If women want to get their breasts out in public, i for one am not going to stop them!

According to the NCT, children should be exclusively breastfed for the first six months of their life, and recommends continuing up to two years or beyond. There's no way my poor mother could have kept up for six months (i was a very hungry child). I was on sandwiches by that point.
Mind you, they also say children under one year shouldn't have cows milk, to which i was introduced at two weeks (gold top, naturally) and i'm still here!

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

Oh right, because when a women becomes a mother, she cannot leave the house anymore, because she must take care of her child and she can't take her child with her because she might have to breastfeed said child, which would upset some people.

Why do people get offended when they see someone breastfeeding their baby? Its not like that woman is randomly flashing her breasts at people. In fact, there is generally nothing to see when someone does it. So why do people care?

It is simply not done in polite society. Which clearly seems to me to end at the Ciffs of Dover. There are rest rooms available in most large stores, airports, and other places specifically for nursing mothers. It does not have to be openly done in a public street. Ok so you have had a baby, congratulations, so do 360,000 other women all over the world every day. You might be the centre of attention within your family circle, but the rest of the world does not revolve around you.

So it revolves around you and because you find it gross or impolite (and how is it impolite) it should not be done?

The women is feeding her baby and otherwise minding her own business.

But alright, say you find it impolite, is that a reason to secretly photograph it, put it online and have people leave nasty comments on her? Yeah, because that is acceptable in a polite society, respond to one perceived impolite action with nasty, impolite and hateful comments online.

+1

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Breast feeding is one extremely simple human natural phenomenon. How an adult human has human right to eat their meal in public place but an infant baby?!

In 99% of Asia every mother breast feed their children in public, even in America breast feeding in public place occurs.

This is typical mammal feeding practice:



The last time I heard europeans also categorized as human mammals not fish category or bird category!





This is what all mammal category do:



Or otherwise europeans must scientifically prove that they belong to something higher category above asians and above africans maybe something heavenly or robotic metallic beings...

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Mandtugai!

Even 99% of your pc hardware or smart phones all made by breast fed in public peoples hands meaning chinese, koreans, japans. If you able to use them then that means no problem.

If you check some early 1900s korean photos most people would simply freak out, because of their southern moist conditions they used to have very freaky dressing custom at that time. google yourselves.

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Mandtugai!

Hi everyone! Hope all are well :)

When a mother cradles her baby, the physical proximity of her arms to the business end of her "lunch on tap" equipment poses a few problems with regards the snuffly protrusion bang in the middle of her baby's face.

Now as we grow up, we learn not to scream our lungs out when we can smell a cream doughnut but can't have it. Until evolution provides us with those manners at birth, a mother has a choice. Sit with a screaming baby (in my case - for four hours stuck on a bus due to an accident ahead) or shut the sucky bit beneath the aforementioned protrusion up by giving it discreet access to what had set off it's hunger pangs in the first place. I didn't poll the rest of the passengers, but I think they preferred the occasional piggy grunt to the racket that preceded it. It also saved my baby from several day's of extremely uncomfortable colic and me from being further exhausted by dealing with it.

Lobbing both breasts out to catch a breeze whilst only one is needed at a time, would I imagine raise a few eyebrows from some quarters, but I'm not aware of any mother who does. Men can wander around without a t-shirt on on a hot day without raising an eyebrow... Is that because their nipples have no biological function? Or because they protrude from a flat plane rather than a curved one?

When I see dogs or pigeons etc mating in the park, I tend to look away because to me it is a private act I'd rather not watch. That might be the best way forward if breastfeeding mothers offend. The fact that we are still here on this planet is due to mothers breastfeeding their babies when they are hungry. And babies get hungry at some very inconvenient times. :)

Best wishes all!!!!

I know full well that a particular someone here is going to roast my balls over an open fire, but I don't care, things need to be said.

Yes she is.

There is no need whatsoever for any woman to openly breastfeed her child in public, that is just being totally selfish and antisocial. This is England not some African shanty town. If the child is that young to require breastfeeding then it should be at home being looked after, not being traipsed around in public.

Breastfeeding

So adverts everywhere showing women's breasts for advertising and sexual titillation are fine? But the minute women want to use their breasts for something not to do with men then we have a problem. You don't see the double standard there?

Its a good job you didn't know me when my kids were babies. I breast fed them everywhere..and I mean everywhere.

I breast fed them on the bus, in the street, in restaurants, in work meetings, at home. I breast fed on planes, on trains. I breast fed in the car. I breast fed in the park...and I'd dare anyone to tell me I couldn't feed my child when he was hungry.

What a cruel and ignorant stance to take about a perfectly natural act.

