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This is not even a question. Are you allowed to eat when you're hungry? Of course you are. Therefore, a child who is still breastfeeding should also be allowed to eat when they're hungry.

What is it exactly that offends people about public breastfeeding?

Is it the fact that someone is exposing themselves in public? Yet, I'm willing to bet you've watched a movie with nudity that clearly displayed a woman's breasts and in that instance you were surrounded by hundreds of people.

Is it because there are alternate options and you believe they should do something along the lines of using a breast pump before they leave the house and bring a bottle with them when they are in public? For some women, pumping does not work. I've known woman with expensive, top-of-the-line breast pumps that still take painful hours to get out enough milk to make their child a bottle. Not only that, but there are many breast fed children that will not take a bottle from their mothers when they are breast fed. Even is these women were willing to feed their child formula just while they were in public, they then may suffer through becoming painfully engorged and may even began to leak. I'm not saying that women should not use decorum, but they do not always have options.

Today's society is starting to accommodate breastfeeding women. At my mall, there are special nursing rooms with couches, TV's, bathrooms, and small curtained off rooms for privacy. If mother's are at a place with these kind of accommodations then there is no reason for them not to take advantage of them. However, most places still don't even have a bench in their restroom. Women have to sit on toilets, in stalls, feeding their children. This isn't right. It's not comfortable and it's not sanitary. If people are so intent on women not breastfeeding in public, then they should start campaigning for restaurants and clothing stores and grocery stores to put a comfortable chair or two in their bathrooms.

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