02-12-2014 9:50 PM
What is your opinion on women that breast feed their babies in public? Is it right or should it be done discreedly?
04-12-2014 6:16 PM
Oh... large intake of breath
04-12-2014 7:33 PM
04-12-2014 8:08 PM
04-12-2014 8:23 PM
You may want to re-read some of the content in the post you wrote on the 9/04/13 about threads morphing into bullying Kiss My Pixel. For some reason my link does not work or I would link it here. Would someone care to link it?
We do not all share your views.
04-12-2014 8:44 PM
04-12-2014 9:29 PM
I had a very hard time finding that thread, Calibra, it was so very old but thank you for reminding us. (I also couldn't link it).
You're quite right - Frederick's post could most certainly be described as bullying and actually, mysoginistic, but I won't hold it against him. Thanks for the sentiment, thought
I'm very surprised someone hasn't reported it. I won't as I don't agree with reporting and am more than happy for it to stay, so everyone can read it and form their own opinions.
I know not everyone will agree with my views - of course they won't, no-one has to. Others do, however. This is what debate is all about, differing views. Just join in with what you think.
04-12-2014 9:48 PM - edited 04-12-2014 9:51 PM
04-12-2014 9:51 PM
The subject about breast feeding. Its a great taboo it will run and run, everyone has their different ideas about the subject.
05-12-2014 3:01 AM
Yes it is a taboo subject and probably always will be.
My husband is older than Fred and doesn't turn a hair when he sees a mother breastfeeding in public, but that's because he's had me to educate him. My father too, an elderly man, wouldn't be bothered either - when my son was born (his first grandchild) - he asked, when I went to feed ;'do you want me to leave the room?' - I replied no and that there was nothing to be embarrassed about.
But we are not all the same and I doubt very much that Fred is a misogynist (the correct spelling) - he is of another generation, almost another world now, boarding school educated (and not co-ed I would assume), close to his father and worked in a male dominated environment. He is just well......Fred. Perhaps he has not had someone, as my husband and father did, to educate him in these matters.
He has spoken on this board with great affection towards his wife and daughter - hardly the sign of a misogynist.
Just saying. I always try to see both sides of the argument, and, yes, we are all entitled to our views. Here's to happy endings.
05-12-2014 7:11 AM
05-12-2014 8:29 AM
I fed anywhere and everywhere with my first. Second tended to be at home due to feeding toddler as well. Nobody ever complained though did get some offers one might not have expected - like an offer to put sugar in my coffee from a large builder type and a traffic warden who said I could stay parked on his double yellows as long as I liked(central London). I found that if you fed with confidence very few people bothered and if they did I just told THEM to go eat in the toilets.
05-12-2014 8:40 AM
05-12-2014 9:42 AM
@rainydaywoman11 wrote:Yes it is a taboo subject and probably always will be.
Never viewed it this way myself; just a woman feeding her baby, nothing more and nothing less and certainly not taboo!
05-12-2014 9:45 AM
@5129frederick wrote:We all know a mother's milk is the right temperature and chemical makeup, but if you know you're going to be in a public place near a baby's feeding time, what the hell is wrong with feeding it from a bottle?! Problem solved! For the record, not all babies take to breast feeding.
For the record, breast milk can be served from a bottle also; I know because my wife made sure I didn't have a get-out clause on the early hours feeds.
05-12-2014 10:31 AM
In the run of things I think there are many other things that cause offence in public, like spitting on the ground, mobiles going off when you are eating in a restaurant, sat in a cinema or theatre etc., cars that park on the pavement so you have to walk around on the road, motorised scooters that drive on the pavement at 30 miles and hour, need I go on, because I can you know.
Breast feeding is natural, whilst it doesn't offend me it does offend others we are all different and react to things differently, in the past children were seen and not heard and men definitely had nothing to do with the rearing of children, things are different now and like most things we should respect others views, this country is after all a democracy and has the freedom of having free speech and I for one am glad of that.
There are men and women who will take extreme measures to make a point some rightly so. Some will take offence and some will applaud.
Wouldn't it be a boring and quieter world if we all agreed.
05-12-2014 11:51 AM
@ed_blackadder_1 wrote:In the run of things I think there are many other things that cause offence in public, like spitting on the ground, mobiles going off when you are eating in a restaurant, sat in a cinema or theatre etc., cars that park on the pavement so you have to walk around on the road, motorised scooters that drive on the pavement at 30 miles and hour, need I go on, because I can you know.
Breast feeding is natural, whilst it doesn't offend me it does offend others we are all different and react to things differently, in the past children were seen and not heard and men definitely had nothing to do with the rearing of children, things are different now and like most things we should respect others views, this country is after all a democracy and has the freedom of having free speech and I for one am glad of that.
There are men and women who will take extreme measures to make a point some rightly so. Some will take offence and some will applaud.
Wouldn't it be a boring and quieter world if we all agreed.
The trouble with this is if we recognise that we're not all going to agree and therefore it's not worth arguing, then there is no discussion and therefore no discussion board. Disagreement is good!
05-12-2014 11:56 AM
05-12-2014 11:58 AM
It should never become personal!
05-12-2014 11:59 AM
I see it as an education!
05-12-2014 12:18 PM
Can remember many years ago Lesley Garrett on a chat show being asked whether she felt breast or bottle feeding was preferable
When she said breast was asked why !!
Her response was "cos it comes in such cute containers and the cat cant get at it "--cant remember who the interviewer was !!