Breast feeding - A time and a place?

[Shegull]

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When women only compartments were introduced in 1840 it was to protect women travelling alone from gross misconduct by gentlemen etc.....

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Was that not also the reason that there were Ladies Rooms on the actual stations so we wouldn't get pestered by men. Nice open fires as well.


Oh and I'm not that old but I do remember there was on in Burgess Hill Station. Used to go in there with my mother when we were waiting on trains back into Brighton.

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

7 pages...I mean 7 pages on Breast feeding issues, I tell ya, this is the peoples football forum this!

 

[tedebear]

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When women only compartments were introduced in 1840 it was to protect women travelling alone from gross misconduct by gentlemen etc.....

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Was that not also the reason that there were Ladies Rooms on the actual stations so we wouldn't get pestered by men. Nice open fires as well.


Oh and I'm not that old but I do remember there was on in Burgess Hill Station. Used to go in there with my mother when we were waiting on trains back into Brighton.

I think there are still a few around with "Ladies Waiting Room" signs above the doors!

 

[Meade's Ball]

They should have compartments on trains that allow horn-polishers and satanists the chance to see local men chocablocking the back entrances of obedient, but naughty goats in allotments these vehicles roll by. If there's none of that going on, then a cock VS dog fight, the cock with it's beak tapered to a barbed, knifish point, and the dog just randy and teased.
Those things might stop me looking at breasts for a while, and feeling jealous.

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

They should have compartments on trains that allow horn-polishers and satanists the chance to see local men chocablocking the back entrances of obedient, but naughty goats in allotments these vehicles roll by. If there's none of that going on, then a cock VS dog fight, the cock with it's beak tapered to a barbed, knifish point, and the dog just randy and teased.
Those things might stop me looking at breasts for a while, and feeling jealous.

Yes, yes they should.

 

[Shegull]

7 pages...I mean 7 pages on Breast feeding issues, I tell ya, this is the peoples football forum this!

Can you suggest anything better to discuss in the close season - other than BB that is

 

[pasty]

7 pages...I mean 7 pages on Breast feeding issues, I tell ya, this is the peoples football forum this!

(1 eek per page)

Didn't realise this would open such a can of worms! I'm not really against breast feeding in public per se, I simply don't think sitting across a train seat, less than 2 feet from someone else is quite appropriate (for want of better word). All a bit "in your face" for my liking. Oh, and the lady concerned, definately had a face on her that very clearly said "Go on, someone say something"

 

[Starry]

(1 eek per page)

Didn't realise this would open such a can of worms! I'm not really against breast feeding in public per se, I simply don't think sitting across a train seat, less than 2 feet from someone else is quite appropriate (for want of better word). All a bit "in your face" for my liking. Oh, and the lady concerned, definately had a face on her that very clearly said "Go on, someone say something"

Where do you think that lady should have gone to feed her baby that would have been less in 'your' face? I have been that woman who hasn't thought twice about feeding Romy on a train in much the same situation, I hate to think someone would be uncomfortable because of one of the most natural things in the world, but my baby comes before the feelings of others I'm afraid.

What does a face that says "Go on say something?" look like? Heh! I might need to wear that face, sometime!

 

[tedebear]

Where do you think that lady should have gone to feed her baby that would have been less in 'your' face? I have been that woman who hasn't thought twice about feeding Romy on a train in much the same situation, I hate to think someone would be uncomfortable because of one of the most natural things in the world, but my baby comes before the feelings of others I'm afraid.

What does a face that says "Go on say something?" look like? Heh! I might need to wear that face, sometime!

To be fair - I've seen that face before and it saddens me....only because I wonder if she's feeding her baby because its hungry or she's feeding her baby to make a social point, or a combination of both...I hope its the former, but I'm sure theres a certain amount of smugness about it....

 

[Lady Bracknell]

I'm sorry but I've also seen that "Go on, say something" face which is why confrontational breastfeeding really saddens me. Like I said earlier, it's the easiest thing in the world to feed a baby discreetly in public. And feeding babies shouldn't be about making a point, it should be about feeding!

I have to say that I used to get particularly irritated by the few people I knew who were so smug about their breastfeeding abilities that, in one case, they continued right up to primary school! And I'm sorry, but I could not see any need for the public breastfeeding of children old enough not to need pushchairs who would walk up and announce that they"d "like a titty feed, now please Mummy"!!

 

[Starry]

Eh, I've fed my three older children up to them not needing a pushchair any more.

I believe in child led weaning and they nursed for as long as they wanted.

I wasn't thinking of the go on say something face as necessarily being a negative thing, I've met some wonderful people because I've nursed in public and they have commented on it. In the same way I sometimes talk to that random lady who is nursing her baby. It takes guts to NIP on a packed train and a friendly word from a fellow NIPer can really make a difference.

 

[Nibble]

Eh, I've fed my three older children up to them not needing a pushchair any more.

I believe in child led weaning and they nursed for as long as they wanted.

I wasn't thinking of the go on say something face as necessarily being a negative thing, I've met some wonderful people because I've nursed in public and they have commented on it. In the same way I sometimes talk to that random lady who is nursing her baby. It takes guts to NIP on a packed train and a friendly word from a fellow NIPer can really make a difference.

Saw a documentary on that and the women seemed like mothers desperate not to let go of the "magic" years of childhood and can see it causing many social problems for the poor children involved.

 

[Starry]

I saw that programme as well, maybe some mothers don't want to let go of the 'magic' years. I don't know, but unlike those mothers I won't keep lactating just for the sake of it.

When the child weans the child weans, I'm not going to attempt to unwean.

 

[tedebear]

Saw a documentary on that and the women seemed like mothers desperate not to let go of the "magic" years of childhood and can see it causing many social problems for the poor children involved.

Magic? Tee hee...

Makes me laugh all this child led stuff...no disrespect to Starry as even though we disagree on things, we've both put alot of thought into doing what works for us and our families.

But personally I have spoken to a couple of ladies in my mother and baby group who went down the child-led (sleeping, weaning, feeding etc.) approach with dire consequences. I do find it hard to believe that as I am 30 something, that I should allow my new born child to direct me in what he wants, when he basically knows nothing...bizarre...

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

Not going to bring anything to the debate other than saw somebody breastfeeding outside a cafe in Sidney street today.

No fuss, no body bothered.

 

[Starry]

Any of you anti public milk boobie ought not to click!

http://www.tmz.com/2007/06/06/maggie-milks-it-in-manhattan/

Some of the comments under this article made me think of this thread.

 

[The British National Party]

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.

What do you expect her to do? pull the emergency cord and get out on the side of the lines?

Why don't you do a survey on the train next time, think you'd find the commuters would say get both breasts out if it shuts the kid up.

 

[medicine man]

My Dad used to work on the trains, one day he saw Jane Asher breast-feed her baby, now every time she is on telly he says "Seen 'er Tit"

 

[pasty]

New breast feeding law planned.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6742955.stm

 

[NMH]

There might arise from this, a time when a man might take out his girlfriend or wife's tits in public, give them a good fondling and sucking in public, and then challenge that he is breast feeding.

And why not?