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kebakat 
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Posted: 28 November 2006 at 8:00pm |
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Today during my lunch hour I was walking around the shops in palmy as I always do since most of the time I have lunch alone and it kills time..
So I'm in one of the shops and this lady is walking around holding a baby and im like aww cute then she turned a bit and she was breast feeding her baby while walking around browsing in the shop! anyone who looked at her was totally shocked and I must admit I was too!!
I don't mind breast feeding in "public places" but I think that's a bit too public! what if her baby had decided it had had enough, she gonna fix up her bra and top flashing her boob off to everyone in the shop??
Would anyone here shop while breast feeding????
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Posted: 28 November 2006 at 8:09pm |
ummmm no i don't think i would shop WHILE breastfeeding...charli is too heavy!! how weird! hehehe she must've really been enjoying her shopping so much she couldn't stop to have a sit down and feed bubs 
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Posted: 28 November 2006 at 8:16pm |
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I wouldnt think that is overly relaxing for mum or bubs? But in some countries the babies are in wrap arounds and boobs are loose underneath so bubs can suckle whenever they want...maybe she was taking a leaf out of that book?
AS long as baby is cared for I dont mind...but would be interesting to see what some shop assistants etc thought and if they would be brave enough to say anything to her?
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Posted: 28 November 2006 at 8:19pm |
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The shop assistant was watching the lady constantly and had the most concerned look on her face. I think she wanted to say something but wasn't brave enough
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Posted: 28 November 2006 at 8:26pm |
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I've seen a few ladies do that in big department stores. I don't mind it really... each to their own. I've seen plenty of boobs in my time!! But it still did suprise me a bit... and I wouldn't personally do it!
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Posted: 28 November 2006 at 8:30pm |
i would,nt do it myself james was far too heavy but if they want to then as long as bubs is heathy and happy then why not 
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Posted: 28 November 2006 at 8:56pm |
He he he... wonder if that was the same lady I saw breastfeeding while walking around a shop in Palmy?
Kinda OT, but the mother's room in The Plaza here has a chair with high arms, only chair in the room (in fact, only place you could possibly sit in the room) - but it's too narrow to fit even my under 2-mth old baby across!!! How whacked is that? A chair you can't breastfeed in in the mother's room, with no other options of anywhere to sit?!? So if anyone sees a lady discreetly feeding in Starbucks instead, that'll probably be me!
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Posted: 28 November 2006 at 9:12pm |
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It wouldn't bother me seeing someone do it - personally wouldn't do it myself (especially cause Rhyley takes time to latch on) but as someone said each to their own and if they are comfortable with it so be it. Its funny but I don't care - at home - if I am hanging loose - they don't feel like a boob they are a milk machine....
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Posted: 28 November 2006 at 9:19pm |
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I think i would be a bit shocked, not offended or anything but shocked. I mean people go on about the whole bonding thing that only breastfeeding can give (utter cr*p in my opinion but anyway) how can you bond with baby while feeding and looking at clothes or whatever. shouldnt you be gazing lovingly into your babies eyes blah blah blah
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Posted: 28 November 2006 at 9:21pm |
lol Robyn Love it!
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Posted: 28 November 2006 at 9:54pm |
Well..... I've done it but I know you didn't see me today  I'm sure I never feed and walked around with Hannah (except at home - the spuds just NEEDED to be turned down etc). But when I was out with colicky-Briona and going-to-be-tired-soon-20-month-old-Hannah it was about the only thing I could do. Bria was in a baby pack so I was able to keep discreet and she was so little that she was gonna cry until she got fed anyway and wasn't at the pop-off stage yet. But also the places she needed feeding (Warehouse, supermarket) had no seating so it was stand up or walk around... or leave the shop to go to the car and come back 
I agree its kinda weird, but in the really young days with Briona I felt I hardly had a choice. So I just got on with it lol
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Posted: 28 November 2006 at 10:02pm |
Fair enough!
