Breast feeding - A time and a place?

[pasty]

Now I have put up with most things on my daily grind on commuter trains - mobile phone users, laptop users, MP3s being played too loud, people eating, people snooring, people farting etc etc but yesterday a new one took me by surprise.

A lady with a baby sat directly opposite me, on a packed commuter train from London and Brighton, in the middle of rush hour, and promtly lopped out her right breast and started feeding the baby

Now I know it's a perfectly natural thing to do, and people should accept it as such, and I'm no prude by a long way. But surely, there's a time and place it? Put me right off my suduko I can tell you.

 

[Clothes Peg]

When a baby needs feeding, it needs feeding. If she hadn't done it, you would have had to put up with a screaming infant on the train!

 

[Bad Ash]

Did she have a nice booby?

 

[Les Biehn]

Saggy milk tits, never good

 

[Dave the OAP]

DONT GET ME STARTED ON WANKERS ON THE TRAIN BEATING HELKL OUT OF THEIR KEYBOARDS!!!!!!!!! TAP THE THING YOU f***ing ANNOYING GITS




and relax


Nothing wrong with breastfeeding btw

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

breastfeeding is natural

a mother should be able to feed her child anywhere and anytime the child needs it


anyone who gets offended by a breast being used for its ACTUAL purpose needs to take a long look at THEMSELVES

 

[The Large One]

Breastfeeding is perfectly natural and a damn sight quieter than keyboard-tapping, public mobile phone conversations and the T-T-T-T of the headphones on someone's MP3 player on a train.

The alternative is the baby screams the carriage down.

 

[Seagullible]

Now I know it's a perfectly natural thing to do, and people should accept it as such, and I'm no prude by a long way. But surely, there's a time and place it? Put me right off my suduko I can tell you.

the time is when the baby is hungry and the place is wherever is convenient.

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

FFS. A woman breastfeeding is not equivalent to a bloke sitting on the train having one off the wrist...boobies are nice fun when making babies, once babies are born, boobies are lunch.

 

[Shegull]

*****sitsbackandwaitsforstarry*****


Would you rather she had taken the baby to the dirty smelly toilet

 

[tedebear]

I agree with Pasty. Completely ridiculous that just because I have a baby it should be acceptable to flop it out in public.

I breastfed to a routine. I knew when Arthur would get hungry so managed to make sure I was at home or in an appropriate place. I wouldn't flop my tits out when I wasn't feeding so what makes it right when I am?

I don't want to see other womens floppy tits so why is it acceptable for them to force it on me...Where's the common decency these days....

 

[tedebear]

*****sitsbackandwaitsforstarry*****


Would you rather she had taken the baby to the dirty smelly toilet

No - why was she on the train? Poor child has to fit into her routine as she wants or needs to go back to work! Sad days for society methinks....

 

[Shegull]

I agree with Pasty. Completely ridiculous that just because I have a baby it should be acceptable to flop it out in public.

I breastfed to a routine. I knew when Arthur would get hungry so managed to make sure I was at home or in an appropriate place. I wouldn't flop my tits out when I wasn't feeding so what makes it right when I am?

I don't want to see other womens floppy tits so why is it acceptable for them to force it on me...Where's the common decency these days....

In fairness tho Ted not all babies stick to a complete routine and it isn't always possible to be at home when hunger strikes. Are most women not discreet to a certain degree tho.

 

[Dave the OAP]

I agree with Pasty. Completely ridiculous that just because I have a baby it should be acceptable to flop it out in public.

I breastfed to a routine. I knew when Arthur would get hungry so managed to make sure I was at home or in an appropriate place. I wouldn't flop my tits out when I wasn't feeding so what makes it right when I am?

I don't want to see other womens floppy tits so why is it acceptable for them to force it on me...Where's the common decency these days....

look the other way then....

bloody aussies

 

[tedebear]

In fairness tho Ted not all babies stick to a complete routine and it isn't always possible to be at home when hunger strikes. Are most women not discreet to a certain degree tho.

True some babies don't, however you know within a certain window when your babe will require feeding, and to be in a rather public and up close space like a train is just plain wrong imho!! I also believe wome women use breastfeeding as a way of shutting their baby up - but don't get me started on that!!

Some women are discreet - but I have seen some who think its their god given right to flaunt it... makes me ill frankly....

 

[John Dorian]

I think we are all missing one fundamental detail here people...what was her boobie like ?

 

[Dave the OAP]

I think we are all missing one fundamental detail here people...what was her boobie like ?

full of milk obviously

 

[The Large One]

I wouldn't flop my tits out when I wasn't feeding so what makes it right when I am?

Wouldn't you say that's a kind of self-answered question? In other words, it makes it right (or at least, acceptable) BECAUSE you are breast-feeding.

Obviously, no-one was forcing to breastfeed in public, and it's your choice not to but, because of societal considerations of what breasts have come to represent, there are, sadly, some people have come to believe that breastfeeding in public is all about the breast (and therefore a certain level of exhibitionism), when really it ought to be all about the feeding.

Incidentally, what would you have done if that woman had been sitting opposite you on the train? Would you have asked her to stop, or would you have sufferedd in silence? Just curious, like.

 

[tedebear]

Wouldn't you say that's a kind of self-answered question? In other words, it makes it right (or at least, acceptable) BECAUSE you are breast-feeding.

Obviously, no-one was forcing to breastfeed in public, and it's your choice not to but, because of societal considerations of what breasts have come to represent, there are, sadly, some people have come to believe that breastfeeding in public is all about the breast (and therefore a certain level of exhibitionism), when really it ought to be all about the feeding.

Incidentally, what would you have done if that woman had been sitting opposite you on the train? Would you have asked her to stop, or would you have sufferedd in silence? Just curious, like.

Nope - a breast is a breast - because I'm feeding makes no difference. Did you ever see anyone feeding in public 30-40 years ago? No? So why now? Why is it so right to share so much which should be personal with every Tom, Dick and Harry on the street. I don't want to show you my boobs any more than you want to see them, especially at 7am over the morning paper on a train!

I don't suffer in silence when I see other women feed in public - but I do change my mental opinion about them!

 

[larus]

Maybe she had a train to catch at a certain time and the baby was not hungry before she got on the train. So she should have woken it early to feed it to risk not offending poor delicate commuters.

Sorry, we get so hung up over tits in this country it's unbelievable.

Breasts are designed for feeding babies. Now it's deemed wrong to feed babies in front of other people because as a society we have turned breasts into sex organs.

Streeewth.