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So adverts everywhere showing women's breasts for advertising and sexual titillation are fine? But the minute women want to use their breasts for something not to do with men then we have a problem. You don't see the double standard there?

Hi Es99

Hope you don't mind me adding a little to the point you made (quoted above)?

The sexualising of women's breasts is predominantly a western phenomenon. Almost every other culture recognises that the purpose of breasts is to deal with one of the consequences of having sex, rather than the reason why you might. More mums reminding us of that fact is to be commended. :)

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oh...and did we say we like humans too? Well we do :)

but I don't care, things need to be said.

Saying toO much, toO Often in Public.

Said 'it'.

Got Cave?

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May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!!

I'm of two minds on this one. Breastfeeding is natural and has demonstrable health benefits for both the baby and the mother. Furthermore, in modern society, it is quite unrealistic to expect the mother to 'stay home with the babies' the way it was done in the way-back-when. In my opinion, Breastfeeding should be allowed in public, within reason.

That said, there are some places in public where it just should not be done. For instance, places where it WILL cause a safety hazard. Such as while driving a car (yes, there was a case a few years ago where a woman was driving her car WHILE breastfeeding her baby). Of course, she got arrested. What would have been so wrong with her pulling her car somewhere off the road to feed baby if baby let her know that he/she was hungry? Stuff like that. Common sense and a bit of discretion about it is all that is needed.

I suppose some supreme feeling few million mostly males in western societies feel breast feeding in public is too much monkey african feeling or monkey asian feeling for a "civilized western polite" society.

But by any means any western society is not civilized enough that I can mention few very freeky bad crimes that occur most of western societies but in asia.

How & why 5 month old human baby cannot eat his or her meal in the restaraunt or bus but every other older human forms eating in public is ok?! What kind of supreme legal institution might how define it?! let's say in terms of human rights field?

I'll add some "tasty" korean old photo for western "delicacy" here, this was not a fact in many of asian countries but strangely in Korea until 1900s: http://pds.exblog.jp/imgc/i=http%253A%252F%252Fpds.exblog.jp%252Fpds%252F1%252F200807%252F14%252F51%252Fa0103951_23544121.jpg

I remember some koreans explaining that during breast feeding period in warm moist situation of korea they must keep cool their breast something, some health thing or something.

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Mandtugai!

The few times I have seen a woman breast feed a baby in public, It wasnt the end of the world. In fact it was done so discrete it was barely noticeable. And it sure beats hearing a baby wailing away.

The US is still in the Victorian ages when it comes to sex and nudity, But I dont read anything about the horrors of breast feeding in public. In fact it is gaining in popularity.

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Anyhow, there is no point flogging a dead horse here, nobody else agrees with me on this issue which I pretty much expected would be the case, so I bow to the majority view that breastfeeding in public is quite acceptable, and I'll leave it there.

I thought that you'd come around to see the light sooner or later. ;-)

Cheers.

I've also seen women change a babies dirty nappy on a train seat in full view of the other passengers, when there was a toilet within a few yards.

Now that i would object to!

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

I've also seen women change a babies dirty nappy on a train seat in full view of the other passengers, when there was a toilet within a few yards.

Now that i would object to!

Now that is a totally different issue to breast feeding and should not be tolerated in any way at all.

Cheers.

And here I thought that our regulars were still on vacation.

1 learns I guess.

Cheers.

A child that needs feeding every couple of hours or a regular nappy change, would be easier to manage at home I would have thought, at least in the early days.

Hi Chris! :) You are absolutely right re the above.

I have seen women with a fairly obviously newborn child on buses and trains, and someone will usually ask how old it is. Often you hear "2 weeks" which to me just seems a bit young for those adventures, and would make the journeys more problematic, but clearly women don't think so.

You're absolutely right again :) however fetching my five year old daughter from school gave me no choice. Fortunately her dad was able to take her in the mornings, but the afternoon school run by bus was mine and started three days after my son was born. Almost put me back in hospital. :/

I'm always happy to dip my toe in the water, and if it gets bitten, I pull it out again!

I commend your bravery :) and I do hope your toe is recovering well! :)

NOW! What should we all argue about next :)

Best wishes, Anniet :)

NOW! What should we all argue about next :)

Argue my good woman?? We don't argue, we have an intelligent and in depth exchange of adult views, upon topical matters of the day, which would naturally concern those of a thinking disposition.

(Oh all right then, my dad's bigger than your dad, nyah !)

You're right... he is :) I couldn't borrow him for a moment could I? No? Alright then. Ahem... what you said :)

Kindest regards and felicitations,

Chris S

Likewise :)