feeding rooms - am i wrong?

[staycutee]

maybe the women who were formula feeding didnt know you breastfed so didnt think to get up

 

[abigail_71]

To be fair everyone is wrapped up in their own business feeding their own babies.

When my SIL started breastfeeding, she was self conscious and went to mothercare (I think), the feeding room had a lock so she locked herself in. Someone tried the door and it was only later she realised the room had a few chairs and she could have shared the space with another feeding mum or two.

But I would be upset too - maybe would have asked for another chair as mothercare are so good like that.

 

[Dragonfly]

Out mothercare has nothing in it! I heard some had feeding rooms ours dosnt. I doubt it even has a changing room ffs. I can see why your annoyed to be honest , was there only 2 seats? sounds very small.

 

[Aidan's Mummy]

I used teh nursing rooms in mothercare and boots etc with Aidan as when he was a newborn it was bitterly cold and I wasn't prepared to sit out side feeding him in the cold
xx

 

[Dragonfly]

boots has a nursing room to!??? why do we not have these things here in ours?? we have baby changing in shopping center but no feeding rooms anywhere.

 

[Celesse]

I've never been in a feeding room. I've been in a couple baby changing rooms, that have a toilet in and a chair and claim to be feeding rooms but tbh they look more like toilets to me which I find kinda gross that they would expect the baby to eat there.

Plus I don't like the fact that most feeding rooms have a picture of a bottle on.... Clearly they are for bottle fed babies . I think one day I should ask for the room with a picture of a boobie on it to feed my baby.

 

[Aidan's Mummy]

I think they should have a bottle sign and teh offical breastfeeding sign. That way mums however they feed don't feel akward etc.I think tehy should be bigger. And I know in my mothercare one there is a seat with a curtain round it and then another seat at the other side of the room. Really nice

xx

 

[Celesse]

I think they should have a bottle sign and teh offical breastfeeding sign
xx

Is the official breastfeeding sign the one with a person kinda cradle holding a baby?

 

[Aidan's Mummy]

Yeah I think so hun
xx

 

[ChloesMummy]

I have used the feeding rooms to bottlefeed my babies, they have bottle warmers in them so I always made a point of going to rooms in Mothercare and Boots. Restaraunts etc very, very rarely will heat bottles or give you boiled water. I doubt the ladies even realised you were going to BF or probs would have made space for you. If you are ever in the situation again, ask one of the ladies in store for a seat as they are usually very helpfull x

 

[MrsBandEgglet]

I never know what to do for the best lol I express my milk so I go into the nursing room to express because I've been in the changing/feeding room before and was happily pumping away and a man came in to change his daughter Then I go into the other room to feed him because I'm always worried that someone will say something (I'm not good with confrontations lol). Were they in the nursing room or just the 'feeding' room? If it was the nursing room then you have every right to be annoyed; they're using a facility they have no need for and preventing somebody, who actually needs it, from doing so. xx

 

[MandaAnda]

I find a lot of the change/feed rooms smell and wouldn't feed Jack in those. I hate even changing him in there. (Exception: the one in Lakeside was massive and wonderful!)

I think in this situation, I'd go sit in one of the rocking chairs that was on display and feed my baby there. If the staff said anything, I'd just point out that the "feeding room" was full and that my baby needed a feed immediately (you could also say you're trying out the chair for practical purposes!). But that is me, as I'm happy to feed anytime and anywhere. I hope it's easier next time you're out and need to feed LO.

 

[fantastica]

I understand why you'd be annoyed...but couldn't you have waited for a few mins, if that was possible?!

I never used a feeding room to ff, but I hated bottle feeding in public, and would have to time outings around feeding times,I was just really ashamed...which is silly but still, so sometimes it can be just as hard to ff as it is to bf.

Having said that, maybe if they knew you were trying to bf they would've stood up??

It is frustrating, but everyone's entitled to use them! x

 

[Boothh]

I would have stood by them and done it as long as I could, huffing and puffing to make my point. lol

what would be your point? that BF mothers and babies have more right to feed in private area than FF mothers and babies? lol, if you had done that to me i would of told you were to get off, just because i feed my baby with a bottle doesnt mean you have anymore right to a seat in a feeding room than i do!

 

[Nic1107]

If the issue was just seating- like there is nowhere else to sit and feed outside the feeding room, I'm afraid I'd have to stay sitting because I physically can't hold Carmen in one arm without supporting her on my lap, and hold the bottle with the other hand. But if there was somewhere else to sit outside the feeding room, I'd happily give up my seat for a BF mom so she could have privacy; I think I would feel uncomfortable feeding in public so I would have sympathy for other women who would like some privacy. If there is just nowhere else to sit though, and my mom isn't with me (she can feed Carmen standing up just fine), I'm not going to sit on the floor! But I've never actually used a feeding room yet because there's always been somewhere else to sit.

 

[Faerie]

I would be upset that there wasn't enough room, but I don't think anyone has more of a right than anyone else. First come first served and sometimes life's not fair. Saying that I fed Sofia everywhere and anywhere.

Next time I'd ask the staff like someone else said, might prompt them to think they need a more suitable area.

 

[Faerie]

p.s you guys are lucky, there generally aren't changing rooms let alone feeding rooms over here!

 

[Eternal]

i can understand why you would be upset, but i am not sure what you expected them to do?

i never used those sorts of rooms, i only BFin the begining and then FF, i usually just fed Sam anywhere when i FF but it really isnt easy setting it all up.

I would of been really upset if i was in the middle of feeding my baby and someone came in expecting me to stop feeding my baby in the middle of a feed so they could feed their baby.

however i can appreaciate how you must have felt. if it were me i would probably have waited of asked if you could squeeze in!

Good luck though honey, keep it up!!!

 

[Pippin]

I would have stood by them and done it as long as I could, huffing and puffing to make my point. lol

what would be your point? that BF mothers and babies have more right to feed in private area than FF mothers and babies? lol, if you had done that to me i would of told you were to get off, just because i feed my baby with a bottle doesnt mean you have anymore right to a seat in a feeding room than i do!

Totally agree with you Booth and I breastfed exclusively for 10 months! On or off the boob, babies usually need a quiet calm, clean, environment to feed, we can't all be blessed with babies that feed anywhere. I'd never expect anyone to move, we just have to wait for each other to finish. After all you don't turf someone out of their restaurant seat before they finish just because you want to sit by the window!

 

[gills8752]

I know how you feel. At first I was so shy I couldn't feed anywhere let alone a feeding room.
But if that was me now - I'd just plonk myself on the floor and get the boob out. I've fed in all sorts of strange places now. You will get used to it - just try put a brave face on and sit on the floor if needs be. Baby will always get their milk hygienically from boobs so there are no worries about sitting on the floor to feed.