I have a baby. I breast feed him, because it’s the healthiest thing for my son.
I’m sick to death of all the grossed out looks I get if I can’t get everything I need to get done finished in the 2 hours I have between feedings. It is a natural part of life, people. I will not feed my child in a public restroom. It’s unsanitary.
So should I and all the other moms just let our babies starve? Grow up. They’re breasts and they’re doing what they were built for. Feeding a baby. —These Here Are Workin’ Boobs
This article appears in Aug 12-18, 2010.
Just ignore them.. there’s absolutely nothing wrong with breast feeding in public. They’re probably jealous of your big, juicy, milk filled knockers.
I wouldn’t feed my child in a restroom either. Some of the family rooms are nice but they sometimes smell like shit.
o.p.,i’m a guy who has a baby not quite a month old yet. his mom wanted to breast feed him, but thanks to fate, she can’t. she broke her leg in 3 places the day after she got him to my place. she was put on pain killers and no way she do it now. my grandson is a happy little guy. but to the point, only really fucked up people see anything wrong with breast feeding.everytime i see a mom take one out, i ask if it makes her feel uncomfortable with me there, if she says yes, thenn i move away to give her a bit of privacy. to all the gawkers, get a fucking life, i think it is cool that moms wants to feed ala natural.
Don’t worry about those losers, OP.
Personally, I think BOOBZ R awwwwwwesome!
Depends. If you’re waving your tit around in a really obvious attempt to draw attention to your public breast feeding, then yes, people should be disgusted with your behaviour. If you’re being discreet, with a blanket or sheet covering you then there should be no problem.
Honestly, I don’t give a shit about mothers rights and babies needing to be fed if I’ve got a huge, dripping, veiny dug of a tit being waved in front of me. I don’t want to see it, it’s not a beautiful thing, keep it away.
Pavillion…maybe moms wave their tit around to position it right so it won’t be awkward/painful…. And we see so many “not beautiful” things in public that people “wave around” on purpose, but a mother breastfeeding a baby isn’t one of them. If it offends you, YOU keep away. Mothers with babies aren’t so mobile, and mothers with hungry babies less so.
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If some woman pulled out her breast next to me in a resturant I wouldn’t like it. There is a time and place for everything. Am I saying you should be in a dirty bathroom? No, but if you feel the need to breast feed in public then be mindful of the other people around you. Just because YOU think its fine doesn’t mean everyone else does.
I look at it as a similar thing (similar in the sense of time and place…not similar in act) to public displays of affection…..It isn’t illegal to make out in public, but generally the average person doesn’t want to see anyone swallow the face of their mate. That’s my opinion, but opinions are like assholes….everyone has one and most of them stink.
If some woman pulled out her breast next to me in a resturant I wouldn’t like it. There is a time and place for everything. Am I saying you should be in a dirty bathroom? No, but if you feel the need to breast feed in public then be mindful of the setting and other people around you. Just because YOU think its fine doesn’t mean everyone else does.
I look at it as a similar thing (similar in the sense of time and place…not similar in act) to public displays of affection…..It isn’t illegal to make out in public, but generally the average person doesn’t want to see anyone swallow the face of their mate. That’s my opinion, but opinions are like assholes….everyone has one and most of them stink.
Agreed Xeno. It is natural and no babies should starve but carry along a blanket or something to just cover around whatever (I’m not a mom, I don’t know the logistics). If no blanket then discretely turn or excuse yourself from convo etc. Most people understand, will be very kind and respect the mother by giving her some space if the mother is respectful to them.
I was walking downtown with my kids the other day and there was a woman sitting at the boat playground, openingly, not discreetly, breastfeeding her 4 year old. I dont care if woman breastfeed in public, if I have another I probably will, but I will be discreet about it.
And us men can all take a lesson from this and be discrete in our gawking. Wear shades, pretend to read a book, no flogging the bishop and absolutely don’t stick a fiver in the kid’s huggie when the show’s over. Courtesy and mutual respect are the grease that lubricate the wheels of a modern community.
four year old…the laleche league would have you do it til they’re five. i breast feed my spawn til he was 6 months old. thanks ivan, wisdom and wackiness all in one^^
Breastfeeding her 4 year old …
Breastfeeding a 4 year old? Now that’s just sick.
