If you were discreetly nursing your baby in a quiet corner, but in a public place, and some asked you to go somewhere else to nurse, like a restroom.
2006-08-21 20:41:24 · 19 answers · asked by skip_2015 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
Ha Ha.. As a breastfeeding mother I tell them to take their plate of food and go eat in a bathroom someplace. If they were offended by a little breast, that they don't need to look in my direction.
Breastfeeding a baby is natural and some people think that it should be done at home alone. Well they sure have another thing coming if they ask me.
when I was younger (my son is now 7)I was asked to put it away or leave the area I was in...I llaughed in their face and told them to go sit down that it was my right to breastfeed where i sought fit and right where I was was fit. This time (my duaghter is 6 months) I was sitting like you and a couple came over and asked to put it away or go to the rest room...before I could open my mouth, they turned and left. I lifted my shirt a little higher and let it all show. I'm not at all embarassed by breastfeeding, I think it is cool. shows that i have the time and patients to be a breastfeeding women and have the support in the household to do so.
What the public needs is a reality check. Where we take our breastfed babies into public they get hungry like the rest of the babies we just choose to whip out a breast and let them go to town. I cover or at least try to, sometimes she pulls it down and have to recover, but the most you will ever see is a little skin. AND SKIN SCARES PEOPLE!!!!!
2006-08-22 00:37:32 · answer #1 · answered by evrythnnxs 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
By discreet do you mean in a corner, no one behind you, and a blanket covering yourself? If so, I would tell the person that I don't enjoy eating in a restroom and don't expect my child to do something that I don't care for myself. If they have a problem with it, they can look elsewhere or move. Now, if you were not being completely discreet and weren't covering yourself while nursing then I would say, you would have to be living in a cave to not know that that may bother some people and a blanket could solve this issue.
2006-08-22 10:15:41 · answer #2 · answered by disneychick 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I breastfeed my son he is 4 months old in public all of the time. I do it as discreetly as I possibly can, especially when there are kids around. If you do that you have NOTHING to apologize for. Our children need to eat too! we cannot be locked in our homes because some idiot does not understand that it is natural to feed our kids! Next time someone in public asks you to ge in a restroom tell them to take their dinner in the restroom and eat if they can't handle it!
2006-08-22 03:53:22 · answer #3 · answered by rye252000 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
hi there youre joking right ?? no ! well thats just stupid youre giving youre babythe best start in life and this person is telling you to go and nurse somewhere else .........i cant help but think that this person must have been watching you ,and tell anyone if you dont like it then you go else where to feed a baby you are discreat ......what the next thing going to be does a child have to cry ?? this type of person cant have children,and has no mannos or consideration on the future race carry on feeding youre baby as long as you feel happy with it and dont let any one stop you ! xx
2006-08-22 04:22:25 · answer #4 · answered by a parent hows been there !! 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
i would smile sweetly at them and say...."would YOU like to eat YOUR lunch in a place where ppl disposed of bodily waste?"
then I'd say, "thanks for the suggestion....have a nice day."
and then...if they didn't stop bothering me...I'd be a bit louder.
"She/He needs to eat!! what is your problem!?" usually after that, they leave embarrassed. people (esp. MEN or ppl with no children) need to shut up! this is HOW this child gets nourishment and to suggest a BATHROOM is disgusting! if there is any place that the consumption of meals should NOT take place in...it's the bathroom.
if i was discreetly nursing my child in an out of the way spot..and i was completely covered what harm am i causing? and why are ppl so uncomfortable with an act that is natural in the purest since of the word.
sounds like someone like that has ISSUES!
*peace*
2006-08-22 04:22:02 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I'd look at them in a pitying, surprised way and say that of course they must know that it's illegal to serve lunch in a public restroom.
Then I'd say that I won't mention anything to anybody, though, if the restroom is their choice of a pleasant place to eat and they want to take their lunch in there.
2006-08-22 05:43:45 · answer #6 · answered by I'maWonderer 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I would say.. Listen lady or sir.. I am dicreetly bf so if you have a problems with it.. YOU go eslewhere, what I'm doing is what every animal in the world does with their baby.. at least I am doing it discreetly.,......so if you don't like it too bad.. and maybe you should consider eating in the bathroom and see how you like it!
2006-08-22 06:54:47 · answer #7 · answered by nknicolek 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
if you were discreet and in the corner I would say "Listen.. what Im doing is natural... I went out of my way to find a quiet discreet area to feed my child and you had to come over here and be rude? You should really find something else to do with your time." People like that should be embarrassed for themselves
2006-08-22 03:51:17 · answer #8 · answered by Jessica 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Tell them to mind their own business. Discretion is key, not because public breastfeeding is wrong, but because there are pervs out there that get off on people doing it. I would tell them to not look at you, or tell them to wait in the rest room til you have finished feeding, you can't feed a baby in a public toilet, it's not hygienic!
2006-08-22 04:11:03 · answer #9 · answered by sparkleythings_4you 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I would discreetly tell them to get stuffed
you are performing a perfectly natural thing by feeding your child it has absolutely nothing to do with them
2006-08-22 03:49:02 · answer #10 · answered by trvrrhds 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