What?! Dude... why is the average voter response 6.3? Someone is either really crazy, or they're just not reading it right.

Honestly... I'm pretty sure you don't want to do it much more than a year... and as far as the extreme breastfeeding crowd goes... the LAST thing I'm sure you'd want for your kids is to have them actually REMEMBER being breast-fed.

I can't possibly understand what could be going through the mind of that lady (I had the volume off, but I doubt it was anything that really made any logical sense).

One could only assume how this will mess them up in the future. There's only been a rare number of times that I've accidentally walked in on my parents doing stuff... and it's just not something you want to remember. That kid definitely remembers everything... that's messed up... damn... sick people...

Why are people so messed up, why can't people just be normal? Why do they always have to do everything different and weird? Maybe that lady is just doing this for the "shock" factor. I bet she was the one who called in to 20/20 too...

I'm sure PETA TODD didn't do that...

do it as long as you want just don't do it in public restaurants when and where I'm trying to eat

Hopefully you'll never be seated near me in a restaurant then.  Because I can and will breastfeed anywhere my child is hungry and the law backs me up on this.

I don't have a problem with it... but if he / she is old enough to talk... I may have to step in and start making some comments.

FWIW, Karen started weaning at a year both times...

The lady in that video is crazy.  The "It tastes like vanilla ice cream" comment is going to haunt me for the rest of my life. 

you can go to the bathroom and do it there too out of something called courtesy

it's not always a question of legality.  sheesh.

You can eat your lunch there just as well.  Personally I don't care to eat where other people are pooping, and I won't make my child do it either.  There's a reason it's legally protected, because of ignorant people like you.

Oh man... this reminded me of a TV show I used to watch with Erica. It was a comedy, but I honestly don't remember... hmm... I think it was called "Testees". It was the show where those two guys worked as Test Dummies for a test lab. Anyway, their apartment neighbor worked at a restaurant, and was always coming up with marketing gimmicks...

He found this massive public restroom, and turned it into an ultra-exclusive steakhouse. There were waiting lists, and famous people were all eating there. The funny part is that it remained a restroom too, so there was a wall of urinals, and a wall of bathroom stalls. In the large open area, they had a bunch of tables set up with white tablecloth, and white glove waiters and waitresses, and the steaks were being cooked on the open wall. As people were eating their steaks (etc), people were in the stalls farting and dropping loads. It was pretty hilarious.

It makes fun of, obviously, the fact that people will pretty much go anywhere, to any club or restaurant simply because it's thought of as "exclusive". I'm the ass of this joke too because I was one of the dumb-asses that went to Barton G's on valentines day and blew $270 bucks on a single dinner.

Thankfully, my wife realized how lame this was, and we usually celebrate valentines day the day before or after... it's not considered cheap, just smart.

Also... I'm always totally enamoured with this video... it's hilarious:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzO1mCAVyMw

if you won't go to the bathroom out of courtesy how about  you go to your car or go outside or anywhere?  what makes you think people want to eat where your baby is pooping?  people who bring babies to restaurants are just plain annoying and now you're proving it.  the law also protects people who bring infants to movie theaters.  does that make it any less rude?  It's just do damn distracting to eat when that's going on (disgusting).  i'm not a cow. I don't want to taste my food twice.

So is your issue breastfeeding in public or babies being in public at all?

people who bring babies to restaurants are just plain annoying and now you're proving it. 

This is your opinion.

the law also protects people who bring infants to movie theaters.  does that make it any less rude?

I'd really like to see the law that specifically states this.

It's just do damn distracting to eat when that's going on

If that's the case I don't know how you manage to eat in public at all.

Out of courtesy,  wouldn't ever bring my baby to a movie, or a non-casual restaurant. However, I have no problem bringing my daughter to a casual restaurant that's not intimate or formal. Her squeals of happyness shouldn't be any more distracting than all the other conversations and loud noise going on.

I don't think you really meant the argument to go that way?

