Breast feeding - A time and a place?

[The Large One]

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!

Fair enough.

But there is one question in there intrigues me. Did you ever see anyone feeding in public 30-40 years ago? That kind of harks back to my point about societal acceptance. Lots of things were not considered acceptable 30-40 years ago, but are now. Breastfeeding, it appears, is one of them.

 

[The Large One]

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.

...is the point I was trying to make but which you have made with far more clarity.

 

[John Dorian]

Pasty...you should have stopped her breastfeeding, looked deep into her eyes and uttered the one word that every breast feeding mum wants to hear....



"BITTY ?"

 

[Ding Dong !]

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....

Eh !!!

There is no routine for a new born and child under 6 months to be honest. They feed little and often and all babies are also different. Most women who breastfeed generally are pretty discreet about it to.

Can't see the problem myself.

 

[Lady Bracknell]

I'm not very keen on MILITANT breastfeeding of the type that involves challenging someone to complain! And for sure, I have been in the company of women who were absolutely determined to provoke an argument about what should be a natural process.

Because quietly, discreetly and calmly getting on with feeding a hungry baby is actually better for the child. When my lads were babies I preferred not to feed them in hostile atmospheres but equally, I wasn't prepared to hide away in horrible train toilets either. Only there's a perfectly sensible middle course that involves nobody other than the baby getting a titfull.

 

[Seagullible]

Pasty...you should have stopped her breastfeeding, looked deep into her eyes and uttered the one word that every breast feeding mum wants to hear....



"BITTY ?"

 

[NMH]

Y' could have asked her to get the other one out f' the lads, or just say "that's a nice titty, if I was that baby....."

 

[Tooting Gull]

What's happened here is that tedebear has owned up to a certain discretion on this issue totally lacking in whole swathes of society these days, so she's copping it from the PC point-scorers.

No one wants the baby to go hungry, but getting your baps out on a train sat opposite three strange blokes should be as a last resort, rather than as Roz rightly identifies a chance to provoke an argument by some gleeful Millie Tant figure.

 

[tedebear]

Eh !!!

There is no routine for a new born and child under 6 months to be honest. They feed little and often and all babies are also different. Most women who breastfeed generally are pretty discreet about it to.

Can't see the problem myself.

To be honest there is. I fed there or there abouts every three hours during the day until around 3 months and then he was able to go longer, around every 4 hours. Little and often often creates problems of its own.

 

[csider]

You could have asked to suck on the other one.....as for trains with mobiles, farting, snoring etc.....its the fookers playing soduku who p1ss me off.

 

[csider]

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



So you have floppy tits..........nice......

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

anyone who gets offended by a breast being used for its ACTUAL purpose

Being spunked on?

 

[tedebear]

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.

Nope but the point I was trying to make before is that babies are made to fit into peoples routines, when I seriously believe that to a certain extent at that age they shouldn't be subject to it. Problem is many mothers HAVE to go back to work for financial reasons or any other number of reasons, which is why these issues (breastfeeding) are being made more public. In a strange convoluted way I blame a shift in society!

 

[Dave the OAP]

You could have asked to suck on the other one.....as for trains with mobiles, farting, snoring etc.....its the fookers playing soduku who p1ss me off.

why?

 

[Shegull]

Maybe she was a single mother with no other income and had no choice but to go back to work.

How old would the baby have been Pasty?

 

[¤DãŃn¥ §êãGüLL¤]

Breastfeeding is utter wrongness.

I mean, SUCKING YOUR MUMS THRU'PENNIES?? It's f***ing incense.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

... on a train sat opposite three strange blokes

Pasty isn't that strange really.

 

[The Laughing Bluebird]

Why is it so right to share so much which should be personal with every Tom, Dick and Harry on the street.

Is feeding a baby a personal procedure?

 

[Shegull]

Nope but the point I was trying to make before is that babies are made to fit into peoples routines, when I seriously believe that to a certain extent at that age they shouldn't be subject to it. Problem is many mothers HAVE to go back to work for financial reasons or any other number of reasons, which is why these issues (breastfeeding) are being made more public. In a strange convoluted way I blame a shift in society!

I was always told that babies have to settle down into their own routine and while they are trying to do that if they need a feed when the mother is out then so be it.

My babies were made because I wanted them and all that came with them and not to fit into anybody else's routine.

 

[tedebear]

I was always told that babies have to settle down into their own routine and while they are trying to do that if they need a feed when the mother is out then so be it.

My babies were made because I wanted them and all that came with them and not to fit into anybody else's routine.

To a certain extent thats correct, but most babies only need feeding every three hours from birth. With a proper feed, they hold enough in their tummies to keep them giong for three hours.

I think you'll find my son was wanted too and everything that came along with him, however when he was born he knew nothing and at 30 something I think I knew a lot more than he did!