]

Originally Posted by Rapture

Grammy, how are you? I hope you have a wonderful thanksgiving! I just tried to bake two pies and one fell and smashed all over. : ( Oh well I guess I'll have to share the other one. : )

I empathize. I baked Isabella's Flan this afternoon after making a huge mess where the mixture overflowed the blender and splattered the kitchen walls, counters, me, my legs, the cupboards, and the floor ... I meant to clean the kitchen anyway as I'm hosting tomorrow...but this now required a massive cleanup and I finally just finished minutes ago with mopping all the tile floors in the house with PineSol while shutting the laundry room door so the cats wouldn't walk across it, go into their box, then create litter mud across my newly cleaned floors! (I've noticed that the moment I change the litter, they have to get in and scratch and scratch and scratch while throwing it all over.. same thing with wet floors... they just HAVE to walk across them seconds after they're mopped and jump in the box). I vacuumed all the carpets and just got done with a load of dishes...I'm exhausted. I'm leaving the house tonight, locking the doors, and inviting myself somewhere else where they'll do all the work. This sucks. Oh, and back to topic...breast feeding is allowed in my house The age of cut-off though is lower than some of the other men suggested....suckling has to be "nip"ped in the bud sometimes

[grammy164]

Originally Posted by Rapture

Grammy, how are you? I hope you have a wonderful thanksgiving! I just tried to bake two pies and one fell and smashed all over. : ( Oh well I guess I'll have to share the other one. : )

I'm good, Rapture. Thank you for asking. I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving as well.
Sorry about your pie and sorry about MoMark's flan. At least you both had messes though. Your stories made me think of one of my cooking catastrophes. I once decided to make a boston creme pie from scratch. I timed the cake part of it and when it was time to remove it from the oven I pulled it out and realized I had forgotten to use any oven mitts. OUCH!!!! I dropped the pan immediately--it flipped over as it fell to the floor, but guess what.... not one crumb fell off. That cake was so hard, I could barely remove it from the pan. Had to throw the whole thing out.
I'm sure the pie you have left will be delicious and I'm sure MoMark's guest will enjoy his flan.
Have a great holiday!

[momof2dfw]

Originally Posted by MoMark

The age of cut-off though is lower than some of the other men suggested....suckling has to be "nip"ped in the bud sometimes

I think the age in which one should stop being the meal for babies/children stops early for most men but then when they hit a certain age it restarts later on and the need nor want never subsides.

[MaryBB]

I'm somewhat of a stranger here amongst you regulars but I bf'ed my kids til they were 3-ish. It wasn't something I was thrilled with but I've been a working mom and they very much wanted to nurse so combined with mommy guilt of leaving them, my own missing them and their desire I kept it up. It's a personal thing. Neither of them has ever had an ear infection, they've been really healthy too. They get immunity factors from the mom, as well as other elements they don't get from food, so I don't believe it's a bad thing if you feel you are helping your kid more to keep it up. Who cares anyway?

[pixieshmoo]

Originally Posted by connie

I've heard exactly the same thing. I nursed all 4 of my kids for 1 year, except the eldest, whom I nursed about 6 months. Then I did formula and used Carnation. I had no problems either.

One thing that helped with nursing in public - I always, always wore a nursing shirt if I was going to nurse in public. They are a pain to buy and wear, but I found them helpful for discreet nursing. Although I have no problem nursing in public, it's always been a nice excuse when we are visiting my husband's family to go into a back bedroom!

Several posters have stated that they have seen women nursing indiscreetly and that some women let it all hang out. I guess I need a stronger prescription on my contacts, or perhaps I'm too much in my own world! Never have seen a thing .... Maybe I should ask my husband??!!

Good Start is wonderful!!! I used it with all of my children (after experimenting with Similac and Enfamil...Similac was good, a little rough on the stomach of my youngest, she ended up with the Good Start Soy, but I didn't like Enfamil at all). Good Start does have the same nutrients and it is cheaper than the others. I think people have also gotten turned off by it because it was the quote "welfare" formula. They use that for WIC (women, infants, children). But who cares?! It's good for them, mine did wonderful and lastly, it shouldn't be about "welfare"....formula and diapers are expensive, if you can save money and still have good quality, you should go for it.

[jkmewright]

Ya'll have made some wonderful points! My lil one NEVER got an ear infection and didn't get sick until his first teeth came in @ 9 months. But that doesn't count in my book. And HECK YEAH it was cheap! The most I spent was $20 on a chintzy pump @ the drug store and some pocket change on freezer bags to store it up for Omi when she watched the lil one for me. Plus, we didn't have to wean him off the bottle which I hear is a nightmare. Reps for you w/good points and some others that made me laugh!

[dullnboring]

Originally Posted by connie

Several posters have stated that they have seen women nursing indiscreetly and that some women let it all hang out. I guess I need a stronger prescription on my contacts, or perhaps I'm too much in my own world! Never have seen a thing .... Maybe I should ask my husband??!!

You're not alone. I've never seen a woman with her boob just hanging out and her little baby gnawing away. I'm a guy so I have infrared radar for boobs on the loose and still have yet to see this epidemic of boob-baring women. I've only ever seen women breast-feeding in public a handful of times and each of those times, they were covered up. Either way, I don't care. They're just breasts. I don't see why anyone cares. If it disgusts you, just don't look.

[christina0001]

I don't mind women breastfeeding in public. My first experience with it was relatively recently, about 2 years ago when a coworker had a baby and brought the baby in. During her visit she breastfed. It was her 2nd baby and she was a complete expert - I have no idea how she opened her shirt, put a small blanket over her shoulder, fed the baby, and then closed her shirt without me ever seeing any breast, but she did, right in the middle of our office with the door open. I was really impressed. I am not yet a mother, but I would think a mother would prefer to feed her baby someplace quiet and comfortable, so if a mother is feeding her baby in a public place, I would imagine it is out of necessity and should be respected. Babies have to eat. I prefer breastfeeding mothers be discreet; I would feel uncomfortable if I saw a woman with her breast hanging out, uncovered, before during or after a feeding, but I don't really think it's worth making a fuss about. I only feel uncomfortable because it is probably something the woman would prefer to not have strangers staring at. But it's just a breast; men walk around with their shirts off all the time so if a woman's breast is exposed for a bit then so be it. As for breast feeding a 2 year old in public, not covering the breast, I would feel a bit uncomfortable (why can't she cover her breast? why can't the child just eat a cookie or have a sippy cup? I would think a 2 year old, even if not weaned, would not be on a diet of solely breast milk), but it's definitely not worth the media attention it got. I was bothered when some people said they were annoyed by public breastfeeding because they didn't know how to explain it to their children. Why is explaining breastfeeding to a child hard? That is how some babies are fed. Breasts are a part of a woman's body and biologically, it is what breasts are designed to do. It's not hard to explain.