Question: Breast milk is a main source of baby nutrition but it is still a bodily fluid capable of transmitting disease?
(Posted by: Beefy Cheeks on 2010-01-20 13:09:50)
So please, for all you mothers... when you decide to breastfeed in public think about how unsanitary you are being to everyone else. If I sit at the table after you, and some of your milk is on the table I could come in contact with your milk and thats NOT sanitary !!! Why can't you just bring a bottle or breastfeed in the bathroom / changing room in private? Why is that so hard to do? I won't eat in the bathroom, because I chose to go to a restaurant and eat in public. Thats what I am paying for, to sit at a sanitary table and eat. I'm not paying to watch your breast or listen to your screaming child. Um... because your child is not paying for a meal and to sit at a table there. I am. I am paying to sit down and eat a dinner at a restaurant. You child isn't. Thats why.
First off, a mother who has Aids obviously will not breastfeed the baby. Moms who breastfeed have healthy milk. If you don't want to have contact with the dirty table, then go sit somewhere else. If you are really offended my mothers who breastfeed in public, then just walk away. End of it.
Posted by: Noah's Mommy & Marine Wife on 2010-01-20, 13:14:22
Why don't you go eat in the bathroom if you're that offended by it?
Posted by: Photogirl on 2010-01-20, 13:15:07
Because its our right to breastfeed anywhere we feel like it... and have never gotten any on a public table!
Posted by: threenorns on 2010-01-20, 13:16:35
Excuse me, but your ignorance is showing. breast milk is antimicrobial - any surface that comes into contact with it is actually more sterile than the surrounding area. besides, i'm trying to figure out the mechanics of how breast milk would actually end up on the table - in nearly 3yrs of breastfeeding, i can honestly state that that's never happened. and tell you what: since i have the legal right to breastfeed anywhere i am legally allowed to be, why don't YOU take YOUR lunch into the bathroom and stop staring at me?
Posted by: Amelia on 2010-01-20, 13:18:56
So could your saliva now get it off my table and go eat in the bathroom..
Posted by: Isa241 on 2010-01-20, 13:21:22
I have breast feed a child my self as well as used a bottle. I can honestly say that it's far more likely breast milk will spill from a bottle than a breast. Besides, you probably don't eat in the bathroom so why should my child?
Posted by: Cohen's mum back again on 2010-01-20, 13:22:34
My milk isn't going everywhere is it? and i don't have a disease. bowwel movements carry bacteria so please stop trying to make a comparison. I CHOSE TO BREASTFEED SO I WILL NOT BOTTLEFEED FOR SOMEONE ELSE'S PROBLEM > Like i said, bathrooms are a very unsanitary palce for anyone to nurse, much less a baby
Posted by: She is my Sunshine on 2010-01-20, 13:26:26
Wow, your question shows your ignorance. I can not help but laugh. Lol... At you.
Posted by: megan d on 2010-01-20, 13:28:40
Ignoring your irrational wish for me to feed my baby in a bathroom (gross). Breast milk, while not sterile, doesn't actually carry bacteria that you need to worry about. Also breast feeding is usually a very clean and tidy process, unlike bottles that can be set down and knocked over to spill. I have waited tables for many years and could tell some really gross stories about table cleanliness, so if you are really worried about germs, than bring Clorox wipes with you and wipe down everything before you touch it. I can pretty much guarantee that breast milk would be the least offensive body fluid that you will come in contact with at a restaurant.
Posted by: Baby Darien is here! on 2010-01-20, 13:31:46
How about I squirt you and see if you die...lol no really you should shut up now!
Posted by: NtrlBeauty on 2010-01-20, 13:39:15
Get over it. It's legal to breast feed in public anywhere so if it bothers you it sounds like YOUR the one who needs to go to the bathroom until IM done feeding my baby.
Posted by: Delaney due 4-4 on 2010-01-20, 13:50:57
Well I don't think they should have to go in the bathroom haha, but I see what you're saying. When I am out to eat the last thing I want to see is someone else breastfeeding. I just offended everyone on here I know, I'm sorry, but seriously. Some people are offended by it. They have the right to breastfeed, but I should have the right to eat comfortably and not have to watch. Also I do not want my kids seeing that. I know breasts main purpose is for breastfeeding, blah blah, but that's just not how it works. I want modesty in front of my children. By the way, I plan on breastfeeding, but I am going to pump out of respect for others in public.
