Where to Feed - Breastfeeders.

[fairywings]

Just a quick question as it has been puzzling me. I never had to think of this with my first as i never breastfed but I am hoping to next time.

Soooooo . . .

If you are out and baby needs feeding but you have useless facilities like we do here, where do you feed baby? I won't have a car, the toilets do not have baby facilities except to actually change the bum (which are rare aswell) and is just hopeless!

So do I just go in somewhere and ask if they accept it? I would be so shy at doing that!

Thanks. x

 

[princessellie]

i got a leaflet in hospital that told u where u were allowed to breastfeed, maybe u could ask them, im sure they would know

x

 

[fairywings]

Thanks, I will ask for that! x

 

[hypnorm]

I thought you were allowed to breastfeed any where. Restaurants can get fined for asking you to stop - or so i thought.
I was just discreet, and chose a corner away from people but i was never on my own.

 

[thelilbump]

well the facilities in my area are next to useless aswell. I have had to pull up a cafe chair in a disabled toilet before now and get the OH to pull a store wheelchair in to asda toilets before now!! You will come up with allsorts of useful wys to feed, from folding up your coat to make a cushion on the poxy stool they put in the corner of the baby change room to pulling in wheelchairs. If you have a debenhams locally they normally have reasonably good facilities.

 

[Bec L]

You just tend to get used to feeding anywhere you can! I didn't breastfeed in public for quite a while and spent the first wedding we took Poppy to in the disabled toilet for most of the day as she was feeding every hour. But the more you get used to doing it, the more discreet you get and so today I just sat in a Caffe Nero feeding and no one batted an eyelid. I draped a muslin over Poppy's head just in case but even without you couldn't see a thing.

 

[Samantha675]

I feed Brennan where ever we are.

 

[Poloma]

I feed where ever we are! I try to be as discreet as I can, though my lil one is a very noisey feeder!

https://https://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23400217-details/Breastfeeding+in+public+will+be+a+woman's+right/article.do

 

[clairebear]

i feed any where from benchs in parks to cafes and resturants. it is ur right to feed ur baby wherever u wish x

 

[XKatX]

I feed where ever we are! I try to be as discreet as I can, though my lil one is a very noisey feeder!

https://https://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23400217-details/Breastfeeding+in+public+will+be+a+woman's+right/article.do

Couldn't access this page!
I used to plan everything around BFing, but now I just do it anywhere. When baby is screaming blue murder for food, people would quickly prefer you to discreetly BF, just to get some peace!

 

[Serene123]

i feed any where from benchs in parks to cafes and resturants. it is ur right to feed ur baby wherever u wish x

Is it? I thought in the UK you have to stop BF if someone feels uncomfortable?

 

[clairebear]

i thought the law had changed

 

[sam's mum]

I feed where ever we are! I try to be as discreet as I can, though my lil one is a very noisey feeder!

https://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23400217-details/Breastfeeding+in+public+will+be+a+woman's+right/article.do

I've changed the link so it hopefully works. It's never been an offence to feed anywhere, but I think until recently restaurant owners etc. could get away with asking you to leave. It's possible to feed without showing anything at all though, so I don't know why people would complain anyway. I feed Sam wherever we are - I have a nursing cover so nobody can see anything anyway, but nobody has ever said anything to me.

While you can feed anywhere, some companies (Starbucks, for example) actually advertise the fact that they are breastfeeding-friendly, and you'll find lots of people feeding in there x

 

[fairywings]

I hope the law has changed, or I would be pretty screwed to be honest. It is not like I can go to a shop and see in a window "breastfeeding welcome here". I think if it is still law I am frigged.

 

[sam's mum]

I hope the law has changed, or I would be pretty screwed to be honest. It is not like I can go to a shop and see in a window "breastfeeding welcome here". I think if it is still law I am frigged.

Nobody even notices most of the time - you can feed and just look like you're holding your baby. Nursing covers make it more obvious what you're doing but nobody can see anything (and you can get ones with stiff necks so you can see your baby) so what is there to complain about?

^ That article was from 2007 so I'm sure it must apply by now x

 

[fairywings]

Thanks, Yeah I will have to have a look for one of those nursing covers. It would make me feel less self-conscious, too. x

I do have a poncho though, would that work, or would baby get too warm?

 

[sam's mum]

How thick is the poncho? I've used a pashmina just to put over my shoulders and over Sam, or even a muslin while they're small enough not to pull it off! I like the fact that I can see what I'm doing with the nursing cover though - especially at first when I had to make sure he was going for the right bit! If it's very hot out he used to get really hot even under the nursing cover so a poncho might be too hot in the summer.

https://www.nursingcovers.com/

Would be quite easy to make something similar - you can even just get straps with clips on the end that you put around your neck and then clip onto anything like an apron x

 

[fairywings]

I think you are right, the ponch may be a bit thick for summer. Thanks for the advice, it has helped a lot. x