Breastfeeding discretely is fine…..I doubt the Moms are yanking out a big boob, letting it flap and flop, and then having the baby latch on the teet.
I’ve got no problem with moms whipping out a teat and letting the spawn lock on. It’s about as natural as it can get.
What drives me crazy is the pure unadulterated selfishness. If you’re going to eat it front of other people, it’s only polite to offer some to others. I mean, really, it’s titiquette.
Titiquette >: ) I Rawk noo wurdz.
I am a mom who breastfeeds in public all the time. Alot of babies dispise eating with anything covering their heads and I ask anyone who thinks they should should to try eating their dinner with a blanket over their head and see how easy it is… now with that said I still try to be somewhat discreet. I have clothing that is made for breastfeeding and very rarely is any of my breasy showing. I do think it is totally up to the mother though and do not think she should be judged. As a Certified Breastfeeding Educator, I do believe and encourage prolonged and exclusive Breastfeeding. I do think age 4 is longer then most… I do not think I personally would be comfortable going that long… but everyone is different…
Breasts are for feeding babies. Breast feeding a hungry infant is unnatural??? Bottles are unnatural! Breast feeding moms aren’t the ones being gross. People who object to feeding one’s infant are gross! Who the hell would deny a baby it’s right to be fed when hungry? How absurdly selfish do people have to be to think their discomfort over a (non-sexually) suckled breast trumps a babies right to be fed? Get over yourselves. Breasts are for nourishing babies. Suckling adults are sooooo very infantile. Nothing is more of a turn-off than a sexual partner who wants to particpate in infantile suckling of breasts. Grow up and get over the obsession with your mommy’s titties.
But a little motorboating between consensual adults never hurt anybody, right?
>; )
What’s natural anymore? *sigh
Feel free to ignore ignoramuses that would sneer at you for doing the most natural wonderful thing! Good for you and keep it up! 🙂
Geesh, y’all act like y’all never seen a booby or been breast-fed before. Let the babies eat. Brats gotta eat too!
Motorboating??? Have I been missing out on something Ivan The Self-chastiser? Catch me up…
My pleasure Lovely Lady of the Ocean. It merely requires the presence of 1 active participant (any gender), the Motorboat-ER and 1 passive participant (female, preferably packing something a tad bigger than Kate Moss type skeeter bites) the Motorboat-EE.
The Motorboater places his head between the Motorboatee’s breastesses and goes MBLBLMBLMBLMBLMBLMBLMBLMBLMBLMBLMBLMBLMBLM
until the Motorboatee smacks him on the top of the head and tells him to grow the fuck up. At least, that’s been my experience.
I had to ask, didn’t I! Wicked humour and injuries sustained during a recent bicyle lipstand-dismount incident (not recommended) are a painful combo! Ouch! Motorboating seems to me to be almost a requesite to a successful mating ritual between consenting adults. Now that I am enlightened, any future encounters will seem lacking without a little putt around the bay at some point during the proceedings:)
Godspeed John Glenn. My suggestion – whichever role you assume, wait until the lipstand injuries heal before trying this at home.
Happy to provide cheaplarfs; sorry for causing unnecessary pain. >; )
the giving of pearl necklaces is another fun little mating ritual 🙂
No one said it was fucking unnatural, dumbass.
I said I don’t want to have to watch it in public especially since a light blanket would happily cover the entire thing up, and still give the baby food in a public space. There’s no fucking need to be displaying dripping, ugly dugs in public when the solution is simple.
“dripping, ugly dugs”
Tell that to your mom Pavillion. lol
She keeps them covered now, happily enough, and I’m afraid my memory is not good enough to recall seeing them in that state. An amnesia I am quite happy to retain.
Also, she agrees with me on women flipping out their tits to breast feed in public without a blanket.
And finally, what a fucking stupid comment to make. I recognise that you’re trying to make some kind of sarcastic joke by playing off my mother and any connections to breast feeding of myself, but it’s a fucking lame joke. Total failure in making any sort of fucking point about my view of breastfeeding. Come up with something better.
She roped you, sucka. That whole, “ma momma agree wit me” tells us you still live at home.
Yes, people who move out of their house never once speak to or visit their parents ever again once they move out of their parent’s home. You’re a fucking dumbass too.