Posted by: Smurf Me on 2010-01-20, 13:56:55
Wow, are you 12? First of all, it would be nearly impossible for breast milk to end up on a table while a mother is feeding her baby. Second, I have never been to a restaurant where the table wasn't wiped down with a disinfectant after each person leaves. Where have you been eating? I breastfeed in public as often as possible just on the off chance it annoys someone like you. There is nothing unsanitary about breast milk. A mother with a disease that can be transmitted through milk won't be nursing. If my child eating offends you, please feel free to take your meal into the bathroom.
Posted by: Annalyn on 2010-01-20, 14:14:14
The only thing that transmits is HIV/ AIDS. Geez. It doesn't transmit any other disease that I know of! Breast milk is usually disease free and I would imagine it would make a surface cleaner rather than dirtier. Plus, how the heck would you get milk on a public table unless you were purposely and inappropriately squirting it there??? Nursing in a bathroom is soooo disgusting! Why can't you just deal with mothers nursing in public? Most of us have the courtesy to cover up anyways. Would YOU eat in the bathroom? E And as for bottles, some babies don't take them. GROW UP!
Posted by: Not a sweetie on 2010-01-20, 16:26:14
Any restaurant where they make you sit at a table that hasn't been freshly wiped is UNSANITARY! I'd pick better eateries if I were you. God knows! People may sneeze and you touch that table? Yuck.
Posted by: Bird Flippin' on 2010-01-20, 16:46:01
The CDC does NOT list human breast milk as a body fluid therefor is not unsanitary, where as urine and feces found in the aerosol the toilet releases when flushed is
Posted by: Twice blessed momma of twins! on 2010-01-21, 08:01:51
Because what if our babies come in to contact with your bodily fluid that you left in the bathroom? Did you know, that when investigators went to restaurants to check the sanity of restaurant booths, they found numerous samples of bodily fluid on the cushions of the booths? They were all from different people, and were different types of fluids.. Urine, semen, vaginal fluid...Think about that. Breastmilk would be the least of my worries... Plus, my 7 month old is more likely to spill milk from a bottle than from my breast. And if I were to bring a bottle, it would be a bottle of breastmilk. The baby may not be paying to eat there, but the mother is. And mother have the right to breastfeed in any place where they are allowed to be.
Posted by: busybee27 on 2010-01-21, 08:09:23
Perhaps you are just bitter because you weren't breast fed. If there is milk left over on the table after the child has fed (which is very strange because we don't rest our boobs on the said table to wind the baby etc) then you need to find a higher class and more conscientious establishment to eat. If I go to a restaurant then I expect the table to be clean and I would worry more about - the flu virus etc on unclean surfaces. OR go through the drive through instead of taking a seat in McDonalds
Posted by: Sophies mummy and having a boy! on 2010-01-21, 10:11:05
Breast milk is sterile. If people can blow their nose/ cough/ talk in public then I will feed my baby too. Coughs, colds, flu etc are transmitted this way- NOTHING is passed from human to human via breastmilk (excluding the baby of course). So when you next have a snuffly nose- stay indoors, your germs might make my baby ill. BTW you must be a complete perv to notice a nursing mother in the first place. Why not worry about your life, we'll worry about ours.
Posted by: Mummy Wife Friend Life on 2010-01-21, 19:50:09
Ok I'll bite & dignify your 'question' with a response. Its not that I cant sit in a toilet & feed my child but I choose not to because I can. My breast is in contact with my babies mouth not the table & unless I physically aim & shoot my milk is not going to spurt onto the table. At the restaurants I go to the staff clear & clean the table after each diner, perhaps you could improve the standard of the establishments you visit to include ones with similar standards of hygiene. If you can see my breast while Im feeding its because you're looking. I like most Mothers have dignity & modesty & master discrete breastfeeding at home. If you can see my breast please avert your eyes. Why must I hear your drivel when Im discretely feeding my child. Are you the type that snigger's & points to his teen mates or the overbearing self important one who draws attention with the contemptuous comments to your buddies?
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