Posted on 08/19/2014 4:47:48 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Dozens of mothers staged a nurse-in at an Oregon restaurant in protest on Sunday after a manager asked one woman to cover up while she nursed her baby.
Erin Klein said a manager at the Ram Restaurant in Happy Valley asked her to cover up as she nursed her 11-month-old, because other customers had apparently complained....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Same thing happened at one of the big malls down in Miami Florida. Someone was asked to be discrete....and all hell broke loose.
Whiner City.
You’re being udderly ridiculous.
Ah yes, the mammary mafia. Don’t you dare suggest that the sight of a woman breastfeeding her child in public is in any way vulgar or you’ll be reminded what a beautifully maternal and nurturing thing it is .. and don’t you forget it, you gynophobic pig!
Dear people with mammary glands. It is no more natural and appropriate for you to wave you bare boobs around in public because a baby is hungry, than it is for me to wave my penis around because I have to pee. If I had to pee in public, I would turn my back and face a tree or bush.
There is an article of clothing that serves the nursing mother quite well, it is called a shawl. You can nurse your baby anywhere, as my wife did, and not be putting on a show at the same time. It can be thin and light as silk.
There is nothing magical that makes a boob less of a boob when you are nursing with it. If you wouldn’t put them on display when you aren’t nursing, then don’t put them on display when you are nursing.
IMHO, there is a type of woman who is an attention hound and turns weddings and motherhood into a theatrical productions. I’ve never heard of anyone having an issue with a modest woman who was nursing a baby.
I suspect that these are the same mothers who think it appropriate to change their baby’s dirty diapers in the middle of restaurants.
They do it to get attention but if you look, they get mad.
Somewhat related ...
Using restaurant table to change diaper is a real etiquette no-no
Last week, a pizza joint in Spring ordered a mother and her three children to leave after the woman changed her 4-month-old baby's poopy diaper at their table.
The woman said she had no option because the restaurant's ladies room didn't have a changing table and she "didn't want to take everyone back to the minivan to do the diaper change."
Ah, poor baby … and I mean the mother.
It made national news.
Olivia Wilde recently did this.
Olivia Wilde’s Breastfeeding Photo Causes a Stir
https://www.yahoo.com/health/olivia-wildes-breastfeeding-photo-causes-a-stir-93893024387.html
ROFLMAO!
Discreteness is the key. My wife nursed all 7 of our children and simply covered up when it was necessary and we were in a public place. Little baby blanket was all it took. From 1983 through 2004. Never once had a complaint, but then she never showed anything. And there were plenty of restaurants, parks, planes and other inconvenient public places.
There are so many ways to nurse discreetly that to show your breast, you have to be trying to! I am completely in favor of breastfeeding, but not displaying breasts. Even away from home. I nursed in the Baltimore aquarium, the Smithsonian, the grocery store....No one ever knew!
I think the rule for nursing in restaurants is “no tips”.
Aaaaaaaaaaah! Good one!
Why does everyone have to protest something? Can't they just (wait for it) go with the flow? badumbum ting.
Something can be perfectly legal, natural, healthy, and still be very impolite around the dinner table. I can think of quite a number of things that fall into that general classification.
If I were a bliss-ninny drama queen fighting for the right to be inconsiderate and gross without eliciting honest criticism I’m sure I could snag some headlines by forcibly exposing diners in public to some of my natural rights.
Heifers with a cause. As if there isn’t enough cultural disintegration happening already, we get these obstinate young “heroes” tossing a lactose laden mammary across the folds of their ashen-white, postpartum guts while the rest of the properly clothed patrons try to enjoy an expensive meal. That’s great.
I’m a former breastfeeding Mom...
Cover up that boob you boob !!!!
and don’t feed your baby in public when you don’t have too..
arrange your day so that you are home or in private ...
Actually, I think it should have been criminalized for deliberatly cntaminating a food area. Can you imagine what would happen if a food worker stuck his hand in poop and then made your lunch?
I agree with you trebb. Breasts feed babies. I’m sorry if people are offended by a mother breastfeeding her baby in public...then maybe they should leave.
Seriously, we are a very modest family, but breastfeeding is THE most important thing you can do for your child. If we are out to dinner and my grandson needs to eat, my daughter is NOT going to go sit in a dirty bathroom stall to feed him. So she feeds him at the table. My grandson will pull off the blanket every time she puts it up. People see less of her breast when she is feeding him then they see from the cheerleaders when they watch Monday Night Football.
I raised my daughters very modest, no bikinis, shorts to their knees, no belly shirts, etc. My daughters still dress that way. Breast feeding in public is not about not being modest, it’s about using the breast for what GOD DESIGNED THEM FOR!
Okay, just my two cents. This topic makes me crazy.
NO OUTSIDE FOOD.
Of course, mothers now days wouldn’t DREAM of staying home to care for their children... they’re all over the place... I have even seen young moms out shopping with what look to be newborns babies... What ? You can’t stay home even a couple weeks?
Wow. The horrors you must have to dealt with in seeing newborns in public. Does it (seeing a newborn baby) give you nightmares? Do you suffer from PTSD from seeing a newborn in public?
Are you also of the opinion that pregnant women should confine themselves at home and out of the public once they start showing as used to be the norm way back when? And how old should a baby be before he or she should be taken out of the home for the first time? 4 weeks? Six months? A year? Not before they are eating solid foods and or potty trained, not before they are able to engage adults in polite conversation?
People used to believe that newborns were so fragile and so prone to exposure to picking up diseases that they were confined at home along with their moms for several months after birth. I remember a time when even family members and family friends were discouraged from coming to visit the new parents in those first few weeks and even from holding the newborn except in very “sterile conditions”.
But newborns, excepting for those who have certain medical conditions at birth or those who are preemies, in or just coming out of a NICU, actually have a very strong immune system, especially if their mother breastfeeds. And we used to think that keeping a newborn in an overly warm, dark, quiet room and, overly bundled up and away from all noise and all unnecessary stimulus and contact with anyone other than mom and dad for those first few weeks was a good thing. But stimulus and contact with other family members, even exposure to fresh air, even cold and heat, and sunshine has been proven to be good for newborn babies. There is no reason, excepting for those babies with compromised immune systems, that they should not be taken on shopping trips with mom. Personally I love seeing those amazing and beautiful newborns with their moms out in public. It does my heart good to see a stay at home mom going out in public while she is caring for her baby rather than giving her baby’s care over to strangers in a day care center while she goes to work.
I would also ask you if you think that menstruating women also confine themselves for 7 days and away from all men, not sit in places that men might sit until they are “clean” again and on the 8th day make a sacrifice of “two turtles, or two young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for her before the LORD for the issue of her uncleanness.” (Leviticus 15:19-30)? Of course back in the days of Leviticus, there probably weren’t any such thing as sanitary napkins and tampons so there were some very good reasons for those rules back when, except for the idea that a woman’s menstruation is sinful…..
Breastfeeding is not a “problem” that needs to be solved or dealt with like some sort of disease or as some sort of immoral act just because it involves “boobs” that others need to be shielded from just because some men only see boobs as a sexual organ. It is a perfectly natural and IMO a beautiful thing for a mother to breastfeed her baby. It is good for the baby and good for the mother, both emotionally and physically.
But I do agree that women who are breast feeding in public can and should be discrete about it.
Women who breastfeed their babies, even in public are doing nothing wrong IMO as long as they are not whipping out their bare boobs for all and everyone to see, without any sense of discretion and decorum or common decency and not trying to make a spectacle of themselves and their babies as some sort of political or feminist statement. But most of the breastfeeding mom’s I’ve known don’t fall into that category.
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