Where do you BF?

Emma's thread got me thinking about this. 

In the early days I was really self conscious about feeding in public and I'd either use mothers rooms or, if these weren't available, I'd feed in my car.  I was ok feeding at peoples houses but would often arrange a blanket to conceal everything. 

By 8 wks I no longer cared.  If my baby wanted to be fed she would be ...wherever I was.  I fed in foodcourts, at cafes, on buses, at the mall, at the soccor field while watching my niece and nephew play and even got a free ride on the train because the conductor was too embarrassed to look at me while I was feeding.

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I found that the baby's head covers most of the breast and the most important thing to me was ensuring my post-preggy belly was covered, not my breasts.

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my girl gets distracted very easily tried feeding her at coffee group today and she would not have a bar of it :( hope it was a just a once off.

I have rather large breasts so even if I am around people I know I try not to expose them too much.... so I usually try to wear lose fitting tops.

In the beginning I would breastfeed anywhere... at cafes, church, people's houses - whereever I needed to. I was lucky though that I had quite a few friends and ladies from church would were comfortable feeding whereever, so that made me feel comfortable too. I always covered up with a cloth nappy and was as discreet as possible (at church I'd move to sit at the back).

I can't do that as easily now though - the boy gets too distracted!   So sometimes I'll go into another room or feed in the car, just cos otherwise he doesn't always feed properly.

Now instead of a cloth nappy I just have my hand there ready to cover my boob when he pulls away to look around. I always wear breastfeeding singlets under my normal tops cos then I know my flabby tummy and hips won't show! And lol yeah worrying more about exposing them! But as far as exposing my boob - My outer top comes up and covers the top part, the singlet covers the bottom part, and my bubba's head covers the rest! Honestly I've seen more boob on women who are wearing low cut tops...

I started out BF in front of everyone from the first week... but from then it went downhill. Chloe just latched on and off and on and off so my nipples would constantly be displayed to the world, and often milk spraying around too. So I wasn't really comfortable breastfeeding unless I was at home or at a friend's place that was already a mother. But I got one of those cloth cover things and they were awesome for us as it hid Chloe latching on and off and attracting all this attention to my stretch-mark-covered boobs spraying milk everywhere. Which I was a bit uncomfortable revealing to the world!! Lol.

I always try to breastfeed at home, this is only because I can tandem feed at home so takes half the time. They both take about 20mins to feed. Plus I'm using nipple shields so not very discreet in public

Anywhere and everywhere. Although these days my boy gets easily distracted so if there's a quiet option, I'll take that.

I Bf pretty much anywhere, if I feel the need to be a bit more discreet then I normally have a muslim (sp?) wrap to chuck over that side. Like a few I was very conscious with DS1 but got over that once I'd got the hang of it (those first few weeks I simply couldn't be discrete it was a big enough challenge to bf)

I feed wherever I need to, today I fed Chiara at the back of church during a funeral, and at a cafe where we were having breakfast, and when the gremlins were tiny I once sat on the steps outside the bank and fed one, and fed the other walking round the Warehouse. With Maya it took about 6 weeks for me to be confident enough to feed without a pillow but once we had the hang of it I fed her where I needed to.

I can't feed discreetly, my boobs are way too big for that, and the smaller the baby the less discreet it is. I do wear a long singlet that covers my back so it's not exposed, I leave pull it down and my top up so my belly and back are covered.

But I didn't think twice about bottlefeeding in public so why should breastfeeding be any different?

I also feed anywhere/anytime. I am discreet and that's what I feel comfortable with.