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If I were to breastfeed I would prefer to do it in a room for that, but I'm a very personal person.

And that's COMPLETELY understandable. It's your choice to feel that way. And I see nothing wrong with you wanting to breast feed in private.

What *I* take issue with, is all these kids in that thread saying all breast feeding mothers should be FORCED to do it completely out of view of anyone else. As if breast feeding mothers are some kind of lepers that shoudn't be seen at all.

I agree that a mother should try and be discrete (ie: not flashing their boobs around or having a neon sign above their heads that says, "Look at me! I'm breast feeding!"), but some of the suggestions these kids would have mothers try are ridiculous!

~Stay at home all the time...
~Make babies take bottles or formula no matter what...
~Go into some potentially nasty bathroom to feed...
~Magically know a 2 week old baby's "schedule"...
~Etc.

I just cannot stand the gross ignorance of those in that thread (and of Gaia ingeneral). Anyway, I feel breast feeding is a personal choice and how you chose to do it is also personal. I don't think a bunch of idiots should be able to make a mother feel bad or embarrassed for simply trying to do what her body was designed to do. Them boobs weren't put there for sex.... but you can't tell some of these kids that!

Had a woman tell me to take my baby to the bathroom to nurse her once. I asked her if she'd care to bring her dinner and join me. She of course refused because the bathroom is dirty. I glared at her and asked, "Then how can you expect me to do something to my daughter that you won't do yourself."

I'm a proud member of The Militant Breastfeeding Cult.

xd i was about to say "Yeah! me too! if anyone say something like that while i'm.. "... but i wont be... XD... if im feeding a kid in public it'll be a bottle..

This is a little off-topic, but when I was pregnant I rabidly read any books/websites/forums/articles I could find on all things Baby. Right from the start I was really keen to BF Theo, so I read a fair bit about it- and I came across this article in a magazine about different methods of having children (if you couldn't concieve naturally), and their pros and cons. There was IVF, adoption, surrogacy......anyway to get to the point redface apparently in Western parts of the world, optional surrogacy statistics are soaring. Rich women are paying other women to carry their children for them. Not because they can't, but because they don't want to be "fat" and have stretch marks, or get saggy breasts! these women pay inordinate sums of money to have a child without giving birth. They could use that money to adopt a child in need, but no, they want "their own", like a child is a possession like a car or a yacht.
Sorry for getting off topic- but I just think this whole taboo thing about birth and bodies and so on is absurd. Something that is so natural should not be such an issue.

I don't think you're off topic. It goes with the stupidity of people idea of this thread. I've noticed that the more *cough* well off *cough* people of this country see children as more of a status symbol. Not there to be loved and raised by their "parents", but to be seen for an extremely short ammount of time, shown off to their "parents" friends like one would show off a new necklace, and sent away. It's sickening! In come cases the children even end up calling their nannies mommy or daddy and not their "parents" because they're not around. They simply don't care. To those kinds of people, children are just another form of jewellery.

This I can't agree with 100%. Yes, breast milk is a very healthy thing to feed a child, but it doesn't completely mean that the child will be healthier. Both of my cousins were breastfed. Ricky had almost constant ear infections and Alesha had at least 5 a year for a while. Also whether a child will have asthma or not can't be completely based off of breastfeeding either. My son's father was breastfed and he has worse asthma than I do. Sometimes it's just up to the child whether there will be so many health problems. My asthma has more to do with the fact that my father smoked for the first 5 years of my life than whether my mom breastfed me or not. It's all circumstance.

Right I've got the shrits so here's my rant. I work as a teachers aide in the local high school here. I'm with the special ed faculty because the grl I'm funded to work with is there also.... Anyways.... For the last three weeks I have been chasing her father up to try and get her a laptop so she can communicate better with the other students/staff around her. (She has cerebral palsy so she has no speech and has to use a frame to walk around.) Her parents split up a few years ago and the long and the short of it is that this guy (who runs a very profitable business) has been wasting my time having to chase him up on the phone while I should be working, to try and organise his sorry a** to get down to the computer shop and look at this laptop I organised for him. Finally I get him pinned down so I wait i the shop for alf an hour until I have to leave and get back to my family.... He turns up and has a look at the computer 15 mins after I left.... Then I call him (again) the next day to find out that he's not sure if it's right for her because he doesn't think she can use it. The (expletive)doesn't even know what his daughter is capable of because he hasn't taken the time to (double expletive) learn to communicate to her.
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*at this point antonio's head explodes*