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.
The issue is NOT breastfeeding, the issue is doing so modestly.
Trebb said “we can’t expect Moms to have their every action planned out so it never occurs in public”
Really? As the husband of the mother of four breast fed kids, I can assure you that we never went out without a modesty blanket and/or “burp” cloth. Whether bottle or breast fed, infants need to be “burped”. After the first time one “spits-up” on your shoulder, even clueless dads learn to ensure that a burp cloth is available & used.
The same applies to a breast feeding modesty blanket.
(BTW, I’ve lived a good deal of time in developing countries where babies are openly breast-fed in public. The mothers usually recognize when people from outside their culture are disturbed or overly curious about their breast feeding and the mothers cover accordingly. No such wisdom in this case)