Breastfeeding In Public, Whats Your Views?

[piggynose]

I ask, because a young woman is breastfeeding her 2 year old son now in my local cafe.

[pastafreak]

@retrochic...when I said "starve" I referred to a baby...which most would interpret as meaning within the usual age range for breastfeeding. Not a toddler.

[jomifl]

This is such a popular issue that AB should have a mother and ...err toddler section.

[whiskeryron]

Just as a matter of interest why do men have nipples ( & even breasts in some cases) ?

[ummmm]

Breast are just fat.

We all started off genderless.

[Canary42]

That's just what I said ummmm.

[jim360]

So we know when it's time to put on a jumper.*

More seriously, it's because men are "half-woman", genetically, and indeed all embryos start off as female in the womb, before the male Y chromosome starts to kick in.

*(Credit for this joke goes to some random guy commenting in the Guardian.)

[Mamyalynne]

Here you go WR

http://www.livescience.com/32467-why-do-men-have-nipples.html

[whiskeryron]

Thanks Mamy very interesting. Ron.

[piggynose]

wow what a result!!! i didn´t realise this was a popular topic.
as most abers know every time i post something i´m usually lucky if i go beyond 12 answers. What was she like, i can say without any exaggeration she was model material. and that kid had an appetite, he was still drinking(yes arent i polite) his moms milk after 30 mins, and he must´ve been about 2 1/2 yrs old

[Baldric]

Some folks do over do it tbh.

https://sp.yimg.com/xj/th?id=OIP.M954c7d6c623c5734b280b0f6cb5b954do0&pid=15.1&P=0&w=285&h=161

[piggynose]

one more thing to be said about this contentious issue. the lady in question was fairly discreet, she was sitting with her back to most other customers, i just happen to be in my usual seat where i habitually sit, she might have been there longer than i thought, as i was spending ages writing a long email to a friend, and when i finished i looked away from the screen and got this almost literally in my face, she was that close, yes i felt a right t!t staring at her. no she wasn´t completely topless, yes she was south american and fairly pretty, chatting to her partner at the same time as she was feeding her child, it looked as if she´d done it many times before because she looked so natural, and solved the problem of the wailing bawling child.

[ummmm]

How did you know the age of the child because the child seems to have aged 6 months...

[piggynose]

sorry for misleading you ummmm, it wasn´t my intention, it was an educated guess, the child was too big to be cradled, or held in his moms arms, he had to sit on his moms lap, he had to be between 2 to 2 1/2, i´m not sure i could have the nerve to ask the mom if i see her again this week or any other week.

[Retrochic]

piggy - babies can sit up unaided at around 8 months old.....

[hc4361]

Between 4 and 7 months, usually

[Retrochic]

my 4 must have been lazy baskets lol!

[Ellipsis]

No problem at all with young babies being breastfed in public.

After a baby has been weaned, though, there's no need for it as the parent has alternative choices for feeding their child.

You have to draw a line somewhere (or you end up in David Walliams' "Bitty" scenario) and weaning seems to be the appropriate place to draw it.

But I suppose there isn't a law against doing it much later ...

[hc4361]

Ellipsis, the World Health Organisation recommends breastfeeding until the age of two at least.

[Retrochic]

obviously the W.H.O must have cardboard nipples.

[ummmm]

When mine were toddlers they were having a feed in the morning and bedtime....and maybe more if they were ill or had hurt themselves..

If we went to a cafe they drank from their sippy cups.