Breastfeeding In Public, Whats Your Views?

[piggynose]

I ask, because a young woman is breastfeeding her 2 year old son now in my local cafe.

[Svejk]

What's she like?

[RATTER15]

I dont have a problem with it at all! The most natural thing in the world!

[Jackdaw33]

2 year old???

[Retrochic]

piggynose how do you know the child is two years old?

[RATTER15]

2 year old? a little old to feeding that way, but each to their own!

[jomifl]

Seems appropriate to me, better than on the street or in public toilets.

[Retrochic]

A two year old should be drinking from a cup not a breast.

[andy-hughes]

A little old, but if she is being discreet, there is no problem.

Contrary to what the fusties say, you don't have to watch!!!

[jno]

fine by me. Are you hiding under a blanket while you eat?

[jomifl]

Jackdaw, a friend of mine breastfed her daughter until she was 5!

[naomi24]

^Agreed.

[Graham-W]

Certainly more hygienic than having to hide in the toilet to provide her offspring with a nutritious meal.

[naomi24]

That was to Retrochic. No need to breast feed a two year old in public.

[Retrochic]

IMHO when a mother lets a child breastfeed when its quite capable of drinking from a cup then she has major psychological problems

[Retrochic]

Graham A 'nutritious meal' for a two year old could be a boiled egg and soldiers, not breastmilk

[Graham-W]

Yes, Retrochic. It could be. But does the parent have no choice in how she chooses to feed her child?

[jomifl]

Retro, /she has major psychological problems/ I think you may be onto something there.

[hc4361]

It's fine. Not for me to say when someone else's child stops breastfeeding.

[aelmpvw]

i suppose it could upset people of a sensitive nature if she's serving tables at the same time

[Graham-W]

BTW I was breast fed to the age of 2 and it did me no harm....feck, beggar, arm, baaaaaah, mooooo!