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Posted: 28 November 2006 at 10:06pm |
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Its funny but i dont even walk around and bottle feed Addison, and didnt with kobe either. I do at home if the phone rings or whatever but I feel funny doing it in a shop,would not even think to really not sure why but it just doesnt feel right (and not saying its a bad thing to anyone who does it, I just feel funny about doing it)
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Posted: 28 November 2006 at 11:31pm |
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Andie - i know it's far away , but the mums room in downtown is soo much better, as is the one in the ladies rest rooms in the square.. they even have nice big comfy couches.. i avoid the plaza one like the plague. lol
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Posted: 29 November 2006 at 12:37am |
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I have done this when Anastasia was only a few weeks old, couldnt do it now as we only use football hold, which btw makes it really hard to feed in most of the parents rooms at malls. Anyway I was at the stage that I had to get out of the house, also needed some shopping so dragged Karl and Ashlyn with me to Rolleston NW, baby woke just as we started so went back to the shop enterance and proceeded to feed then got started on the shopping, we got just over 1/2 way thru and she started up again, well I wasn't going back out of the shop, I had a c-section and mild infection so by this time was getting tired and wanted to get it all over and done with ... tried to settle baby to no avail so popped her under my arm and off we went .....yes we did get some unusual looks but it had to be done. Funny thing was, I was telling my MW how I had got out over the weekend and what had happened and she lets out this roar of laughter and said to me "so that was you, good on you" one of her other ladies had seen what I was doing and had inspired her to do the same!! Also did the same at Pak n save Hornby and got stopped by a couple of ladies congratulating me on being able to multi task. Sometimes these things just have to be done and I would do the same again! BTW - I wear oversize t-shirts and tops so very little chance of anyone seeing anything they shouldn't and if they do they are looking too hard hehehe
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Posted: 29 November 2006 at 2:49am |
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Hehe I am really pro-breastfeeding in public so when I see stuff like that I feel like going up and saying "good for you!". I never do though, because that would be weird. I don't think it would be physically possible for me to feed that way- I had to be sitting in the right kind of chair, with a feeding pillow in a certain position before I could get Charlotte to latch on. I never fed in public because I was never able to! I used to feel so envious of people who could just get it out and sit in a cafe or something as I could only ever feed in mothers rooms and even then in was a nightmare getting her to feed properly. Hopefully this one will be easier.
I found that once I went through childbirth I had very little shame or dignity left- a whole room of people had seen my lady bits so the thought of others seeing my breasts is just no big deal!
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Posted: 29 November 2006 at 7:51am |
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Lots of people say that aye but I was the opposite, I felt like after I had had to expose myself to so many random people I just wanted a little bit of dignity back and would be super prudish for a while straight after the birth.
Maybe I should try it next time Addison starts going to town halfway through shopping (not b/f thats is, could be a bit hard for me now hehe) would certainly save time.
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Posted: 29 November 2006 at 8:03am |
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i personally wouldn't do it but my mum (who is very pro breastfeeing in public) says that's because i'm still a bit young and self conscious. but i definitely have no problem with other women doing it, more power to them i say. if bubs needs to be fed then they need to be fed. if i was going to do it though, i think i would prefer to sit down rather than walk around trying to hold the baby in place, just sounds too hard for my liking.....but i do see that sometimes there just isn't that option.
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Posted: 29 November 2006 at 8:40am |
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I personally wouldnt as my boobs are too big and baby would be somewhere around my belly button if i did it. But i actually think its GREAT that she was and empowering for other women. I mean would you have taken offence if she was walking around the shops feeding her baby with a bottle. Obviously the baby and mum were comfy feeding this way as baby would not have been latched if he wasnt. So good on her. just my personal opinion.
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Posted: 29 November 2006 at 8:43am |
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I agree with you Maria. I don't think there is anything weird about it either! YAY!!! It just helps normailise the whole thing so it isn't as awkward for us other mums to b/f in public (even if it's just sitting in a cafe and not necesaarily walking around shopping!)
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