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Breast Feeding in Restaurant

  • 31-03-2012 10:49pm
    #1
    Cheeky_gal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭


    Was out for lunch in a very busy restaurant today and a woman at the table next to us started breast feeding. Couldn't believe it. I thought it was so ignorant. I looked around at people's reactions and everyone seemed shocked. Obviously it's not something people haven't seen before, but in a restaurant while people are eating?

    There's a time and a place.

    I wonder if the majority of people feel this way. Going by people's facial expressions in the restaurant they weren't too impressed.
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  • #2
    Taco Corp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,718 ✭✭✭Taco Corp


    Don't see what the big deal is.


  • #3
    g'em
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,819 ✭✭✭✭g'em


    Why is something that's so fundamentally natural so horrific? What is so 'ignorant' about a woman using her own body to feed her baby? Why do you find this so shocking?


  • #4
    Toby Take a Bow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,732 ✭✭✭Toby Take a Bow


    Baby needs food. Breasts give food (to babies).


  • #5
    Princess Peach
    Registered Users Posts: 11,698 ✭✭✭✭Princess Peach


    Just turn around and don't look so :confused:


  • #6
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,215 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Cheeky_gal wrote: »
    Was out for lunch in a very busy restaurant today and a woman at the table next to us started breast feeding. Couldn't believe it. I thought it was so ignorant. I looked around at people's reactions and everyone seemed shocked. Obviously it's not something people haven't seen before, but in a restaurant while people are eating?

    There's a time and a place.

    I wonder if the majority of people feel this way. Going by people's facial expressions in the restaurant they weren't too impressed.
    Grow the FUK up!!!


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  • #7
    keano_afc
    Registered Users Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    I'll take the ban if it comes, as it will be worth it.

    You're a moron. You mentioned ignorance in your post. It certainly wasnt the mother who was guilty of this. Thankfully there arent too many around like you.


  • #8
    subway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,131 ✭✭✭subway


    Here we go....


  • #9
    jokettle
    Registered Users Posts: 11,419 ✭✭✭✭jokettle


    It was lunchtime. Babies need lunch too. Breasts are designed to give milk to babies. Get over it ffs.


  • #10
    KeithM89_old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    Food and boobs! Doesnt get much better.


  • #11
    whatdoicare
    Registered Users Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭whatdoicare


    What's so ignorant about feeding a baby?:confused:


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  • #12
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,215 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    g'em wrote: »
    Why is something that's so fundamentally natural so horrific? What is so 'ignorant' about a woman using her own body to feed her baby? Why do you find this so shocking?
    Prepare for "Having a **** is natural but you don't do that in public" derpiness.
    I think she's on a wind-up tbh.

    "Ignorant" - lol. Someone needs a dictionary.


  • #13
    Bobby Baccala
    Registered Users Posts: 7,341 ✭✭✭Bobby Baccala


    Would you rather the child screaming crying in hunger?
    What's wrong with looking away???


  • #14
    Miaireland
    Registered Users Posts: 4,063 ✭✭✭Miaireland


    So where should the lady in question fed her baby? In the toilets? Or she shouldn't go out at all?

    Ignorant? I would look in the mirror.


  • #15
    Bluefoam
    Registered Users Posts: 7,693 ✭✭✭Bluefoam


    Cheeky_gal wrote: »
    Was out for lunch in a very busy restaurant today and a woman at the table next to us started breast feeding. Couldn't believe it. I thought it was so ignorant. I looked around at people's reactions and everyone seemed shocked. Obviously it's not something people haven't seen before, but in a restaurant while people are eating?

    There's a time and a place.

    I wonder if the majority of people feel this way. Going by people's facial expressions in the restaurant they weren't too impressed.
    Imagine... A human in a restaurant, feeding as god intended! What's the bit that disgusts you? Her tits or the fact that a baby requires food and refuses to wait for a more opportune time? Did you associate her breasts with sex? Do you feel dirty?


  • #16
    iguana
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 12,909 Mod ✭✭✭✭iguana


    Feeding a baby at meal times!?!? Well whatever next? Shoes on feet?!?:eek::eek::eek:

    Not only is your reaction ridiculous but if you in any way, even with your body language communicated your silly reaction to the mother of the child you should, under the equality legislation, have been asked to leave the premises. It is illegal to bother a breastfeeding woman with such foolishness and the premises can be fined heavily for allowing such carry on.


  • #17
    WesternNight
    Registered Users Posts: 9,286 ✭✭✭WesternNight


    Cheeky_gal wrote: »
    Was out for lunch in a very busy restaurant today and a woman at the table next to us started breast feeding. Couldn't believe it. I thought it was so ignorant. I looked around at people's reactions and everyone seemed shocked. Obviously it's not something people haven't seen before, but in a restaurant while people are eating?

    But you had no problem eating your lunch in front of others in a busy restaurant, while everyone else was eating. WTF is the problem with the kid doing the same?


