Breastfeeding in public

[Paheli00]

Re: Breastfeeding in public

@nnabid

Even if your baby is not comfortable under a cover, you could still find ways of being discrete - cover your boob with the baby’s head during the latch. Once the baby is latched on it’s very easy to be discrete. Bottom line is, I support breastfeeding in public, but I believe it’s important that a woman is discrete about the way she goes about doing so.

^ This! No one is telling women to stop breastfeeding in public. But its not impossible or difficult to do it discretely.

@pkgrl000

I personally always use a cover but am annoyed when people make a big deal out of these things.

You know what I think is funny? Those of you here who don’t see anything wrong with a women breastfeeding in public without using a cover or being discrete…when it comes to YOU feeding your baby, you find a way to be discrete or use a cover. Seriously…is there ANY woman here who doesn’t use a cover or discretion when exposing her breasts in public?

As for the point on 10 ft. of snow…well not every city has that as an issue does it? I’m in Texas and I assure you that snow is not a problem here. And I never suggested women go inside a bathroom. Whether it’s using a cloth cover, finding a private area by asking a manager at whatever location you’re in, going to the car, find a quite/isolated area…whatever… the point is that these women do have options to breastfeed in a discrete manner. The options may be not “perfect” but they are reasonable. If women CHOOSE not to take a reasonable option to be discrete or cover up…that’s fine. But let’s not pretend that women don’t have any other choices and are forced to expose their breasts to everyone around them.