"Please don't breastfeed your baby here"

Re: "Please don't breastfeed your baby here"

• katmac17 member

  March 2014

  Wow - yikes!  Not sure what I would have said, but I look forward to getting a good canned response here should something like that happen!

  
  

  I usually use a cover when I NIP, but today was beautiful and I was outside at a park with my toddler.  No one else was around, and the cover was several feet away from the bench I was on in the stroller (I hate it anyway - it gets so hot!), so I just nursed my daughter with no cover in public for the first time.  One guy ended up strolling by, but said nothing, thank goodness.  I have to confess it was a bit liberating!

  
  

  
  

  
  
  

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• barista411 member

  March 2014

  I would like to think I would very calmly and assertively explain to her that it is my legal right to feed my child when and where I need to. Our LCs at the hospital even gave us a card with the law written out on it that we can show people. I am not overly assertive though so probably would have ignored her. I hate making scene especially with my kids around.

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• Kfran84 member

  March 2014

  I'd like to think I would say something like, "In the state of Oklahoma, I can breastfeed anywhere I damn well please. Your opinion of where and when I feed my son really means nothing to me, so kindly mind your own business, hag." But I'm not that eloquent in real life. Hell, it's taken me an hour to decide if I should cuss or not in this imaginary convo.
  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• rach1283 member

  March 2014

  I would like to think I would put her in her place, however, I probably would have looked at her in disbelief. I seriously would have had no words for her. Why do people feel the need to say things when they have no business opening their mouth?
  
  This makes me mad for you and your nanny who had to deal with this lady!

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• mmm50 member

  March 2014

  Honestly I would probably just have given her a death stare.  But if she caught me in a bad mood I would have let her have it along the lines of what PP mentioned.  

  

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• BabySuprise01 member

  March 2014

  I actually printed off cards with the WI law to hand out to people like this. Basically, I would hand them the card and say "it's the law, if you don't like it then leave". Thankfully I have never had to actually use them.

  

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• amberrrjade member

  March 2014

  I would have went off! Off! I'd be like can you not breathe here? Ugh. Bitch.

  BLAD reppin'

  
  

  
  

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• Dreamingmommy4 member

  March 2014

  I am currently making up responses in my mind that I would say, but it makes me so angry I can't even be eloquent in my own mind! I have no idea how I would actually react, but I would have made sure to say something along the lines of "mind your own business". I don't NIP often (I'm typically able to time out my errands around DDs schedule) but I have never run into people saying anything about my parenting/nursing etc. The Moby wrap definitely gets me a lot of stares (mostly of interest or curiosity. I wear her whenever I'm out and about) and has been a conversation starter, but that's about it.

      

  

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• rbtrumpet member

  March 2014

  shanbp said:

  In my head I would have told her off. In reality I probably would have turned red and not said anything. That is just ridiculous, though!

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  Although if she caught me in a really bad mood, I probably would have said "sorry, baby's hungry" and then started feeding right then and there.

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• Littlemama01 member

  March 2014

  I would have said "I feel sorry for your grand kids for having such an oldfashioned and out of date hag for a grandma". In a really sweet voice too, not too aggressively.

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• sands42 member

  March 2014

  I would definitely speak up for myself... If it ever happens I hope I am able to find the right words to make that person feel like the d-bag that they are!

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• DebateThis member

  March 2014

  You would've seen the hellfire and fury of the most pissed off mama bear ever if anyone said that to me. Stupid wench can keep her opinions on social propriety to herself, or she can get a real dose of impropriety when I read her the riot act in public. FFS.
  

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