Why would it be okayy, but "not where people eat?" I mean, seriously? You go into a restraunt and see someone stuffing their face, food falling out of their mouth as they talk, spewing their drink across the table cause they laughed, and leaving their poor waitress a mess a toddler would be proud of, and you have the ability to LOOK AWAY! Why can't you just look away when a baby is silently enjoying their lunch? If those who can use a fork, but choose not to can eat in public so can my baby. And it's not like you can even see anything! Some of us mama's have the decency to cover up. Where as a lot of grown people don't have the decency to cover their mouths when eating and talking. Personally, it's more gross to see a grown (wo)man with no manners eating than it is beautiful to see a mother doing one of the most natural best things for her baby.

I don't have a problem with a woman breastfeeding her baby in public. When babies are hungry, they're hungry and can become quite angry lil buggers, why deny them their food? Just seems weird to me to deny them that.

It's never really bothered me since it has to be done and I don't have to look at it.

I think it's a bit inappropriate when people do it in eating establishments, but less so if they're considerate enough to cover everything with a blanket. Personally I'd rather that squawking children weren't let out in public at all though.

Doesn't bother me at all. It's natural and I hate how breasts are so overly sexualized. Boobs can be sexy but they also feed babies, that is their original intended purpose.

I have no problem with it

it doesn't bother me at all. Your child does have to eat. As long as they are covered up i don't see anything wrong.

It doesn't bother me.

It doesn't bother me. Babies need to be feed too. Also, we must be the only specie to eroticize mammal glands(or whatever you english people call them)... I prefer seeing babies that get a natural milk made especially for them than hungry babies, or babies that get manmade formula. I wasn't breastfed for medical reasons, and my immune system is very weak. I believe breastfeeding is important.

Doesn't bother me. Then again if every female walked around topless, that wouldn't bother me either.

I'm not sure why this disgusts anyone. It doesn't bother me either way.

I have no problem with it. I breastfed my child for over a year and have been lucky enough to not have any problems with people. I usually used a cover when I went out.

I don't care, but the Time magazine article with the toddler sucking on the nipple was disturbing. After the child can walk no more breastfeeding---gross.

There is far too much body shame in the world as it is. Breast-feeding is beautiful and natural and far from disgusting. There is no reason for it to be considered disgusting. I'm not a mother, but if I was one, I would nurse in public. I would cover up, yes, but why? A body is a body. There is nothing dirty about it. Nothing shameful about it. I might cover up out of courtesy, but that doesn't mean that I think I should (again, in the hypothetical mother situation).

I'm completely for any woman that wants to stand up for her right to be a mother. I absolutely cannot wrap my head around what's considered bad about caring for your child.

part of it might be the desire to take moms down a peg. for some reason some people use "mom" as a way of demonstrating their superiority. They created life, which is a "miracle" and totally not just sperm in vagina, therefore they should be able to do whatever with their kids, wherever, without question. On facebook the new moms constantly post things not only about parenting, but how they KNOW EVERYTHING about parenting and if you don't believe them you're wrong. Breastfeeding could be a proxy for simply opposing pushy moms.

i do not have a problem with it and think if someone does they can look the other way then

I have no issues with breastfeeding woman should be able to feed their children where ever and when ever the need arises. Why should an infant be forced to eat at a later date or location than anyone else. I nursed both my children. My first couldn't after a few weeks due to issues but my second nursed until just a couple months ago( making him almost 3 1/2) I nursed him when he was hungry regardless of stares or comments. I tried to keep covered but one I am very large chested so being completely covered was difficult and secondly he would not allow a blanket or cover what so ever so we dealt with it and if someone had an issue that was exactly that their issue. Children are people to and breast feeding is what are breasts were created for. Some woman cant nurse as I couldn't with my eldest some children have a difficult time with it but at the end of it breasts were not created for sexual enjoyment they were created for nourishing our young. So after that long winded comment ( sorry its a hot topic with me) lol I'm perfectly fine with breastfeeding anywhere it doesn't bother me

Hell no it doesn't offend me. Babies gotta eat, too!

Doesn't bother me a bit. It's amazing some of us Americans be so fearful of nudity even if it is just feeding their baby.

The orignator of this thread has seen the light. She understood, shortly after first posting, the necessity for women to breastfeed and actually pretty much retracted her original post.

I'm a Lactation Consultant and the mother of three breastfed-into -toddlerhood children. So, breastfeeding is very important to myself and my children.

I think people get upset when they don't understand the way breastfeeding works (a lot of people think breast fed babies only need to nurse every 4 hours and that simply doesn't work for about 97% of babies) or they don't know why women know why they want to do it. OR they didn't breastfeed or their mother didn't and some feel bad. (And they shouldn't, people make their choices and/or sometimes things don't work out. As long as they tried their damnedest and got all the help they possibly could to succeed, I have no issue with that.)

I think ignorance is the biggest stumbling block to accepting breastfeeding. People think it's for "poor people" (which is ridiculous, it is known that the more education a woman has the more likely she is to breastfeed and the longer she is to allow unfettered access to the breast) or "it's nasty" (I can't wrap my head around that one at all. It's a baby and it's what G*d intended for them!)or they don't want to "ruin" their bodies (which is ridiculous, as any damage done to the elastic structure of the breast is done during pregnancy and aging, NOT during breast feeding) if people LEARN why others breastfeed, most rational people learn to accept it when others do it.

I always preferred to breasted feed with a small blanket or Shaw as a cover up. I do feel that it is incredibility rude to kick someone out of a store if choose to do so. I think a lot of this stems from a cultural view that breasted are first and foremost sex-objects, when in fact they are glorified udders.

Doesn't really bother me. I don't really pay attention to it.

It's fine and natural I don't know why people get their panties all in a bunch about it