[preciousjeni]

Originally Posted by ISUKappa

It's not like a 4-star restaurant. When your baby is hungry and crying and wants to eat *NOW* you don't wait to shower or "clean yourself off", you unhook your nursing bra and latch your baby on, preferably discreetly. The baby gets - at max - a 3" area of the breast, areola and nipple. That's not a very large area to worry about keeping clean.

There's no good solution. If you nurse in public, people are going to get upset. If you don't nurse and your baby is crying because it's hungry, people are going to get upset. And you can't simply say "arrange your schedule to insure you're home to breastfeed." The whole process of feeding a baby can take anywhere from 10-60 minutes and an hour later, you have to start the whole thing over again. A new mother needs to get out of the house once in a while and there's no way you can get the baby ready, get the diaper bag ready, get yourself ready, strap him/her into the carseat, go to the grocery store or Target and do all your shopping in that short of time.

I hate to pull this card because I think it's a cheap excuse most of the time, but it's really one of those things where if you haven't BTDT, you really have no idea what it's like.

This is exactly what I've been thinking through this thread. Thanks for saying it.