Originally Posted by
Flyingmama
And you would be wrong. Forty years ago we had no choice. Whipping out a breast in public was simply not done, baby or no baby, and could well result in a charge of indecent exposure. I managed it on a number of transAtlantic flights with careful preparation. Was my baby happy about it? Probably not, but she survived. And I didn't wind up in jail.
Forty years ago, it wasn’t a rare sight to see public nursing of babies in Muslim-majority areas of South and Central Asia. And in India, I have seen too many a woman nurse a baby publicly while begging; having the baby and saying they needed money for food in order to be able to better nurse the baby was a rather common ploy by beggars around higher end marketplaces.