Aly, I will accept your interpretation. If you didn't mean any offense, then, none taken. There is a whole host of reasons why that woman wouldn't just pump and take the milk in the cup. Not everyone pumps. It diminishes your milk supply, maybe she didn't have a way to keep it 'cool'. Maybe she wasn't expecting her child to need to feed at that time, maybe she is opposed to not BFing. Obviously, the list goes on and on, and I could still not be addressing it.

Jonah is a big boy. He is 31 inches long, and he is 9 months old. I plan to BF as long as it is mutually beneficial to the both of us. Maybe that will be 2 years, I don't know. It is the negative comments about how old a child is, or that the woman is trying to be sexual, etc., that is irksome.

When you look at it from a healthful viewpoint, BF is 'better'. Maybe it doesn't work for everyone, for whatever reason, but, if I choose to do what is 'better' for my child, I would want to be supported. I don't strip my clothes. I don't pull up my shirt. In fact, I have invested a decent amount of money in nursing clothes to make things as discreet as possible.

Maybe that woman was just like me, and she didn't think in a that another woman would find it offensive. Maybe she was just struggling to meet the demands of her child, and not disrupt whatever her business was with you. I wouldn't think to stop and ask, "will you allow me to BF my child" anymore than I would ask persmission to give him a bottle.