In article >,
Dave Smith > wrote:

> Jenny wrote:
>
>
> > I was only commenting on the "it is a natural thing and it really does not
> > bother me" portion of the statement. I never, ever said to take the baby
> > to
> > the restroom to feed it.
> > Discretion should be used, and a little proper planning in the timing of
> > things.
>
> True. Discretion is a good idea. For me, that means sitting down in a
> quiet area.

Don't make me laugh, Dave. We are talking about a supermarket checkout
line. The last thing that stores want is people sitting down. My
father is 93 and has two artificial knees. He needs to sit down and
rest his legs. The only place I remember in a store where you can sit
is in the shoe sales. There is very seldom any other place. My local
store used to have a hard bench in the very front of the store, for
people who were waiting for a ride (taxi or someone they had called).
It was the noisiest and least discrete area of the store.

> > It really is NOT a good idea for a mother who is nursing her baby to make
> > an
> > all-day adventure away from home or facilities conducive for breast
> > feeding.
>
> All day adventures are difficult when you have to worry about warming up
> a bottle. I would think that breast feeding would make such ventures a
> little more manageable for mother and child.

Sounds like you and I agree that mom and baby should stay at home all
the time to make things a little more "comfortable" for Jenny.

> > Standing in a checkout line (as in the original example, not yours) breast
> > feeding surely slows down the line as much as a customer on a cell phone,
> > or
> > digging to find which credit card still has enough left on it for the
> > purchase. Everybody always bitches about these things holding up the line
> > as being very rude and being inappropriate, so why wouldn't breast feeding
> > and holding up the line?
>
> I have to admit that breast feeding might hold up a check out line. I
> have never seen it. I must have missed a post where someone reported
> seeing it.

I don't remember seeing it either, although I wouldn't remember if I
had. I would guess it is pretty rare, unlike people on cell phones.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA