[sportutegrl]

The only people who have a problem with this is men. I am a private person and do not want to put on a display, but newborns need to be fed every three hours or they will die. When I was flying alone with my infant with a layover at DFW, I timed it so I wouldn't have to nurse on the plane and planned to nurse at DFW during the layover. There was no place to go. In the women's bathroom there are no chairs to sit in and it is tiring to hold the baby and nurse standing up. I tried to sit on a toilet seat in a stall but the auto flush kept going off, wetting my clothes with spray. Finally, I gave up and went to the gate where I tried to nurse in a chair covered up. Some idiot guys kept coming up behind me to "see what was going on". Just thinking about this makes me mad all over again. I wish the guys that have a "problem" with this would just leave us the h*** alone, go away, give us some privacy.

[armymarinemom]

The only people who have a problem with this is men.

I really don't have a problem with feeding in public. I do have a problem with using children in a protest before they are old enough to consent to being part of a protest. There are ways to protest without exploiting infants.

[keats5]

I agree with you. I adopted all my kids, so I never had the breast feeding issue. But when we were planning a church remodeling, the church council men gave me blank stares when I suggested we at least make enough room in the ladies room for a chair. I couldn't help but notice the ladies were asking permission to use the pastor's office (which was the only private place), or sitting on the toilets, to breastfeed. This has to be a pretty tough lifestyle, considering how often babies need to be fed.

Most ladies manage to feed discretely in public by draping a cloth over the exposed breast. It's not a big deal.

[frgoff]

but newborns need to be fed every three hours or they will die.

I call bull****. Newborns can live for several days without food.