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Originally Posted by brad2002tj
I doubt many of the anti-breastfeeding in public nazis have children. Depending on the child you have to feed them every 90 minutes to 3 hours at irregular intervals. If you really insist on sharia-type nursing restrictions you basically mandate nursing women to never leave the house. My wife would feed in the car when she could, but sometimes you are out somewhere and the baby wakes up hungry and needs to be fed. Are you really going to insist that the woman has to sit on the floor in a ****ty public restroom to feed the baby? What kind of monstrous society does that to their women? We aren't talking about something that takes 20 seconds like pissing. Depending on the baby it could take from 5-30 minutes to feed. "Allowing" women to feed their baby in public is the only solution that isn't a grotesque violation of human decency.
This is the argument that makes sense to me.
But inherent in this argument, to me at least, is that if you can just as easily feed your kid privately its the polite thing to do given that many people are uncomfortable with breast feeding happening in public.
A Mom feeding her kid at the mall because she's in the middle of getting a bunch of **** done and the only convenient option is to sit down on a bench and feed the kid seems totally reasonable to me.
A Mom going to a fancy restaurant and feeding her kid right at her table seems less reasonable to me and often just plain rude. Nor do I get the indignation when something like Facebook says they don't want any nipple pictures of a baby being breastfed.
Edit: I also think its considerate to use a cover when breast feeding in a public place unless there are reasons not to (like you have a kid that won't breastfeed with it on).