Public displays of Brestfeeding

I nursed both my girls. In public and at home and we actually had a friend with the audicaty to tell me when HE came to MY house that I needed to go into a different room to "do that" because it made him uncomfortable. I looked at him and told him exactly what I thought about his opinion and reminded him that he knew that I nurse and that he still decided to come over knowing that he might end up seeing me at a time when the baby might get hungry. Funny, he never brought it up again. I am all for feeding a hungry baby no matter which method you use but I have been in Walmart and told by people that worked there when asked if there was a place I could go to nurse my baby that I had to go and sit on a toilet and nurse because "that's gross and no one wants to have to see you do that". I was really nice and didn't smack her like I wanted to. I then asked if she was on break soon and suggested that she eat her lunch with us in the bathroom. Boy that shut her up lol. Come to find out almost 2 years later that you are supposed to be able to nurse in the changing area. I think that when this one is born and I get nasty comments and looks I am simply going to hand them the baby and tell them to calm it down or shut up and let me feed him/her. They don't complain about people feeding babies with bottles in public so what is the big deal about nursing (which is how we were designed to feed babies) a baby if you are covered?

I nurse my son since birth and initially I'm not very comfortable when doing it in public but sometimes there's just no time to seek out a private place to do it so I just have to do it as discreetly as possible.

I think a mother should do what she feels comfortable with. I personally carried a recieving blanket with me to cover up with.

Bre@st is best now matter what. If someone is upset, then too bad. Whatever the MOM is comfortable with it the next best thing. I didn't seek out privacy (hiding in some icky room). I don't think any other MOM should either.