[email protected]

Oh my!!
When I was breatfeeding Nicholas I nursed in Walmart, the Mall, the grocery
store you name it. For the first 6 months Nicholas was in sling/pouch and I
nursed from that. Heck he nursed nonstop there is no way I would have been
able to leave my home if I couldn't nurse in public. Bathrooms are no place
for a baby anyway yuck! I wonder if that man had a wife or a child for that
matter.

Laura
Maine

>
> Just last month I was at the Detroit Institute of Art and sat down in a
> gallery to nurse my DD. Ironically, we were facing an enormous painting
> of Venus and her attendants (a total of 5 topless women larger than
> life!) when the docent came over and told me "we have places where you
> can do that". I said, "Oh, where? In the bathroom?" As soon as his
> head started nodding both myself and my DH lit into him about my right
> to breastfeed and the Michigan laws.
>
> I also made sure to point out that the huge painting smack dab in front
> of us had topless women that people were paying to get in to see, but
> here I am with no skin showing while feeding my baby and I'm
> "indecent"???? He retreated real quick and it was funny to see him
> backpedal. LOL
>
> TreeGoddess
>



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Backstrom kelli

I am shocked by this! Ugh, can you believe that we still live in a society that only views women's breasts sexually! With my first two I was really hesitant to nurse out in public, always shy and trying to hide everything. With Nora (baby #3, who is 5 months now) I was three weeks postpartum shopping three days before Xmas at a major mall in Massachusetts. I had no sling and was totally exposed and I didn't care. Even dh was like, "Ah, honey do you want to move to a more private bench:) " but I didnt care, here I was with my new baby feeding her and loving her and life was good! Kelli

HMSL2@... wrote:Oh my!!
When I was breatfeeding Nicholas I nursed in Walmart, the Mall, the grocery
store you name it. For the first 6 months Nicholas was in sling/pouch and I
nursed from that. Heck he nursed nonstop there is no way I would have been
able to leave my home if I couldn't nurse in public. Bathrooms are no place
for a baby anyway yuck! I wonder if that man had a wife or a child for that
matter.

Laura
Maine

>
> Just last month I was at the Detroit Institute of Art and sat down in a
> gallery to nurse my DD. Ironically, we were facing an enormous painting
> of Venus and her attendants (a total of 5 topless women larger than
> life!) when the docent came over and told me "we have places where you
> can do that". I said, "Oh, where? In the bathroom?" As soon as his
> head started nodding both myself and my DH lit into him about my right
> to breastfeed and the Michigan laws.
>
> I also made sure to point out that the huge painting smack dab in front
> of us had topless women that people were paying to get in to see, but
> here I am with no skin showing while feeding my baby and I'm
> "indecent"???? He retreated real quick and it was funny to see him
> backpedal. LOL
>
> TreeGoddess
>



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Heidi

What's obnoxious is when a mother is being discreet, with a nursing
blouse or a blanket over the baby, nothing exposed. With one of those
side-opening nursing blouses, you have to look twice to see that a
baby is nursing. And yet, the sideways glances and underbreath
mutterings.

HeidC who had a couple of incidents in her breast feeding days


--- In [email protected], "treegoddess@c..."
<treegoddess@c...> wrote:
> I must say that this museum incident was the only time I've ever
been
> approached negatively in regard to breastfeeding in public. I've
been
> nursing for four years now (one child after another;) and had never
had
> one of these experiences. I was actually hoping it would happen
one day
> just so I could give some close-minded person a piece of my mind.
LOL
>
> TreeGoddess

kbolden

>>>>HeidC who had a couple of incidents in her breast feeding days<<<

My fave was on a 14 hour flight from Italy... my ds was 13 months old and at that stage where he wanted to stand up and nurse, flip over and nurse, climb and nurse :-p The woman in the next row up kept turning around and staring and frowning. She finally got smacked by the beverage cart -- her reward for not paying attention to her own business!


Kay

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[email protected]

In a message dated 4/28/03 6:29:19 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
treegoddess@... writes:

> I must say that this museum incident was the only time I've ever been
> approached negatively in regard to breastfeeding in public. I've been
> nursing for four years now (one child after another;)

I have been breastfeeding one child, the other or both for almost 9 years
now. I have never had a negative reaction. Not even when we were flying
home from Germany and my 3 year old and 6 month old were tandem
nursing/sleeping on and off on the plane. Everyone thought it was soooo
cute. Although maybe they were just glad that my boys weren't screaming.
LOL.
Pam G.


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[email protected]

In a message dated 4/28/2003 11:27:22 AM Eastern Standard Time,
kbolden@... writes:

> My fave was on a 14 hour flight from Italy... my ds was 13 months old and at
> that stage where he wanted to stand up and nurse, flip over and nurse,
> climb and nurse :-p The woman in the next row up kept turning around and
> staring and frowning. She finally got smacked by the beverage cart -- her
> reward for not paying attention to her own business!
>
>
> Kay
>

THAT'S TOO FUNNY!
LOL

Laura
Maine


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