Nursing openly in a crowded outdoor market.

[Belle]

Reading the Hawaii thread made me ralize how much I love being in the northwest. I nursed my oldest until she weaned during dd2"s pregnancy at 32 months. My youngest is 7 months old and I've never had a negative comment.

A couple weeks ago we went to the Portland Saturday market. Its a large crowded outdoor marketplace where there are a couple thousand people on a typical weekend. I nursed my baby openly whole walking around. Nobody batted an eye. dd was weraring her leggings and I got a couple comments about her wearing cute leg warmers. Nothing about nursing. No rude comments or stares. Its just accepted as normal.

[Turkish Kate]

I did the same thing a few weeks ago at the big textile pazar here. A couple of thousand people at any given time, very conservative Muslim population, nothing but smiles and MashAllahs.

[sweetpeppers]

I live in NJ and I am always walking around stores nursing my son. Today I was at the mall scoring some free air conditioning and nursing him, and he's 15 months old. Nobody has ever said anything to me.

[uumomma]

we just moved to Portland OR from Laguna Ca.
and i was at the Saturday Market last week also, just sitting at a table with strangers, opening nursing the baby, and trying to eat my lunch.
she kept popping off to look at everything and people would just say "hi baby"
one said 'go back to your yummy lunch baby" with a sweet smile and giggle.
one of the table mates even opened my water!
I. heart. Portland!