If you are sitting in a restaurant and a woman starts breastfeeding...?

Question

Would you find this natural and beautiful...or would you move to another table?

Answer 1

I wouldn't call breastfeeding in a restaurant beautiful but I wouldn't move tables.

Answer 2

I think that it is the most natural thing in the world to do. I breast fed my son for almost a year. I wish that I could have a little longer, but he weened himself. Some people are discreet about it, like I was, but others will just do it so anyone can see. I believe that it is to each his own, and if you are offended by it, then you can choose to leave the situation.

Answer 3

Unless she slaps her breast out in the middle of your dinner, what business of yours is it that she feed her child the way her body was intended!?

(sorry if that sounded harsh I've had it up to here with law makers and judge mental people telling nursing mothers that there might be something wrong with them doing it in public!)

Answer 4

I wouldn't mind at all as long as she doesn't expose her breast. I have been to the supermarket and have seen  a woman walking down the aisle with her whole breast exposed. Though women have rights to breastfeed in public that was going a bit overboard.

Answer 5

I have been that lady sitting in a restaurant feeding my baby. I always was covered, was discreet, and if people had an issue with it that was them. Feeding your baby is not dirty, it is natural. Now if I see a woman nursing her baby, I usually just look away, or if she looks at me I smile and give her the thumbs up for encouragement.  :)

Answer 6

I find it awesome even if they flop it out. Lol. Honestly, they are feeding their child, it is not sick at all and I think people need to get over that immaturity.

Answer 7

When i was pregnant with my son I went to a friends wedding. In one of the toilets/restrooms another guest was breastfeeding her baby, I found it so amazing and beautiful that I couldn't stop gauping at her!!!

I love breastfeeding my baby and I think if more mothers did breastfeed in public without feeling they had to hide in the toilets it would eventually become a more accepted normal practice, and they wouldn't be a big debate about it.

Answer 8

I'd do nothing...its perfectly natural, adn I've done it myself.

Answer 9

It would be really awkward, but it's something natural. But of course I wouldn't be staring at it the whole time.

Answer 10

It wouldn't bother me at all. It's better to feed the baby than to let it scream.

Loud drunk people and toddlers who crawl on the restaurant floor (actually, the parents who let them crawl) bother me much more.

Answer 11

well, would you like to eat in a dirty bathroom stall, or with a hot stuffy blanket over your head?

Answer 12

its natural, and wouldnt bother me at all, my friend feeds her baby where ever we are, she gets some looks no one has ever said anything. i was never a person who could feed in public, but thats just me.

mothers have a right to feed the babies where ever they are, they can't not feed the baby, people would complain about that to.

i know my partner feels a little uncomfortable when friends/relatives have been feeding, but he wouldnt ever say anything, it not that he feels it wrong, just he doesnt know where to look, i think. he always finds a excuse to go outside!

Answer 13

It does kind of make me uncomforable, but I don't really care...I'll have to do it one day too.

Answer 14

I would move personally. I do think that breastfeeding is beautiful and natural but, I also think it should be discreet in public. I'm sorry but I don't want my child seeing another woman's breast. A woman's breast are also viewed as objects of sexuality. In that sense, I don't think they should be popped out in public.

Answer 15

It's natural. Babies need to eat. I have done it several times myself, modestly of course.

Answer 16

Probably wouldn't notice, would be too busy breastfeeding my own, but if I did notice, I'd think it was natural and beautiful, and great that the child was so easily and quickly comforted in public (and so would my hubby, brothers, mother etc). :)

Answer 17

Being mature and knowing that that's what many women do, I don't do anything.  She's feeding her baby.

I nursed my son when he needed to nurse.

Answer 18

I would find this natural and beautiful.

why wouldn't you?  women have been breastfeeding for thousands/millions of years!!!

Answer 19

as a male I find it natural and normal...wish more mothers would give up processed formulas....but for gods sake not while Im eating! modesty is still key!

Answer 20

Depends on if shes hot or not.

Answer 21

As long as they're somewhat discrete about it - good for them.

Answer 22

I think it would be ok if she wasn't making a scene with it and was covered up.  However I do not agree with those that just give everyone an clear shot of their breast.  Not appropriate and I don't know why they feel the need to be so public with it.  As for me, I am currently trying to get pregnant and I plan on giving breastfeeding a go.  However, I can guarantee I will not do it in public and if I have to do it with others around I will be covered up.  I would excuse myself to go into a restroom or sitting area or my car to do it in private.  Everyone says it helps mother and baby bond so I feel it should be done in private or semi-private areas.

Answer 23

I'd gtfo............lol i dun swing dat wayyyyyy

Answer 24

I would give her a big encouraging smile and continue with my food.

I like to eat natural food, so why shouldn't her baby?

Answer 25

i find that it is just fine women have been doing this for more than ten thousand years so whats so bad about it now? socioty can go s***w it self if they dont like nature and its course

Answer 26

It is very natural and beautiful!   I have done it my self with both of my boys and I plan to do it with the baby I am carrying now!  If you do not like it then don't look.

Answer 27

Feed the baby at home and leave it with a sitter.  You have to sacrifice many things when you decide to have children.  I have to eat too and I don't want to pay good money to sit and watch some woman feed her child.  Why isn't the baby at home anyway at that age?  Doesn't she care about all the germs that are around you everyday ?

Answer 28

It wouldn't bother me at all. Now if she flopped out the whole breast and was making a HUGE scene I'd be a little peeved. But if it was tactfully and discreetly done, I really wouldn't mind at all, babies gotta eat too!