What are your thoughts on breast feeding in public?

Breastfeeding provides a host of benefits to an infant and mother. In today's world, it's hardly possible for a woman to remain home 24 hours a day. A newborn can eat as often as every two hours--more if going through a growth spurt.

A simple trip to the mall to buy a few things can easily require a nursing mom to feed her baby two or more times. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 43 states have laws that protect a woman's right to feed her baby in any public or private location. ncsl.org/default.aspx?tabid=14389 As for alternatives, nursing lounges and stations are nice, but they are not always the best option.

If a mother lives in a community with a large population of families, she may find the nursing area already full when she gets there. If she has older children with her, there may not be enough room to reasonably contain them. Pumping and bottle feeding are certainly options, however, bottle feeding can lead to nipple confusion or a preference for bottles with can get in the way of breastfeeding.

breastfeeding.com/all_about/all_about_co... While some people might consider public nursing tantamount to indecency, most women are not "letting it all hang out" or being "in your face" with breastfeeding. I have known several mothers who could latch a baby onto a breast without anyone being the wiser. I nursed all five of my babies and had several occasions in which people had whole conversations with me without even knowing I was feeding the baby in my arms.

The attitude of shame which surrounds public breastfeeding is culturally based. The more women nurse in public, the more that will change.

A woman has a right to breastfeed anywhere she has a right to be. Anybody that takes offense to that is probably the sort of person who, about 50 years ago, would take offense to the someone of a different color eating at the same counter as them.

The only thing I think is wrong with breastfeeding in public is you have to watch out for the nuts out there. Look at your surroundings and make sure you are safe before you do it.

I personally think that there are alternatives to breast feeding in public. From the point of view of a parent of an older child...I don't feel right about my 13 year old son sitting across the bus from a woman with her breast hanging out. That just isn't appropriate.It would be like baring the child's bottom and changing them right there.

However, I have seen women that use discretion and either cover themselves and the child with a blanket or clothe, that is more appropriate than simply "whipping it out". It's less about it being offensive, and more about dignity and respect for others. Personally I would be to embarrassed to breastfeed in public.

I would have either used a breast pump and bottle, or removed myself from the public eye, fed the baby, and returned. As parents we all experience times of "discrimination". It's to be expected...whether it's a crying baby in the middle of the theater or shopping center.

Or areas where strollers aren't always accommodated.

What offends me is that people will kick and scream about breastfeeding, but a photograph of a woman in a tiny, skimpy little bikini with everything but her nipples hanging out can be used to sell cars, toothpaste, etc. , and the billboards, magazine ads, whatever, don't bother anyone. If a woman's body is for marketing, then apparently it can be naked anywhere. If, however, she's feeding her child, then it's "obscene.

" I believe women should be able to breastfeed wherever they want. Most people have the common sense to use a drape, and that's a perfectly reasonable request to make of mothers. Babies need to eat, and that's the safest and most nutritious food for them.

If places like malls provided nursing areas (NOT unsanitary bathrooms, but actual nursing areas) I think a lot of women would use them. Either way, though, it's a normal thing that people didn't used to be so hung up on. Frankly, I think everyone needs to get the hell over it.

It's a breast. It's not a bomb.It's not a guy humping a goat. It's a human body part doing what it is intended to do.

It's a baby eating. That's the 100% only reason that body part exists. We don't lose our minds when someone blows their nose in public, and that's far less sanitary than breastfeeding.

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