Why Do Some Of The Mothers Of Today Find It Necessary To Feed Their Babies Indiscreetly?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2857391/Claridge-s-staff-order-mother-cover-huge-napkin-started-breastfeeding-12-week-old-baby.html

Yes it is a natural function, but there are also many other natural functions that we possess but still don't find the need to display them openly in public.

[ganesh]

Yes, I was comparing female nudity and male nudity. Both body parts that we in society normally keep private. I do not see why you can't understand the analogy.

[ummmm]

Gosh...

[mccfluff]

given some of the answers sqad, I'm not sure people have figured that out & no need to be rude is there?

[andy-hughes]

Sqad - unless baby is having digesive troubles, most nappies don;t smell on filling - it takes a little time to filter through.

My youngest was bottle fed, and if I was out with her, and fed her, I would always change her straight afterwards - as I am sure most parents do.

So your scenario that a baby instantly voids her bowels and instantly gasses a forty-square-yard area doesn' really fly does it?

[Sqad]

andy-hughes

\\\\ unless baby is having digesive troubles, most nappies don;t smell on filling - it takes a little time to filter through. \\\\

That hasn't been my experience.

\\\\So your scenario that a baby instantly voids her bowels and instantly gasses a forty-square-yard area doesn' really fly does it?\\\

I wasn't considering 40 square yards, I was thinking of people at the next table.

Mcfluff.......it wasn't intended to be rude....just a statement of fact.

[Sqad]

Something else to consider......just because a baby starts to cry, it doesn't automatically mean that it is hungry, requiring a bottle or a t.t stuffed into it's mouth.
There are at least half a dozen other reasons.

[pixie373]

Sqad, breastfed babies' nappies have very little smell. It's those on formula milk or solids that "stink".

[ganesh]

That's true pixie, but once they start solids as well, you definitely notice it!

[Sqad]

pixie.

\\\Sqad, breastfed babies' nappies have very little smell\\\

again, you may be correct, but not my experience........you say "very little smell"....but not "odourless."

Enough to affect the folks at the next table?

[Mamyalynne]

My experience of breastfeeding babies and nappies, is that they fill their nappies rather less often than formula fed babies too.

But a simple trip to the changing room and all is sweet once more.

But I did only feed two - not as many as Sqad has.

[pixie373]

Definitely not, sqad.

[pixie373]

... Not even those at the same table

[Sqad]

mamy

\\\\But a simple trip to the changing room and all is sweet once more.\\\

So what happens to the smell of a "smelly nappy" between the table and the "changing room?"............we all get a taste?

\\\\But I did only feed two - not as many as Sqad has. \\\\

Quite.

[pixie373]

Well, she is right, sqad. I breastfed 4, my sister bottlefed 3.

[sherrardk]

I breasted 5 - do I win a prize?

[Mamyalynne]

I think it was mentioned earlier that by the time a nappy starts to emanate a strong smell,it has been there a while or leaked (less common with modern nappies) - most Mum's know baby has passed stools before any smell begins.

They do things with their little faces and their body tenses or relaxes- you just know.

Or I did.

[ganesh]

ah but for how long? you don't get the prize for how many-LOL

[pixie373]

You do, sherr :-) or possibly award for the most antisocial? :-)

[Mamyalynne]

Sherradk I doubt it - Sqad is in the Guinness Book of Records for those he has breast fed.

[pixie373]

Mine were all until between 12 and 18 months, none of them would take a bottle. Maybe 5 years in total.