What are your thoughts on breastfeeding in public? (I ask because I work for Applebee's, and apparently another store made a woman leave for doing it. I was even made to sign off on a document outlining the current local laws on it.)
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ANSWERS: 24
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What did you sign off on? Would you throw a breast feeding mother out?
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I think it's absurd. Even though each establishment has a right to set some guidelines I think they're overreacting. I don't mean to generalize but, How much more intolerant can people get?
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I 100% support and encourage breast-feeding in public. I would not dine at or support any establishment that did not advocate a child's right to be comfortably fed by his/her mother. I do not believe that a woman should be told to or forced to cover up whilst she is breast-feeding. I certainly do not support mothers being made to feed their children in rest-rooms, either. A baby is a human being who has as much right to be comfortable and nourished as any adult does. When people who oppose breast-feeding in public are prepared to cover their heads whilst eating, or eat their meals in a public toilet, maybe I'll reconsider my stance. Until then, any future babies I have will be fed when they are hungry, regardless of where I am.
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First off, what a bunch of idiots. I'm sorry you have to deal with people like this. I am all for it. This is not dirty, this is not nasty, and this sure as hell is not a sex act. It is natural and healthy for both the mother and the baby. It should be a right. Our socity is all screwed up on the issue of women, their bodies, sex, and breast feeding. We live in a time where we are bombarded where every we go with images of women and there bodies being potrayed as sex objects. We live in a socity where it's considered a form of freedom of expression to sell your body and your sexuality to any guy who walks in the door of a strip club. Never mind the damage this does to these women and the men who frequent those plcaes, but our socity as well. Yet we still have a problem with a woman doing exactly what her body was designed for and that's to carry and nurish her children. We can't get the idea that breasts are not just for sex through our heads. Never mind that this is normal, healthy, and good for not only the mother and the baby, but socity as a whole. It's down right immature and discriminatory.
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It can be done in modest fashion and it can be also be done in a flaunting manner..it depends on the nature of the woman who is doing it..if she has the least bit of sensitivity to others she will make sure it is done quietly and in a decorous fashion. I have been there and I have done it and never called attention to myself or my baby..so it is possible. :)
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Well it doesn't bother me one bit. Its management that has the problem.
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Most women I've witnessed do it discreetly (and I don't notice it all that often, so, they are very discreet). I mean, if a woman was exposing herself to everyone, that would be one thing...but when does that ever happen? People need to lighten up!
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any restuarant that forbid someone from breastfeeding their child would never recieve my buisness-never-i tink some people have forgotten what is important and breast feeding is the best food for a child----just my thoughts-smile and enjoy the night
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So... a baby is hungry and must be denied food (even though it's right THERE) until the mother has a chance to hide away so that the general public does not accidentally catch a glimpse of *gasp* a breast? Sounds pretty silly when ya put it that way, doesn't it?
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I definitely don't think you should deny the baby food...but at least cover up. There should be some give and take. It makes many people uncomfortable. Between starving the baby and making people uncomfortable, the baby wins.
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Breastfeeding in public is a thing of beauty! Women who nurse their babies should be applauded for providing their infants with a healthy start in life!! Anyone who is offended has their OWN issues. Breasts are, after all, made for feeding babies!
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I personally don't have a problem with it.
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My thought's are the mother should of drove the tit down the throat of the one who asked her to leave.Guess they were jealious, There are very narrow minded people...I would be maybe rather shy of doing it in public,but I don't discriminate anyone for doing so....We had a lady who use to breastfeed in church,There were some narrow minded people who made a joke out of it,they were the only ones who chuckled....She was sitting next to me and that was the only way I noticed her,plus it quiet the baby down as the little precious child was just a bawling....I'm sure most people didn't mind especially the ones with a hang-over...lol lol
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Let's see, there was a baby at a restaurant that was hungry and the mom got kicked out for feeding the child? What is wrong with this picture. There is nothing wrong with breast feeding in public or anywhere else. It can be done discretely and keeps mom, child and everyone else happy. What on earth is wrong with that?
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I personally was not comfortable breastfeeding in public, and rarely did. When I did, I always kept a baby blanket over the entire upper half of my body so nobody could see anything. That being said, if anybody had tried to remove me from any place because I was breastfeeding, I would have gone off on them, especially a resturaunt manager. Seeing as it is an eating establishment, it would seem appropriate!
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as long as mommy dearest isn't hanging out for the world to see the "miracle" at hand, it's fine. i don't think its okay to ask her to leave, and if i were the mother i would've made an uproar.
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Why do Americans have such a problem with breasts? They're not dirty or secret, everyone has them. They are there for the sole purpose of feeding babies. Why do we think it's cute when cows or pigs or kittens do it, but not humans? My thoughts are, if you don't like to see it in public, don't look. In fact, people could take it a step further, and mind their own business. It should NOT be such a taboo activity, or something that you're ashamed to explain to your children.
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so the law said you cant say anything to her, right? What are my thoughts on a hungry baby....hmmm....feed it!
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The baby has to eat. The mother has to feed him. Everyone else doesn't have to look or have anything to do with it. Breast milk is not considered a bodily fluid in the way that urine and blood is. It's food. So yeah we should encourage it always. Personally it gives me warm fuzzies to see it.
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People need to get over themselves and let a baby eat for fu**s sake.
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You can always tell the pedo's from the normal people when you see a woman breast feeding. The pedo's see something perverted in a baby eating, the normal people see something natural. I have no problem with a woman feeding her baby. It's natural, not sexual.
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Discretion is the key word. Some women can breatfeed and you never know it's happening. Other women are too obvious. I really don't want to see anybody's business hanging out at the dinner table. I do think asking someone to leave the business is draconian if it is solely based on breatfeeding. I have to guess that she took an attitude with management and THAT'S why she was asked to leave, not the act of breastfeeding on its own.
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Not a thing in the world wrong with it. Expecting anyone, including babies, to eat in a bathroom, as some places are now espousing, is wrong. I also hated places that had immobile seats so that I couldn't move back far enough to feed my baby whether I'd been bottle feeding or breast feeding. I breast fed all five of mine for about 1 and 1/2 years. Of course, I was discreet. I also did not do this when they were over a year old in public. At that point, they were old enough to wait until we got home. This was throughout the 1980s. I never was kicked out of any place. I do recall one place that frowned on it, but one out of many, many was not so bad. Well, one to many, but back then it wasn't too bad.
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its not against the law to throw some one out if they are breast feeding, unless you have a breast feeding licence, this is no joke.my daughter in law has one.
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