BWI - Breastfeeding While Intoxicated

I think breast feeding in public WITH the breast EXPOSED is WRONG. I seen nothing wrong with a baby being fed in public IF the mother has the decency to lightly cover the feeding child with a little blanket... There are plenty of those pretty little light weight blankies to use... Heck I've seen nice used ones at yard sales for only 25Cents!

I will soon have a rental house and I will not rent to smokers, because I plan to one day live in that house! The cost of removing the nicotine stains and residue from the walls is high and a lot of work if you plan to do it yourself. (it's called Damage!) You can't just paint over that stuff ...it keeps coming thru. Many Many people are allergic to that.

When you rent an apartment...You are renting the USE of anothers property.. It's not "your own". It will not be "your own" unless you are buying and and have gotten the loan from the bank!

You really think breastfeeding in public is wrong ? Do you think bottle feeding an infant in public is wrong ? You do realize that the nipple on the end of a bottle is make to look and feel like a real nipple... You do know that breastfeeding in normal, while giving a baby a rubber nipple to drink a fabricated powdered source is strange... WHEN DID BREASTFEEDING A CHILD BECOME WRONG ! WHAT DO YOU THINK THEY ARE MADE TO DO !

How does somebody breastfeeding their child in public offend you??? I can't think of anything more natural, OHHHHH! someone might see a nipple!!!! lemme guess......religious right

We've been raised in a society that believes nudity and sex is wrong and dirty, of course people are going to think breastfeeding is wrong. Now I'm not a religious right at all, and I'm 16 so I havent had a kid so maybe I dont get it. But I actually do get offended when people breastfeed in public, because everytime I see a woman do it, its at a resturant (the casual kind) or a cafe and they dont cover the baby up with a blanket. I would be perfectly fine with it if they covered the baby while at a resturant. One time I was getting my hair cut and dyed and the woman waiting on the reception area of the hair salon breastfed her child and then sat him on their new leather couch and changed his poopy diaper right there. Its offensive.

i am apalled to see you say it is wrong for a woman to nurse in public! Do you have the right to eat in public? Then so does the baby! Breastfeeding is the right way of feeding a baby!! Breastfeeding is the way that God designed! Breastmilk is the best thing in the world for the baby. It is always the right temperature and never runs out! A mother should never have to pump out her milk just because you don't want to see it! I personally am offended to see a baby eating from an artificial nipple! As a father, i am thrilled that my wife nurses my kids. I would feel sorry for anyone who tries to degrade her for doing what is the natural and best thing for my kids! If you don't want to see anything, then look away! the baby shouldn't have to ever have to suffer just to make you happy!

And on another note, the mom that got drunk before feeding her baby is nothing but trash! first off, she is selfish to have brought her child into a bar, but even more selfish to have essentially gotten her child drunk!

Breastfeeding an infant is a perfectly natural thing for a body to do. So is making a bowel movement. So, if it is okay for a woman to whip out her left tit for feeding purposes ... is it okay for me to drop trousers in the same place and take a dump? What if I cover my heinie with a blanket, is that better? It's all natural right? What goes in must come out .... it's the cycle of digestion. But, I don't want to see another woman's breast in public any more than she wants to see my natural "leftovers" from eating in public. Am I right?
Do it privately .... for everybody's sake!

No one should drink alcohol while nursing thats a fact but all this bull coming from people about not nursing your child in public etc is really stupid. So either we dont nurse our children or we stay chained to the house untill they are weened? Get a grip. Stop looking at breasts as your funbags and realize that this is what they were ment to do. Drs tell us not to go from bottle to breast , bottle to breast because since the milk flows drifferently from each you run the risk of tummy troubles in your baby andother things they shouldnt have to deal with. Just stop the nonsence about the worlds most wholesome act and get your mind out of the gutter. Its ok to see some old cougar in a short skirt or some teen with tight clothes and muffin top but not the top of a breast with a baby attatched to it? GET A SERIOUS GRIP!

There is nothing wrong with feeding you're baby in public BREASTFEEDING in public is fine, just stay decent while you are doing it;; It is not hard to do. I breastfed both my girls, and while I was grocery shopping too. nobody was the wiser.

teltech54 - I totally agree, but I think it would more likely be 75% of people who shouldn't be allowed to have children. Personally, I think birth control should be in all the drinking water in America, and if someone wants to get pregnant they have to apply for the life-time responsibility, be evaluated as safe and sensible future parents - both mentally and morally (not in a religious way), prove you can financially afford to care for and raise a child, take required classes on health while pregnant, parenting skills, basic child care and safety - and pass these with flying colors. If you pass, you receive a license to become a parent and are given a drug to counteract the universal birthcontrol. I mean, you have to take tests to graduate from high school, take Driver's Ed. and a test to get a license to drive a deadly vehicle - at age 16!, and right now if you can have sex you can have a baby.

