Breastfeeding in Public- views?

Breastfeeding, no matter where you are, is normal. There's no way to do that without "taking your breasts out", be you in private or public.

Also, what do you consider a "private place"? Because I can't think of any that I might encounter out shopping, or down the beach, or at the park, etc., that aren't toilets (or changing rooms! )

breastfeeding bringin on an anxiety attack??

women can breastfeed anywhere they want, no legal restrictions..

Wtf? Anxiety disorders are the problem of the person with the anxiety disorder, not the hungry infant. We can't all live our lives catering for people with anxiety disorders.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article4139093.ece

According to that article, currently (or until the law is passed) women can face charged under public indecancy laws.

Breast feeding in public has been a legal right in scotland for the last four years but not here.

read the post. she said "i cant understand why people would have a problem. its just small minded" and i was giving her the reason why, some people might be uncomfortable with it, they cant help that fact.

Men get off on tits, they're sex organs! It is normal, regardless of whether a baby's clutching its mother! That's why i wouldn't breastfeed publicly!.. Or anyone else not a fecking attention seeking slut

I don't think the ones doing it in public are the ones sticking to a schedule. They are doing it because they have to. Because their baby needs to eat. I don't think you can just make a newborn feed if it doesn't want to.

It doesn't matter either way. If the baby needs feeding, for whatever reason, it needs feeding.

read the post. she said "i cant understand why people would have a problem. its just small minded" and i was giving her the reason why, some people might be uncomfortable with it, they cant help that fact.

I'd consider a "private" place to be anywhere where other people aren't going to be able to see you (unless they try to deliberately). So you might use your car. Or in a lot of shops which sell children's clothes, like mothercare, there are breastfeeding rooms available. A lot of mothers also feed the child breast milk using a bottle. At the beach or park, there probably won't be much available, although in a park, it's not usually that difficult to find an area with nobody around.

if i remember right, if a woman 'feels the need' to breastfeed (some women can get heavy and painful breasts with too much milk) then they're encouraged to breastfeed whether the child wants it or not..i think newborn children don't know they're hungry...and many feed for a good hour at first, Unfortunately a situation like you've put has never existed....babies want food when they want food..end of.

Thats disgusting, an awful approach and simply doesn't surprise me why many lower-class and uninformed women choose not to breastfeed because of this taboo

If the baby needs feeding, it needs feeding, true. But it isn't true that every single woman who breastfeeds in public is doing it because their baby is crying of hunger at the time. There are some who just do it "because it's lunchtime" or something. And in that case, I don't see why "lunchtime" can't be postponed for a couple of minutes.

Ah, right. But their being uncomfortable isn't actually caused by the anxiety disorder, rather the anxiety attack is caused by them being uncomfortable.

I'm a liberal kind of a gal, but it's effing disgusting.

I'm a liberal kind of a gal, but it's effing disgusting. "It's natural"? So is taking a crap but I don't do it in the middle of Starbucks.

and i'd like to know- as someone who suffers with anxiety, WHY breastfeeding would trigger anxiety attacks

Surely she wasn't more than 5 minutes away from a public toilet though?