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I'm not sure when "weird" became the stigma around feeding baby, but its unfortunate. My wife and I have a 3 month old, and if our baby is hungry - she breast feeds him. (Mind you she is very conservative about the whole process). Its amazing the people that give strange looks in a restaurant, after all everyone else is eating. Why can't our son?

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Because we don't live in a culture that mandates you hide your fork and plate when they aren't being used to eat with. Imagine a culture where forks are taboo and often times illegal to be shown in public, except when you eat and where most people don't use forks. Where giving a child a picture of a fork (that isn't being used to eat with) is a significant social social breach that will get you hated and labeled for years and perhaps even a crime. Use of a fork in public in such a situation would get weird looks.

In fact, even imagining such a society seems absurd, but that is how our current culture is (at least where I've lived at).

I'm with you. Most natural thing in the world.

But of course the issue is, partially disrobing in public. We all know this. And the more mothers respond by not breastfeeding in public, the less the public sees it and the less they are inured to the sight. So the taboo gets stronger.

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