Sally & Melissa: I agree, the larger factor here is taking a 3 week old infant out to a bar so you can booze it up - I think that is appalling enough to take public-breastfeeding out of the picture in this story. I can't believe the bartenders & friends allowed her to drink, but of course no one ever steps in to slap someone upside the head when they're being an idiot.

As for breastfeeding in public, Angelina, those mothers aren't interested in "rip it out just any ol' time" or titillating those who might catch a glimpse of their breast or nipple, they are concerned with providing their child with the best possible care and nutrition. If you're so worried about public nudity, start a campaign against "Girls Gone Wild". And most women do breastfeed in public as discretely as possible, using blankies or cloths to cover up. As for feeding the child in private, how many public establishments have any such accomodations?! It's hard enough for working women to get a private place at their job to breast pump as they need to. The restroom is just unsanitary and gross, and do you expect a mother to leave her job, a meeting, a party, shopping, or whatever to drive home with a shrieking, hungry baby so she can breastfeed in private?!

Simzee and everyone else who comments on seeing naked bits in public: have you ever been to a rated R movie? Be honest. There they are, larger than life, in digitally remastered color, NAKED BITS! OMG! Have you been to the beach lately? Most bikinis wouldn't make a useful kleenex, again - Girls Gone Wild, wet tee-shirt contests, etc... If you don't want to see public nudity, don't stare at it getting angry (and catching an eyeful) - avert your eyes or discretely move away until they are out of your sight. Problem solved with no fuss involved. Or you could do something useful like promoting private breastfeeding booths in public locations instead of being all offended.

Again, the bigger picture here is that woman endangering her baby by drinking, getting drunk, and passing alcohol to her baby through her breast milk, not breastfeeding in public.

DITO!! I think everyone should be sterilized at birth and only be able to have the procedure reversed once they have matured to a certain age and have passed a test on raising children. There should be questions like, should you drink and breastfeed, should you let your children do drugs, should you DO drugs with your children? I only add those specific questions b/c I know stupid parents who have done these things. Another one, which is more important: cigarettes for you or diapers for you baby? I swear! I have 3 children and breastfed all of them (I am currently breastfeeding the 3rd.) It is amazing to me that "critics" of breastfeeding say it shouldn't be done if public and women should just formula feed. I swear. Maybe they should read the research. They are probably ignorant b/c they WEREN'T breastfed!!!

Are you kidding me? Do you eat when your out of your house? When you get hungry do you go to a restaurant? Or do you pack your lunch wherever you go? Here's a simple solution, if you don't want to watch a baby doing the most natural thing ON EARTH which is nursing, then turn away, it's as simple as that. No one thinks it's gross when they see other people eating a salad or a sandwich do they? It is no difference in seeing a baby nursing from her mother. Oh and your idea of pumping whenever you have to go out? Some mothers don't have the ability to pump for whatever reason, so what should they do, starve the kid or never go out of the house again?

You morons! Pumping doesn't work that way. At least not for me. I nursed both of my children and they get used to you. Neither one of them wanted any fake nipple. Breasts were MADE for nursing. Not for some perverted people. Get a life you losers!

To:Tina and Sue I just think breastfeeding a child should be done at home or or try and pump milk out so u have enough for the trip . I mean your breast is a private parts of our body and we should keep them cover at all times and not exposed them for the world to c we might as well walk around naked or with no bra on and just let our tits fly around . That would be gross . U should not rip it out just any ol' time and say oh my kid is hungry and i have to feed him and her right thire on the spot while u r enjoying someone conversation and eating and enjoying yourself u should excuse yourself from the table and go feed in private don't make other ppl gross out nobody wants to c other ppl private parts and iam sure u do not want to c mine. if i had a child i do the nice and proper thing and go to a restroom or go home and feed my child. not out in public. Eating is a totally different thing.

I really cant believe that you think breastfeeding in public is so bad. when did something so natural become so bad. people like u need to know that there are plenty of us breastfeeding in public and u dont even know it.

To Angelia:
You think its, "gross" to breastfeed in public , but have no problem using the derogatory term tits on a public message board? If that isn't being a hypocrite I don't know what is?