Im nervous about breast feeding in public, has anyone had any problems?
Feeding your first baby in public is always daunting at first as you’re usually a bit clumsy and it can take a bit of manouvering to get the baby attached properly. You will get to be a pro at it though and you’ll instinctively look for discreet places to feed, more so so that baby is in a quieter area rather than hiding yourself away from other people. I always found the mothers/parents room at the shopping centre easy to feed in as its pretty much only mums in there and a lot of them have seperate feeding rooms so you can tuck yourself away and get to it in a nice private and quiet (well quiet sometimes lol) environment. If you can’t get to a private space then using a little blanket thrown over your shoulder and covering the babys head can help with privacy. If you’re somewhere more public I would turn my chair around or look for a corner table in a resturant, that sort of thing. If I was at a party at someones house I might ask to sit in their bedroom and feed or go inside to the l
I’ve done it in the car,on the beach and on a plane.I didn’t get any looks as far as I know I was quite well covered anyway.Most of the time if a shop had a baby feeding room I felt better in there for the privacy because I was a bit shy about it.I got to know where all the best baby feeding rooms where in town and knew where to go.If anyone does look just look right back they have no right to make you feel uncomfortable but hopefully no one will think anything of it.Good luck and what a wonderful fantastic thing to do for your baby!
Not only have I never had a single solitary person react to me breastfeeding in public for the 2 years that I did it, of all my whenever/wherever friends, not a single, solitary one of them had an issue either. Frankly, I think the whole thing is ridiculously overblown. Yes. Occasionally women are confronted by nasty people but it is extremely rare. Pro-breast feeders like to make a big deal out of it to raise public awareness, but all they really manage to do is convince people like yourself that you’re making yourself a target when you’re not. The truth is that most people are not confrontational. They may silently tisk tisk you in their heads and if you run into them online, they may be emboldened by the anonymity and say things they would NEVER have the guts to say in person (see the asshat above, Mr. 2tone), but it’s a very rare person who will actually approach you. The people who are uncomfortable will happily look anywhere BUT at you and all you have to do is focus on your baby