  • #18
    g'em
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,819 ✭✭✭✭g'em


    Dudess wrote: »
    Prepare for "Having a **** is natural but you don't do that in public" derpiness.
    I think she's on a wind-up tbh.

    "Ignorant" - lol. Someone needs a dictionary.

    Sweet Jebus, is that how this conversation usually goes??

    God help the nation when I have babies. I'll be whipping the girls out for feeds at every available opportunity, public 'ignorance' be damned.


  • #19
    iguana
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 12,909 Mod ✭✭✭✭iguana


    g'em wrote: »
    Sweet Jebus, is that how this conversation usually goes??

    ****, urinating and defecating are the usual comparisons.


  • #20
    carrick79
    Closed Accounts Posts: 55 ✭✭carrick79


    Nobody has asked the most important question, did she have a nice rack? :cool:


  • #21
    Cheeky_gal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Cheeky_gal


    Didn't realise people weren't entitled to their own opinion on Boards.

    Some of you would want to relax. Especially you Dudess with the foul language.

    Breast feed elsewhere, not a restaurant.


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  • #22
    jockeyboard
    Registered Users Posts: 783 ✭✭✭jockeyboard


    Surely this is a joke?

    Obvious troll is obvious.


  • #23
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,215 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Cheeky_gal wrote: »
    Was out for lunch in a very busy restaurant today and a woman at the table next to us started breast feeding. Couldn't believe it
    Maybe I'm being sexist, but it's particularly gear-grinding when a woman has this attitude.
    OP, I'm assuming her breasts were covered up as much as possible, and only the nipple in the baby's mouth wasn't? That is usually how public breastfeeding goes. Therefore, those who are offended by tits out (but it's ok on page 3) are actually imagining things.
    The reason some women do this is because their babies won't take bottle-feeds, and they can't limit feeds to just private places - because the baby could start getting very hungry in public. And something tells me you wouldn't be tolerant of a baby screaming with hunger in public either.


  • #24
    ilovesleep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭ilovesleep


    There was a thread a few months ago about breastfeeding and in it, there was a story of a man who took offence of a woman breastfeeding and he told her to go to the toilets to breastfeed.

    Anybody that holds such a view: you fcuk off and take your own meal to the toilet.


  • #25
    iguana
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 12,909 Mod ✭✭✭✭iguana


    I have to say as outrageous as the OP is the rest of the posts are great. :)


  • #26
    whatdoicare
    Registered Users Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭whatdoicare


    Cheeky_gal wrote: »
    Breast feed elsewhere, not a restaurant.

    Like where?


  • #27
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,215 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Cheeky_gal wrote: »
    Didn't realise people weren't entitled to their own opinion on Boards.

    Breast feed elsewhere, not a restaurant.
    And when it's a retarded opinion, people are entitled to argue with it.

    What "elsewhere" would you suggest?


  • #28
    keano_afc
    Registered Users Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    Cheeky_gal wrote: »
    Didn't realise people weren't entitled to their own opinion on Boards.

    Some of you would want to relax. Especially you Dudess with the foul language.

    Breast feed elsewhere, not a restaurant.

    After much consideration, I have come to the conclusion the you must be a troll. Nobody, even in this day and age, can be so selfish and just plain wrong.

    Where should she have fed her baby, in you ignorant opinion?


  • #29
    g'em
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,819 ✭✭✭✭g'em


    Cheeky_gal wrote: »

    Breast feed elsewhere, not a restaurant.

    Why though? Seriously, why is it such a problem? You have boobs, you know what they're for, why is it so shocking to youm?


  • #30
    gernon
    Registered Users Posts: 454 ✭✭gernon


    Pic or GTFO


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  • #31
    Killed By Death
    Registered Users Posts: 143 ✭✭Killed By Death


    Cheeky_gal wrote: »
    Was out for lunch in a very busy restaurant today and a woman at the table next to us started breast feeding. Couldn't believe it. I thought it was so ignorant.

    :eek: DISGUSTING!
    Cheeky_gal wrote: »
    I looked around at people's reactions and everyone seemed shocked. Obviously it's not something people haven't seen before, but in a restaurant while people are eating?

    Where do you expect her to do it, in the toilet I suppose where people are $hitting?
    Cheeky_gal wrote: »
    There's a time and a place.

    Yeh, the time and place is when the baby is hungry which is pratically all the time. If the Mother was to do it in private then she could never leave the house, you know to do 'ignorant' things like.....oh I dunno...go to the Supermarket, meet a friend at a cafe, go to the chemist or um....well ANYTHING really! Would that suit you better?
    Cheeky_gal wrote: »
    I wonder if the majority of people feel this way. Going by people's facial expressions in the restaurant they weren't too impressed.

    I doubt the majority of people feel the same, you could try a poll if you want to see? :rolleyes:


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