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Breast or bottle I really dont judge. This article made my blood boil!!!! The comments people put! Why dont they understand that you cant pick and choose when a baby is hungry arghhh,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1302057/Put-away-bus--Stunned-mother-ordered-bus-breastfeeding-son.html
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1302057/Put-away-bus--Stunned-mother-ordered-bus-breastfeeding-son.html
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and this quote,
I breast fed for a while, then switched to the bottle for both my children but under no circumstances, with either option, would i feed them on a filthy, dirty, noisy bus which have generally got one if not 2 not-rights on them. I always made sure I was in acceptable, clean surroundings - not for the benefit of other people - but for the benefit of my babies. Anyone who says - a baby feeds when it needs to - she had no choice the baby was hungry - blah blah blah.. She should have soothed the baby until she was in an enviroment suitable to feed... Why would anyone want to feed a child on a bus, I certainly wouldnt eat on one.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1302057/Put-away-bus--Stunned-mother-ordered-bus-breastfeeding-son.html#ixzz0wITesAfo
Oh yeah you try telling a new born that they can wait for their food, i would just say it's cruel to let a baby that young to wait they have no sense of time!! and i know for a fact no sense of soothing would calm mo lo down if he was hungry at that age he would need to be fed straight away!!
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It has really made me think twice about bf in public if the views of some of those comments are the majority I don't BF because i'm an exhibitionist, i bf because i know it's the best for my lo grrrr x
Another question has occured to me, from a purely safety point of view - should the baby be out when the bus is moving? Obviously they couldn't be in a car seat but isn't that dangerous? I've never got the bus with Benjamin so sorry if this is a daft q!
Re baby on the bus...hmmm...I take Lucas in his sling and I can feed him in that, not sure how safe I'd feel just holding him...I'm unstable enough as it is!!!
Poor girl though...what a w****r!
Sorry, girls, I'm with the driver - put 'em away. There's a time and a place, and this ain't it. You know when you're baby is going to need feeding so structure your movements accordingly.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1302057/Stunned-mother-Lauren-McKenna-ordered-bus-breastfeeding-son.html#ixzz0wJIyeOy0
Lets see, a 6 wk old baby, he'll want feeding whenever he is hungry, which could be anything from every 1/2 hr to every 3 hrs!! Unfortunately the baby will not have yet memorised the bus timetable to fit in with!!!
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The comments make it sound like breastfeeding women just whap their boobs out and have them flapping around for all to see!! I am sure all these people that say "I don't want to see it" have probably seen it loads of times and had no idea! My friend walked through customs while she BF her 2 week old - and I doubt anyone realised.
Oh and before this thread turns into another "feeding debate" can I just say - Whether you FF or BF - I think everyone needs to be tolerant, and respect a woman's right to choose what is right for her and her baby. (just thought I'd get that in early on!)
And as for the people's comments, I can't believe how out of touch so many people can be? Even if they don't know about babies needing feeding more often etc how they can be offended by a baby feeding, and people talking about 'putting them away', you can't see anything anyway.
I was just getting so mad reading the comments. And how come if you agreed with the girl you were a 'breastfeeding Nazi' but if you were rude and narrow minded then you were perfectly rational?
i said to my husband i would have flashed him-just to teach him a lesson-which yes i would expect to be thrown off a bus for! lol and hubby said we should all let our babies cry in the bus drivers ear-that would distract him more than breastfeeding! my hubby is a shy man (obv the opposite of me,bless him) and even he said a baby needs to be feed where ever the baby is hungry be it ona bus or an ywhere else and no one should be made to feel bad about it!
also what on earth is the comment about it being a dirty bus! wtf?! the baby is suckling on the mothers breast not licking the fricking floor!!
can we all see it made me slightly angry!
i breastfed for 9 months and got nothing but smiles and praise!!
no wonder so many young mothers dont want to do it!
Wasn't there another mother in Bristol involved in an exact same 'incident' only for it to be found to be a load of tosh and she'd made it up? I really hope this isn't another attempt at five minutes of fame...
[Modified by: EmilyB on August 11, 2010 08:42 PM]
Stagecoach have said its a load of tosh. If that's true she's an absolute idiot!
Still think all the comments are absolutely stupid though. Halfwits
I hate it when people make comments about feeding in public, it can be done discreetly and comparing it to how people fed 50+ years ago is just silly. Mums are not always at home these days and therefore neither are the babies. For goodness sake, it's just a baby eating and it's not like there are not boobs on show left right and centre of the average city - in newspapers, billboards etc
Ive fed my LO about a million times on the bus, tube, train, cafe, restaurant, park... never had any problems. Ignore those ignorant people who think there is somethign wrong and go about feeding your LO's!!
Em x