Strangest place to breastfeed.

[Heaven]

LOL, 'extreme breastfeeding'

[Lenny]

On a sofa in the middle of an Ikea 'display room' (a bit naughty, but i was too stressed to find my way back to the cafe bit )
In a huge crowd watching the elephant babies playing at Melbourne zoo.
On a boat in the middle of a river while DH was wakeboarding! High speed feed!

I did use parent's rooms in busy airports with a DS who was very fidgety and distracted, but never ever in a toilet or other 'out of the way' place!

[entreat]

Good one, Lenny!
I forgot, I regularly feed at bunnings on the outdoor settings. There's one setting I found really comfortable & tried to convince DH that we needed it (if for nothing else, feeding was really relaxing on it!).

[tellytubby]

Ooo actually lenny I've done it on a display couch at target once before too

[HotI]

Let's go on a quest!

Would make a good coffee table book....

LOL, 'extreme breastfeeding'

I love it! Have to start collecting photos of our adventures.

[Michelle71]

I love it! Have to start collecting photos of our adventures.

That would be brilliant

I often use the outdoor setting in Kmart / Big W etc to feed on

[boomba]

these are fantastic girls.
You have reminded me of so many different places i have fed.
I fed ds2 in the nice glider chair that was for sale a toys r us. :-)

[briggsy's girl]

no where "extreme" but i never bothered where i was - if E needed a feed, she got it

one food court experience stands out - an older guy (in his 70's) asked to share our table. He knew my Aunt (with intellectual disability) and she had been warned by mum several times to essentially ignore me feeding. E pulled off to be burped and the lovely old fella said "ahhhh that's what we like to see, a happy contented booby baby" - and my aunt nearly fell off her chair at him commenting. it was lovely though - he just accepted that she was feeding and that it was natural.

i freaked a bunch of 15 year olds out - sitting inside watching AFL grandfinal cos DD was asleep, they joined me and got a bit rowdy - woke her up (and apologised profusely) and all averted their gaze VERY quickly when i said it was ok, she was due a feed and started to get her organised lol

[Jellyfish]

All the usual places! Car, plane, train, bus.. at the beach, in the ocean, in the pool, in the bath/shower, on display furniture, doctor's waiting room, doctor's room, cafes, restaurants, shopping mall benches, funerals (Maternal Grandma, Paternal Grandpa), in line at the bank, walking around the shops, doing housework... but my favourite is still the classic snuggled up in bed together!

Most recently at Australia Zoo, sitting on the bench in front of the tigers! Oh and the other day at the doctor, the nurse needed a urine sample from DD and offered a glass of water to help things along but she wasn't interested so I said 'no worries' and out came the sure-fire boobs. The nurse said it was neat to see a breastfeeding toddler

It is hard to remember where I have fed, it is just an everyday thing now. I think a book full of breastfeeding women in different locations would make an awesome coffee table book!

[nickle730]

Just took the kids over to the local velodrome to have a ride on their bikes. Few other cyclists on the track, middle aged males. Footy training going on in the middle of the track and a couple of blokes doing their personal training. Miss P was screaming for a feed so I popped her on the boob. Trouble is, DS5 still needs a bit of help starting off on his bike without the training wheels. So there I am, bub on boob, one hand pushing DS along, trying to keep an eye on DD7 so she didn't cause a big stack...

I tell myself the looks I received from all those blokes was not horror, it was admiration for my multi-tasking!!

[boomba]

As soon as the post started coming I thought what an awesome book this would make...if only I had the money to make it happen

[briggsy's girl]

laying on the grass outside with my daughter taking "self serve" to a whole new level
lots of pics - none of which i will share (way too many body issues lol)

[Glamourcide]

These posts are just too awesome I really wish that coffee table book did exist, I'd buy it in a second! Heck, I'd wanna star in it!

The 'strangest' place I BF'd DD2 was at the checkout at Target - cradling her with one hand while swiping my card and entering my PIN, then gathering up my shopping bags - the poor teenage assistant didn't know what to do! I'd been trying on clothes and I think DD2 had smelled boobies when I was getting changed, she woke up and I thought, 'Ahh the heck with it!' and kept going about my business because I was in a hurry

Her last-ever BF ( ) was in an emergency stopping bay on the Gateway in Brisbane We were heading for the Gold Coast and been on the road all day (thanks, GPS, for giving us the 'quickest route' through the back of bloody nowhere - gravel roads and stray cows meant it took us sooo much longer as we couldn't get faster than 40k/h!), DD2 started wailing in the back seat and I realised we weren't going to make the motel for at least another 3/4 hour, and she was mix-feeding (weaning) at the time but her bottles were in an esky and she wouldn't take one cold... 'Just find an exit or breakdown stop and get off, she wants it and she wants it NOW!'
It was pretty terrifying with all the traffic flying past at 140+k/h, I was sooo scared some idiot would plough into us, but despite all the noise and heat and stress, DD2 fed great, fell asleep and we got back on the road

[peanutter]

ah, Target - I bf in the change rooms once, sitting on the floor, with him cradled between my pulled-up knees, and by BBs worked fine!

re the book, do you reckon the ABA would help out? or another linked cause, like breast cancer or something?

it could be used as a fund raising book ... we could all "donate" our stories, someone could do some great pics, and the ABA could use it to sell for a profit to support the ABA ... ??

[Glamourcide]

^ I was totally thinking it would work if linked to the ABA - maybe a fund to further BFing education for expectant and new mums, or a charity like Bonnie Babes or something dealing with NICU babies? I don't know what's out there :/

[TeniBear]

I love the coffee table book idea! It could show the varied places, mothers, babies... Some that people might expect to see around (eg the typical late-20s mum feeding her newborn at home) and others that are less common/expected (young mum feeding a toddler in a theme park, heavily tattooed mum on a bus, etc)


Sent from my iPhone so forgive the speelung misstacks

[entreat]

I fed today 1) while giving a MCN demo to a woman (and a short life-coach session for her impending changes to her life when her baby arrives ina couple of weeks), and 2) Inspired by Lenny, I sat Jack & myself down on the outdoor setting at Kmart!

[peanutter]

go team!! ok, so who has a line to ABA or Bonnie Babes or SIDS or something, and is good at making a pitch?

and who is handy with a camera?

I think all of us can write our 1 liner ...

And then someone organised who can collate, make sure that there's no duplicates (and peiople with duplicates get invited to provide another wild and wacky location)

And then we all buy each other a copy for Christmas, and sit back thrilled at how much money we're helping raise for a good cause