Great for you Lizz!

Oh and just a footnote - until you've actually done it, you won't know how hard it can be to be discreet at times - you have no control if your baby decides to pull from the breast and look around leaving you exposed, or if you are very large breasted and your baby is still very tiny, his head might not cover much of your breast. I also found I had to support by breast with my hand, and no amount of rolled up towels, balled socks, etc would do the trick. I did TRY to be discreet, but I imagine there were probably times when others around me thought I wasn't. It's HARD to be discreet with F cups at times as poking your breast through a tiny space of fabric in a nursing top can impede the milk flow and cause blocked ducts/ mastitis and that's NO fun.

In my experience, I fed in front of a few male friends who seemed slightly unsure of themselves at first, but I'd either make a self-deprecating slightly apologetic joke about having to strip off or just chat normally so that they didn't feel they were interrupting some terribly intimate mother/child moment and they instantly relaxed. My brother-in-law and father-in-law used to keep their distance at first, but eventually they got to the point where I genuinely believe they didn't even notice what I was doing. My f-i-l even patted my little one's head on occasion during a feed, probably without even realising what was going on.

I never got anything other than respect from people while feeding, but I do believe that an air of confidence is key - if that seems like doing it with attitude, that's probably because, some of us women HAVE attitude and that doesn't change just because we're Mums.

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