Breast feeding in public Buildings

[Gromit]

Some councils ban breast feeding in public buildings such as reception areas and libraries.

Do you agree with banning or is it natural?

[RATTER15]

I really cant see a Muslim woman get one out in public!

[Gromit]

Daily Mail today

// Breast-feeding mother 'told to leave council headquarters because she would offend Muslim visitors'

http://www.dailymail....rs.html#ixzz1Rz8g65GY //

[brionon]

Anybody against public Breast feeding is a Fool !

[keyplus90]

Breast feeding is the most natural act but mothers should make an effort to keep it to just a natural act between mother and child. If mother covers up then it is better for child because most of the infants feel more relaxed and fall asleep. However if a woman purposly doing multi tasking with showing off to others around then few people do find it offending. Although same people may not find it offending when it comes to few grown-ups behaving badly in public.

[joggerjayne]

It's perfectly natural.

Although my boyfriend is quite tall, so he has to kneel on the floor.

[RATTER15]

jj, you are being naughty, behave!! :-)

[keyplus90]

Ratter - Where did religion come into this. Or you have to link everything with religion as somewhere in your subconscious you always find religion challenging your belief?
As for your comment about Muslim woman, let me tell you one more thing (although it will not make any difference to you). Islam makes it obligatory for mother to breast feed her child for two years. And Muslims women do breast feed their kids as much as they can if not two years. But you are right that they do not take it out in public as they do the way almost all of the posters have mentioned here including yourself. Discretely………….

[Quassia]

^ How innapropriate!

[PurplePolkadot]

religious people? well surely the natural method of mother feeding baby should be ok with them? didnt god create us the way we are? hence giving mothers natural milk? or have i missed summat?

[PurplePolkadot]

lol bonniemary....i think some people mix the natural act of breastfeeding up with some kind of sexual thing, maybe some need to grow up...and see it for what it is, and those who flaunt it just get on with it, often fuss about nothing.

[chelle7272]

In our health centre, in the room where the breastfeeding group meets, they had some sketches of breastfeeding mothers - discreet and tasteful in most peoples opinion, but some muslim patients did request these be taken down as they were offended by them.

This should not be a cause for it to be banned though.

[RATTER15]

Keyplus, religion never challenges anything in my mind, only the mentality of its believers. And yes I link many things with religion because religion has infiltrated nearly every part of every bodies lives in some way!!

and only when every body realises the futility of these deities will we be able to escape from these ridiculous ideologies.

(sorry Gromit)

[annie0000]

I breastfed both my sons, but I have to say i rarely ever had to do it in public. I can remember feeding them a few times in the car on long journeys (not while the car was moving!), otherwise I fed them at home or wherever I was visiting in another persons home. Maybe I was just fortunate in that they would wait til they were fed and were pretty routine in feeding times.

[sp1814]

Gromit

You have to be ultra-careful using the Daily Mail as a source. It's another one of those stories where they're making up the link between the mother being banned and 'offending Muslims'. The receptionist (reportedly) said "this is a multicultural centre", but nowhere else in the story is there a link to anyone specifically saying that Muslims would be offended.

It's just the Mail reaching out to the baser instincts of some of it's more right wing readership, and it stinks.

[Safiya]

I agree with red post on first page. To me if you are out and about with a baby and it needs feeding then it needs feeding. I couldn't have cared less where I fed my kids when they were small, I was very discrete though.

[dave50]

Another case I'm afraid of some public sector busybody looking to be offended on someone else's behalf, even if the said people aren't bothered. After all they have to justify their existance dont they?

[B00]

This is appalling. We are told time and time again that "breast is best" with regards to feeding babies, a fact which no one disagrees with, and yet we are being told that it is somehow shameful and should be done well away from public places.

Utterly disgusting.

[Safiya]

*/ Breast-feeding mother 'told to leave council headquarters because she would offend Muslim visitors' *


by the link it seems it was the opinion of one of the staff that this would happen.... cool that someone knows her job so well she knows every Muslim in the town and of course what does or doesnt offend them.

[daisya]

I don't think people are saying it's shameful to do this BOO, but not everyonewants to witness this intimate moment between mother and baby so it should be done discreetly which I agree with.