Is this normal?

[Michelle]

Ok, so I don't go to chain restaurants that often, so I don't know if this happens a lot, but..... I was at Outback Steakhouse tonight and this couple (I'd say in their late 30's) and their 5 or so year old son were sitting in their booth diagonal from us. The wife had this blanket thing over her one shoulder and across her lap. She kept looking under it. This went on for about 10-15 minutes before I realized she had a newborn breastfeeding under the blanket! IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RESTAURANT! Then she proceeded to switch breasts and put the blanket over the other shoulder. The baby couldn't have been more than 2 weeks old. I was totally grossed out!! DO PEOPLE DO THIS IN RESTAURANTS???????????

[cmyX6go]

I was out for dinner with a group a few years back and a friend of a friend did it at the table. It was my first experience with it and I felt very uncomfortable. The opinions are extreme on both sides. There are those like us who don't feel it is appropriate in public, and then there are those that feel it is a natural and beautiful fact of life. The later are offended that we don't get it.

[pseto]

That was disgusting!!! Was she good looking though?

[Michelle]

NO! I'd bet $1,000 she drives a mini-van, too.

[JV]

Was it skim milk or vitamin D in them titties?

JV

[matt20043.0]

It would not bother me, but I would look so maybe I could catch a glimpse when she changes breasts

[vinuneuro]

[AutoXer]

Maybe we are too liberal in this part of the country. But I see it all the time, no big deal. Of course we get to see lots of other worse stuff too, so we get insensitive to it.

When women breast feed in public in SF, they don't even get a second look

[Michelle]

I don't know. At the dinner table of a restaurant is just beyond me. She had the baby sucking on her titty as she was eating her salad and carrying on conversations with her husband and son like nothing was going on. Just strange.

[PersonaNonGrata]

I think it's a matter of mutual respect. I can understand a woman's need to do that and not wanting to hide in some smelly washroom to do it but I can also understand that she should be considerate of others. There are some women who think it is her right to whip out her udder and let Junior start sucking like Romulus and Remus, everyone be damned. I think that is an inconsiderate attitude and I don't agree with that degree of openess and the expectation that everyone else conform their behavior and attitude to hers. However, if a woman is trying to be subtle and not being too overt about it then I would just turn away and let her do her thing.

It's like blowing your nose or sneezing. If you just let fly with the snot and honk like a goose then people will think it's gross. But if you try to be considerate about it and politely do your thing, then that's cool.

Aw what the heck, just show me the titties.