Oops I guess I offended you by suggesting that maybe you could show some understanding for mothers who feel the need to feed their babies, just as your mother had to feed you when you were a baby. Ugly to you or not, those mothers use their breasts to give food to their babies. If you don’t want to see them, look away or suggest them gently to move to a more private location. Calling them ugly or worse…not very nice.
And since when “making a point” is a requisite on the bitch board?
Okay, since you’re apparently too fucking stupid to understand the first couple of times I said it, I will try once more.
Breastfeeding is fine and dandy, and surely your baby needs food, but I do not want to have to see your fucking breast.
There is a very fucking simple solution.
If you breastfeed in public cover yourself with a blanket or other similar device.
A nice little compromise: I don’t have to see your dug and you get to breast feed your baby wherever you may please.
Hopefully this will penetrate your thick skull this time.
And since when is being nice a requisite on the bitch board?
Being nice isn’t a requisite on the bitch board, but it is a good quality to have in a human being.
I don’t even know why you are picking on me so much tonight. It wasn’t even me who told people to just “look away”, instead of putting all this demand on mothers to be so considerate of others who may be so offended by their tittiage. On a totally side note, if the breast feeding mother was young and smoking hot and if her boobies were gloriously shaped, coloured, and textured, would you still be offended? Just out of curiosity.
I am not picking on you so much tonight because you are you, but simply because you are making stupid responses to this thread, which I am finding interesting. I don’t even pay attention to the names of the posters for the most part.
The second part: yes, I would still be offended because I am an equal opportunity hater.
Also, by that statement, you’re assuming that I’m a straight male. I’ve never indicated if I were male or female, straight or gay, married or single, have children or not. None of those things have any fucking relevance to the topic.
lol I like the expression “equal opportunity hater”.
I am not assuming anything. I am a straight female but I would still gawk at beautiful women and their bodies while I may be offended by male nudity depending on what’s shown. So that’s why I said just out of curiosity, to see if you would be offended equally by non-ugly breast-feeding or just by ugly ones. Thanks for clarification, and I am relieved that you are not picking on me for perhaps my gnome avatar with ugly boobies hanging out.
It’s great that women who can do breast feed. My mom tried and didn’t have enough milk and had to put me on formula because I wasn’t getting enough to eat.
That being said, I turned out a-o-k *shrug*
Also: my response to people who complain that women don’t take their kids to the bathroom to breast feed is usually something along the lines of “why don’t you go eat a sandwich in the can and see how you like it.” Just because babies can’t “talk” in a language we can readily understand, doesn’t mean they’re inferior beings.
Alsox2: question for the breast feeding moms out there — what’s the deal with pumping and storing milk? I’ve always wondered if it was an option for those who aren’t comfortable breast feeding in public (or for women who go back to work or aren’t present to breast feed when required for whatever reason). Thoughts?
I thought that was because if you don’t keep pumping the milk, the production slows or for when the milk just won’t come out every time the baby needs to drink? But with the plastic bottle chemical news last couple of days, more people would try and breastfeed now I think.
This was very entertaining to read.
“Posted by Pretty Kitty on August 17, 2010 at 4:45 AM”
God, way too early for me.
they have a 4:45 in the AM now too?
holy crap…
pk: Pumping and storing milk is different for everyone. But in my own experience it hurt, it took for freakin’ ever (like an hour or two for enough milk for maybe one feeding that would take 15 minutes straight from the breast).
The best part was that after I had pumping a few bottles worth I realized that the boy child would NOT drink from anything but the boob, so I suffered the pumping for nothing. I really enjoyed the bonding time we got through feeding though, and even though it meant I was exhausted for a little more than about a year and a half it was totally worth it.
And it can’t be attributed to the mama-milk, (I’m sure all the reading and ECE methods helped) but my weeman is whip smart – although likely a future boob man I think 🙂
Also, in my case. I didn’t need to pump – after about the first week your body adjusts milk production to the wee one’s eating habits. I tried pumping so that daddy could feed too, and mama could rest. But alas, no rest for the wicked I guess…
I would also feed my child anywhere, whether I had a blanket or not. That said I didn’t just haul them out in front of anyone at any time, that’s just not necessary. For my own comfort I would find a quiet corner, or lightly drape a blanket – not all over his face, but just in the vicinity – to shield people from seeing and to shield my breasts from being seen. I hated when I got those leering stares. The way I did it in most cases if you saw something you were looking pretty hard.