Re: Should mums have a legal right to breastfeed in public?
 

I wouldn't want to feed a baby in any of the public loos I know of. However clean it is, you are still feeding a baby where somebody might have taken a crap in the last few minutes.

What is the problem with breastfeeding in public? You don't object to the breast, so the feeding is obviously the problem. Why is breastfeeding a baby any more offensive than somebody drinking a canned drink, or eating a sandwich in public?

Re: Should mums have a legal right to breastfeed in public?
 

Get a grip SDA - would you eat your dinner in the toilet ?

Re: Should mums have a legal right to breastfeed in public?
 

I find watching the act of someone else eating, seeing all the food being chomped up while they are waffling to someone else a lot more distasteful than watching some woman egt her boobie out & feed her baby.

Go into the toilet indeed... Do you go into the toilets to pick your nose? Thats distasteful to watch too, yet that itself is a natural act.

I take it that you have not got a baby then....

Re: Should mums have a legal right to breastfeed in public?
 

Probably ;)

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SDA i find this comment and indeed this whole thread laughable, especially started by someone who claims to have a child themselves. Anyone who has spent time with a baby knows that it takes longer than five minutes for the child to stop suckling.....be on the breast or on a teet.

as for your comment about taking the child to the toilets to be breastfeed....i think that is a disgusting thing to say.......and your counter claim that toilets are cleaner this days. absolute nonesense..... toilets contain germs.... it is not healthy for a child to be feed in a toilet...... it is however good for a child to be breast feed.... as someone has rightly said, breasts are not meant to be a sexual toy,(although they are used as such at times) they are meant to feed babies...... and children who are breastfeed (some claim) have a healthier immune system and a healthier bond with their mother.

when i, eventually, have a child, i will breastfeed it (god willing) and i will do it in public if the child is hungry.... i will not flaunt it, but i will also not be shoved into some corner to do it

found this article about the benefits of breast feeding your child http://http://www.nctpregnancyandbab...asp?article=85
clearly it shows that breast feeding is good for the child, and as someone has already pointed out you can't stay stuck in doors (which is unhealthy for mother and child)

Re: Should mums have a legal right to breastfeed in public?
 

We have had mothers breast-feed in our church on the front row.. no-one batted an eye-lid and there is no reason to either.
Personally I think it's a beautiful thing mainly because I like babies anyway.

Breast feeding in public is no problem, there are many ways of making it discreet even if in a busy area. I think Mum's should have the freedom to be proud of their maternal instincts.

This leads nicely on to something I DO think should be stamped on.. spitting (which is actually illegal, *take note scruffy teenagers). Although mainly confined to our chav population, I find it totally revolting and I'm glad that my brother-in-law (a copper) tell's people to clean it up if he see's them do it.

Re: Should mums have a legal right to breastfeed in public?
 

it is a beautiful and natural thing....
and you are quite right their are worse things that people do in public.... spitting is awful

Re: Should mums have a legal right to breastfeed in public?
 

I wouldn't describe breast feeding as beautiful but it certainly is neccessary for some - my daughter simply refuses to take any milk other than her mothers' - if we were out and she needed a feed the of course Alyssa's mum will do it.

Re: Should mums have a legal right to breastfeed in public?
 

Well that's fine, as long as you agree to eat your lunch somewhere secluded too. In fact the way a lot of people eat their lunch makes a baby breastfeeding look positively angelic.

What I don't understand is why you think this. It is one of the most natural things in the world, and no-one is forcing you to look at it.

And you'd want to have your lunch in the gents would you?

Re: Should mums have a legal right to breastfeed in public?
 

My two penneth...

I wouldn;t personally breastfeed my child in public (I wouldn't feel too comfortable doing it myself), I'd think about expressing milk etc...

However, hats off to any mother that wants to, and is comfortable doing it!

Anyone who takes 'offence' to this kind of thing is a complete and utter ignoramus.. :)

Re: Should mums have a legal right to breastfeed in public?
 

Personally I am far more offended by obese people eating in front of me - puts me right off my food.

Re: Should mums have a legal right to breastfeed in public?
 

http://www.breastfeeding.com/advocac...finpublic.html

http://www.thebestfedbaby.com/breast...le.asp?A_ID=45

Re: Should mums have a legal right to breastfeed in public?
 

*can of worms.. open and wriggling ;)

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Re: Should mums have a legal right to breastfeed in public?
 

Sorry, but 'do it in the toilet, it only takes 5 mins' is not an 'adult' opinion. It's ignorant and incredibly misinformed.... :rolleyes: