# breastfeeding in public. OK or icky? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 10, 2002, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breastfeeding-in-public-ok-or-icky/118295 "2002-07-10T20:26:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![WV\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@WV\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WV_Woman)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2002, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breastfeeding-in-public-ok-or-icky/118295/61 "2002-07-14T01:02:03Z")
I’d think the movie theater thing would be easy. It’s dark anyway. Who would bring their baby to a movie theater or a university lecture, though? ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2002, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breastfeeding-in-public-ok-or-icky/118295/62 "2002-07-14T02:35:36Z")
In my case I think breast feeding in public would be icky. I mean, I’m in my 30’s now and my mother is in her 60’s. I just think that would be weird. People don’t want to see that shit. ---
**Author:** ![Cessandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cessandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cessandra)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2002, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breastfeeding-in-public-ok-or-icky/118295/63 "2002-07-14T03:46:58Z")
I dunno, Seven. I plan on breastfeeding my son right on into his 40s! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2002, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breastfeeding-in-public-ok-or-icky/118295/64 "2002-07-14T04:00:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cessandra \* > \*\ ***jjimm** , the woman at your wedding did commit a terrible faux pas, IMHO. But it wasn’t breastfeeding her baby during your wedding; it was _bringing_ her baby to your wedding after being specifically asked not to. \*\* I’ll go on record as considering it a greater faux pas to invite a woman with a nursing infant to your wedding without her child. ---
**Author:** ![Cessandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cessandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cessandra)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2002, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breastfeeding-in-public-ok-or-icky/118295/65 "2002-07-14T04:35:15Z")
Why, tlw? If it was an adults-only affair, should she be excluded completely? Or did the bride and groom have no right to an adults-only wedding? The baby’s mother certainly has the right to decline the invitation if she can’t bear to be away from her child for even a few hours, but what right has she to bring along an unwelcome child? Since the birth of my son I have been without him on maybe three occassions. For these times I pumped enough milk to get him by and fed him immediately before leaving and upon returning. It worked for me. Of course, she doesn’t _have_ to do that, she has other options. But I don’t see bringing the baby with her to the wedding as one of them. ---
**Author:** ![QueenAl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/d26b3c/32.png) [@QueenAl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QueenAl)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2002, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breastfeeding-in-public-ok-or-icky/118295/66 "2002-07-14T09:55:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by WV\_Woman \* > \*\*Who would bring their baby to a movie theater or a university lecture, though? \*\* _guilty look_ I’ve done both. When my daughter was really tiny, she fed constantly, and the only way for me to go watch a movie (which I really wanted to see) was to take her with me. So her first movie was The Truman Show at 4 weeks of age (and I doubt anyone in the cinema realised she was there). I stopped taking her once she was bigger and wrigglier, though. The university lecture was because I lived a long way from my college while on a PhD (which I eventually had to give up because of the travelling :/), and she was too young for most childcare. Again, I doubt anyone noticed. Very young babies, too young to crawl off at least, really can be quite unobtrusive. ---
**Author:** ![WV\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@WV\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WV_Woman)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2002, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breastfeeding-in-public-ok-or-icky/118295/67 "2002-07-14T17:10:45Z")
Ahh gotcha. The college I went to had a strict no-kids-in-the-lecture policy so I guess that’s why I couldn’t fathom taking a kid to school with ya. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breastfeeding-in-public-ok-or-icky/118295.md?page=3)