Why Do Some Of The Mothers Of Today Find It Necessary To Feed Their Babies Indiscreetly?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2857391/Claridge-s-staff-order-mother-cover-huge-napkin-started-breastfeeding-12-week-old-baby.html

Yes it is a natural function, but there are also many other natural functions that we possess but still don't find the need to display them openly in public.

[bednobs]

i am still not entirely clear what happened in the "good old days" if a baby needed food when the parents were out?

[Retrochic]

bednobs -exactly! You can manually or mechanically express breast milk and store it for future use. I managed a full time job while breastfeeding ,leaving bottles of breast milk in the fridge for the nanny to feed baby.

[bednobs]

no, not exactly at all retrochic - i am in no way agreeing with your POV on this - i am just wondering how if this is a problem for "mothers of today" how did people used to go about things - simply stay in till the baby was weaned??

[bednobs]

ps, if you are expressing BM you then need bottles, sterilizing equipment etc, and if you are purely breast feeding, why would you want to do that on the offchance someone might get offended if you have to feed your baby when you are out?

[stuey]

In the "good old days". the mother stayed home ( she couldn't afford to go to Clarridges) and fed the baby, and the father went out to work. If the mother did have to go shopping and take the baby and the baby got hungry, then too bad: "Wait until we get home, kid, then I'll feed you...No instant gratification going on here".

[Retrochic]

Bednobs LOL! Make sure EVERYONE is aware you are not agreeing with me,heavens above!
As for your ridiculous suggestion that all mothers stay behind closed doors until the baby is weaned (average around 9 months after the birth) well - I'm speechless! Every mother I've known who has breastfed has had a bottle or two to save milk -you can freeze it you know and don't need sterilizing 'equipment -just a pan and some boiling water. its just so dad can give baby a night feed and let mum sleep -have you ever had children?

[-Talbot-]

tamborine
Clearly says childrens tea for 5-10y olds



Tambo, it also says ............



You're never too young to enjoy afternoon tea at Claridge's. Claridge's Foyer is delighted to welcome its younger guests with their very own afternoon tea menu. Available for children aged 5-10 years of age


___You're never too young to enjoy afternoon tea at Claridge's___

[ummmm]

My boys wouldn't take bottles!!!

[anotheoldgit]

jackthehat

/// Possibly...but we're not discussing what she 'might' have done.......we are discussing just how much of an abomination public breast-feeding actually is.... ///

No we are not, no one is saying public breast-feeding is an abomination, only that some just find the need to contravene 'house' rules, and then go to the media because someone has 'dared' to make them aware of them.

[tamborine]

Talbot, the mum was in the restaurant & not in the 'foyer'.

Bednobs, my babes survived the occasional formula milk when left with a carer coz I wanted some me time away from them....else I might be in Holloway ;)

[sherrardk]

I've never expressed milk or bottle fed formula whilst I was breast feeding - cancels out the whole convenience aspect if you've got to start faffing about with bottles, etc.

[Daffy6543]

I breastfed my son from birth till he was 2 years old, he would not take a bottle or a beaker, he couldn't physically drink from them due to delayed development. I couldn't express milk to bottle feed.
When he was 4 months old be developed bronchiolitis and was admitted to hospital and placed in an oxygen head box, he had to be tube fed due to the breathing problems and not being able to suck a bottle teat.

[ummmm]

I didn't have to express milk in the early days. It just flowed

[ummmm]

Duffy....was that painful?

[ummmm]

I mean for your blobs....

[Daffy6543]

It wasn't painful at all, he seemed to know he shouldn't bite me. He caught me with his teeth more than once but he never actually bit down.

[bednobs]

hi retrochic, yes i've had three children.