Here are a few of my experiences so far breastfeeding my third:
- at an impromtu lunch at a nice chinese restaurant last week after a visit to a nearby playground, Nate woke up hungry. Since it was 11:30am the restaurant wasn't very busy yet, the 3 male waiters were standing at the other end of the room staring in our direction. So of course I whip it out regardless and feed him a little. In the midst of burping him while my husband and the other boys are washing their hands in the restroom, our young waiter comes over with our appetizer and starts commenting on what a big boy Nate is, and asking "how many pound?" etc. in broken english. He didn't seem to get it that I needed to continue feeding him and I felt odd doing it with a 20 something stranger standing next to me. So I waited until A.J. came running back into the room which scared him off, heheh. I guess I learned what my nursing-in-public "limit" is. LOL.
- On a really happy note, we left the older boys at home with my mother to go to an evening meeting and potluck for new parents at the cooperative preschool. There were 3 other babies there, 2 in "buckets", one in a sling who later ended up in her bucket seat. But every baby ended up being breastfed at some point throughout the night, and not at all discreetly, so I felt right at home! The boys start preschool there on tuesday. And their teachers came this week for home visits to meet them.
- at an impromtu lunch at a nice chinese restaurant last week after a visit to a nearby playground, Nate woke up hungry. Since it was 11:30am the restaurant wasn't very busy yet, the 3 male waiters were standing at the other end of the room staring in our direction. So of course I whip it out regardless and feed him a little. In the midst of burping him while my husband and the other boys are washing their hands in the restroom, our young waiter comes over with our appetizer and starts commenting on what a big boy Nate is, and asking "how many pound?" etc. in broken english. He didn't seem to get it that I needed to continue feeding him and I felt odd doing it with a 20 something stranger standing next to me. So I waited until A.J. came running back into the room which scared him off, heheh. I guess I learned what my nursing-in-public "limit" is. LOL.
- On a really happy note, we left the older boys at home with my mother to go to an evening meeting and potluck for new parents at the cooperative preschool. There were 3 other babies there, 2 in "buckets", one in a sling who later ended up in her bucket seat. But every baby ended up being breastfed at some point throughout the night, and not at all discreetly, so I felt right at home! The boys start preschool there on tuesday. And their teachers came this week for home visits to meet them.
I think that my dh is more embarrassed than I am when I just sit down and nurse ds in public. So far I have nursed in the waiting room at the chiroprators, in a resturant, on a picnic bench at the state park, and all the time in my van with the doors open so the air comes in. Yesterday, I was sitting at the gas station nursing with the doo r open and not at all covered up and 3 guys get out of their garbage truck and walked past. They were all gawking like a bunch of schoolboys and surprisingly I didn't care.
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