I’m not a mother, but I’m pretty sure there are more appropriate ways to breast feed than just letting your kid swing from your tit while you push your cart up and down the aisles looking for lampshades.
I couldn’t do that… for a multitude of reasons.
Thanks Brian S
I don’t see what is inappropriate about feeding your baby when he is hungry. No one would complain about a man walking through WalMart eating a sandwich!
Dunno, when our kids were that age I took care of them while my wife worked. I did 99.9% of the shopping and I never had to do this.
Oh god! I once worked in this store and this women was doing that. The kid was like 3 b***h actually stood next to me while i was pricing stuff. Very very painful 10 minutes.
That’s Gross. No Self-Respecting woman would do this.
Bella,
From the looks of her, I don’t think she has any self respect.
I respect myself, and I would do this. I really don’t see what the problem is – she is wearing the baby in a sling, and she is feeding him. The baby is obviously not just hanging on there by the force of his nursing! She even has a blanket over her shoulder!
So how is that gross? Is it just gross because she’s overweight, which has nothing to do with her choice to feed her baby?
Wow. Mean people really stink. I think she has got a lot of courage and a great self-esteem statement considering she has do deal with mean spirited comments and rude stares. I guess that’s a really good thing for her baby…she is giving the best she can possibly give and doing exactly what her body was made for and my guess is that she could give a flying crap less what closed minded people think. I am so happy for her.
Pretty messed up when people think that a mother feeding her baby the way nature intended is somehow offensive or gross. Where do feelings like that come from? Of course, if she was feeding her baby a bottle of formula, no one would think twice about it, right?
This topic has always been a double-sided sword. The need to feed a child is a different topic from a woman walking around half naked exposing her private parts to the world. A man walking around eating a sandwich is not exposing himself. Most all department stores provide really nice areas where Mom & baby have the privacy to feed and change tables as well. I had a friend that was arrested for indecent exposure for breast feeding in the garden center at Sears. She was offered to take the 10 steps into the feeding area and she refused. Her picture with her crying baby and two other children was on the front page of the newspaper as they carted them off to jail. Although I think this was to the extreme to be arrested, I can’t help but feel sorry for the older children that were begging her to go in that room. People are not rude for staring, it’s been placed there by an inconsiderate person flashing themself. I feel offended when I see this and wonder why some women think it is acceptable. Tuck it in and get it out of my face. Nature doesn’t dictate that feeding has to be done in the public eye.
The mother is not exposing herself. She is covered & not exposed (other than her back, which is perfectly fine).
Your friend should sue Sears and the police department because all 50 states have laws stating that a mother can breastfed her infant in any public place.
Breastfeeding is the best possible thing for that baby. That is a picture of a wonderful mother who cares deeply about her child. I am offended by mothers who find it acceptable to feed their children formula when they should just muster up the courage to do exactly what this mother is doing.
Bella, honestly, I am very self-respecting & I also respect my son. I don’t normally walk around Walmart feeding my son (I retire to my car for my own comfort because I don’t have a sling), but I definitely think that you should not be judging as harshly as you are.
Brian’s comments about this picture make me want to boycott Bits & Pieces as well. Just saying.
Tara, I agree that breast feeding a child (if you can, some women can’t for a lot of different reasons) is absolutely the best way to go. As long as Mom is putting good stuff into her body, it will pass down to the child. Good stuff. That’s natural and really the best thing for your child.
I’m talking about flopping it out, in front of everyone, and thinking it’s ok. Would a woman flop out her tit in public if a baby was not present? Just asking, because a lot of other stupid questions or statements have been asked here. I find it disgusting, so why would anyone else think that they can do it in front of men, small children, special needs people, grandpa, grandma, or the rapist next door neighbour? Why?
BTW Tara, I think Brian sent this picture in but I’m not sure if he is associated with the comment. Boycott is a strong word when you just disagree with one subject.
If anyone is gonna be flopping out their tits I’d suggest they try it out in private first. (my email address is on the contact page.)
Bella, they know what you mean and know you are right. But just to make them happy, the next time I feel the urge to use a restroom in Walmart, I’ll instead bring my stoop-n-poop to perform what my body intended right in aisle 5. It’ll be OK, I’ll wrap myself in a blanket.
Gotcha Scott, and Thanks for that.
LOL at Jonco, send in pretty titty pictures only.
I said that…not Jonco.
I think it speaks buckets that Scott would compare taking a shit to feeding a child.
Tara, Poop was once food, why can’t it be again? Relax…..