Breast feeding - A time and a place?

[Nibble]

Sometimes I am hungry enough to suck tit on a train, but I think it far more socially responsible to wait until I find a quiet, more private location to suck tit. Although sometimes I suck tit in public in other places apart from sucking tit on a train. Sometimes I suck tit in the park or I suck tit in the privacy of my back garden but I am not sure if sucking tit in the back garden is as public as sucking tit on the train although sucking tit in the back garden is certainly public but maybe not as public as sucking tit on the train. Is it ok to suck tit in my back garden? 'cos it seems contoversial to suck tit on the train so maybe I should be careful about sucking tit in the garden but definately more careful if I was sucking tit on the train. Such a puzzle the old sucking tit in public as oppose to sucking tit on the train or sucking tit in any other public place. Perhaps I should avoid all sucking tit confusion and jus suck tit in the privacy of my home so as not to cause a train tit sucking situation?

 

[tedebear]

Have you had some luncheon bevvies Nibble?

 

[Nibble]

Have you had some luncheon bevvies Nibble?

I wish - I have just spent my last spare cash paying off my holiday and I only got paid today!

 

[tedebear]

I wish - I have just spent my last spare cash paying off my holiday and I only got paid today!

Right that explains the fascination with tits today then, its free to think about them!!

 

[severnside gull]

Nothing more natural than breeastfeeding a baby and the right time is when the baby wants feeding. Now doing friggin sudoku on the other hand.......................

 

[Nibble]

Right that explains the fascination with tits today then, its free to think about them!!

Yes! although I did post a remarkably erudite comment on this thread a minute ago and it got overlooked so I thought I would just talk rubbish instead.

 

[tedebear]

Yes! although I did post a remarkably erudite comment on this thread a minute ago and it got overlooked so I thought I would just talk rubbish instead.

Fair enough! I saw your post but dismissed it as being a reasonable and well thought out question about society - so I gave it a swerve....

 

[Lush]

Breastfeeding in public you mean?

It's just a real shame that there should be anything yucky about breastfeeding a baby EVER, when it's obviously the best thing for a baby.

What's more important? Other people's sensitivities - that are merely a product of social conditioning? Or that a baby can be fed with the best thing for it, wherever they may be at the time?

If breastfeeding was a more common and acceptable sight generally then more women would do it. Instead women see other people's disgusted reactions and some get put off trying to breastfeed at all.

 

[Jimbo26]

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.

Make the most of it !!

 

[Buffalo Seagull]

If you can't stand watching women breastfeed their babies, maybe you'd prefer this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvEe9HVBuaM

 

[Fran Hagarty]

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.

Full marks to her for breast feeding rather than using bottles of formula milk. The latter is what I find offensive. How come mothers have breastfed their babies for thosands of years but now some mothers see fit to use some inferior substitute? Sorry if I'm on my high horse but it's something I feel really strongly about. I could go on with the whys and wherefors, but this isn't really the place to do so!

 

[Fran Hagarty]

My boy wouldn't take a bottle of boobie milk, he just wanted boobies!

Hear! Hear! Neither of mine would take exprssed milk from a bottle - they'd just reject the teat.

 

[Fran Hagarty]

I can't be bothered with sterilising, expressing, freezing, defrosting, boiling a kettle and warming it up. Other things to be doing with my time, I'm lazy, not having to get out of bed at 2am come downstairs to warm a bottle up works for me! I'm lucky I can stay home and feed her when she needs it so we have no need for bottles. That said she has just started walking and being miss independent so I am not sure she'll be after the boobies for much longer

I only used them with Anastasia when she was sick and it was just another hassle to add into our day.

 

[Starry]

Re: Re: Breast feeding - A time and a place?

Full marks to her for breast feeding rather than using bottles of formula milk. The latter is what I find offensive. How come mothers have breastfed their babies for thosands of years but now some mothers see fit to use some inferior substitute? Sorry if I'm on my high horse but it's something I feel really strongly about. I could go on with the whys and wherefors, but this isn't really the place to do so!

Ditto ditto.

Breast is best and not just for nutrition, it cleared up my older daughters conjunctivitis a few weeks ago.

Hopefully the law will change very soon here to make it an offence to ask a woman to move or stop nursing her baby. The Scots are leaps and bounds ahead of us on this.

 

[dougdeep]

100% natural behaviour, I'd have no problems with it at all.

 

[Mrs Coach]

I fed in public and I did it discreetly but when I was feeding Lil' Coach a few years back in Woolworths cafe at lunchtime an old git (who was breaking his neck to get an eyeful, and was probably pissed off because I had him UNDER my long top) asked the waitress "IS THAT ALLOWED?" in a very loud voice. The waitress got a cheer from some of the other diners when she replied (equally loudly!) "Yes, sir, it's very much allowed. And this is a family restaurant. We welcome babies here."

I still felt rather embarassed though....... git.........

 

[John Bumlick]

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....

you are f***ing insane.

 

[Grendel]

On a slightly different tack, when did it become acceptable for people to take their babies into hostelries? The last thing I want when I'm sitting down with my pint and my smokes is to hear some wretched kid screaming and crying in the middle of a pub.

A few years ago no-one would have dreamt of taking a baby down to the boozer with them. Now, it seems as though many parents think it is their God-given right to do so.

 

[Starry]

I fed in public and I did it discreetly but when I was feeding Lil' Coach a few years back in Woolworths cafe at lunchtime an old git (who was breaking his neck to get an eyeful, and was probably pissed off because I had him UNDER my long top) asked the waitress "IS THAT ALLOWED?" in a very loud voice. The waitress got a cheer from some of the other diners when she replied (equally loudly!) "Yes, sir, it's very much allowed. And this is a family restaurant. We welcome babies here."

I still felt rather embarassed though....... git.........

This country needs more people like that waitress.

 

[DJ Leon]

It's interesting to hear from a mother who thinks it socially unacceptable to breastfeed a child in public. Personally I would prefer it if most mothers would feel as socially aware about their screaming or misbehaving children. I'm much more concerned about that than someone breastfeeding in public.