As for breastfeeding, I'm sure women have the right, but I doubt that most women would want to do it right out in public for the fact that you'd probably have creepy dudes trying to look at boobs. For example, if your in a restaurant, I doubt a mom would pick the table in the middle as apposed to maybe a secluded seat in the far corner...

i definitely didn't mean for the argument to go that way, todd.  I was merely pointing out that just because something is legal that doesn't make it not rude.  I have babies of my own.  while i enjoy seeing my kids have fun, i wouldn't take them to a movie on friday night because that would be distracting.  do i have the legal right to do so?  of course.  that's not the point though.  it' would be distracting to those around me and i should be courteous enough to not go out to the movie or find a baby sitter. 

as far as brest-feeding goes, many people do not mind seeing it in public but obviously many people do.  just because you have the legal right to do so, does not mean courtesy goes out the window.  why don't people just pump the milk into a bottle and use the bottle when they go out? no one would mind that and I have an extra pump if pickle wants it.  the point is there are many alternatives to doing it in the open.  i feel like those who do do it in the open are only doing it to exercise a right and make a point.  obviously i was right

Personally I just stopped breastfeeding at my last birthday! I am 40 now and feel that it is time to move on. I didn't see an option for 40 on the survey?! WTF  this is unfair to the lifetime breastfeeders like myself. First I'm discriminated against for being Jewish and now this? I can't get a break.

I have also tried breastfeeding on dozens of women, milk doesn't always come out, but it is quite entertaining to try....for both of us. I can post a manual for anyone who would like to see it. I have been making a breast feeding Journal for years!!

I must say however, that I usually do it in private. Sometimes at the movies, but NEVER in a crowded resteraunt!!

And finally, I am available for lessons if there are any women out there that would like a professional instructor. I would need a few sessions with you first before bringing in your breast feeder for one on one instructional classes with you two.

DA, yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking. Erica doesn't breast feed, but I don't think she would personally do it in public just becasue, like you say, she could easily put it in a bottle, and she's not big on whipping out her boobs in public. Honestly, sometimes I have to tell her to dress more risque because she doesn't show enough and sometimes I like to see what's going on. Regardless of that... I know she wouldn't be a fan of doing it in public... but if you're in a situation where you didn't have time to fill a bottle or whatever, and the baby is screaming... you don't really have a choice I think...

I guess maybe some people think putting it in a bottle is unnecessary work.. I mean, if you're carrying them around, and the "containers" are made to perform the task anyway... then I guess they don't see the problem.

I'm always really weird about being too disruptive too... so we actually avoid places where it might be too intimate of a place for us to have our bubbly daughter.

Trev! You've got to remember, if you ever plan on running for City Comission... posts like these will come back and bite you in the butt!

Please hook a breast pump up to your nipples and then say that you can "easily" put it in a bottle.  Pumping is time consuming and uncomfortable.  Besides the fact that introducing bottles too early can interfere with the breastfeeding relationship.  And some babies refuse to take bottles, especially from their mothers. There is an easy solution if you don't want to see women breastfeeding in public...DON'T LOOK. 

I can tell you that I'm showing more boob right now in the tank top I'm wearing than you would be able to see when I'm feeding my child.

I think this link does a good job of arguing my point. 

And then I'm done, because it's a moot point.  The law is on my side, and I'm not going to inconvenience myself or my child for your issues.

Oh and Trev, you crack me up.

You could also get one of these....

what a stupid link.  so if I like models' boobs when they're selling me beer and guitars that means I must also like boobs when they're discharging the bodily fluid of some ugly woman as a baby licks it up while I'm trying to eat?  count me out.

my wife, who has actually used a breast pump, says they're not really uncomfortable and only women who want to exercise a right and make a point  use that as an excuse to not use one.

"some ugly woman" is generic and does not indicate that anyone in this discussion is ugly

Another interesting issue we could come up with which I think will garner a lot of additional anger, is the idea of diabetics. I feel bad for poor kids who grow up with diabetes... but I knew a family who's kids were diabetics and had to have insulin shots every now and then.

I don't know the process or the reasoning, but whenever they would go out to dinner, they had to give the kids a shot while in the restaurant at the table. They had this whole kit with needles and bottles and whatever. People sitting around them would always get really upset and pissed off.

In this case, it's definitely gross... but I'm willing to overlook it even if it's displeasing for me, simply because I feel really bad for the kids and anything "I" can do to make their lives easier (because they can't really help it) then I'm all for it. If it means just not making a face... I'm cool with that.