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aravain -> RE: Breastfeeding, taboo or not (6/17/2009 3:30:56 AM)
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I *have* eaten in the restroom before (a requirement once, at the Denny's where I worked, while the staff room was being restored), as well as drunk (both out of glasses and bottles).
Unless you're eating off the floor (EDIT: without a plate, mind), or eating/drinking out of the sink/toilet, what's the problem with eating in a restroom (beyond the lack of seating/table space)?
I'm willing to bet a hungry baby doesn't care about where it's being fed... it cares THAT it's being fed, so why should that even be taken in consideration? They don't even have the mental faculties to know that you have left a room for a *different* one until much later.
Maybe it's just my status as a "Big Guy (tm)" but is there anyone that argument's worked on... EVER? I mean, really; if you're hungry, you don't care where you're eating. That's been my experience, at least. You mentioned it earlier in the thread, and it didn't seem to sway ANYONE then, either.
When I was nursed (according to Mom, I don't remember it [:D]) I was usually in private. Mom didn't like to do it in public. She would go into restrooms to do it. She would go into corners of stores/rooms if they didn't *have* restrooms just to provide herself with a semi-private place. It wasn't a problem with my little brother, he was deathly allergic to her milk (and then to the first type of formula they gave 'im). Having been in places where I've *witnessed* women nursing (discreetly, mind, not any of this 'tit-hanging' thing) with my mother (and other women her age) their response is generally the same...
"That's disgusting, why is she doing that in public?"
And I agree with it... probably 'cause my momma raised me to be her son ;) But it's peculiar that her female friends mostly agree, I suppose?
My mother would not *LET* my cousin nurse in public at a party at our house. She got ready to do that, shot a look at my father, who went and whispered in her ear. She turned red and went inside into a private room.
To me, breastfeeding falls under the same area as diaper changing, which should ALSO not be done in public (though, apparently, some people don't think so, as evidenced by my cousin who once changed her now-middle son in the middle of a mall. I was mortified and walked far enough away that it wouldn't seem like I was with the group; she said that ALL of her friends did it that way). No matter HOW you look at it, it's an exchange of bodily fluids from one place to another, by my reckoning, even if one of the parties is drinking/eating it ;)
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