Public breastfeeding

[modest curtsey]

I don't get it!

Butt-y ..... geddit?

Re peeing in France. We notice our French friends never ask to use the toilet even during a five-hour meal. The men do sometimes go and pee in the courtyard, but the women never go. We have four toilets and we entertain a lot, but nobody has ever asked. When we go out we have trained ourselves not to ask either.

Oh, yes!
Thanks, when!

Ohn nanban, your reaction is sad, I love to see babies being breast fed, its one of the nicest things to see and gives me a warm fuzzy feeling, good for them why should they hide away, when a baby is feeding precious little boob can be seen.

I too have learned the art of hanging on, I did three 5 hour drives without a comfort stop and my trousers and feet stayed pristine.

Yes. I can hang on. I think it could be all the pelvic floor pull-ups I did when I thought things were going to fall out. (they didn't)

I'm amazed at how long I can hang on sometimes. But not when I wake in the night....I just have to go!

Oh yes! Can't go back to sleep without.

We had a thread about she-wees. Last year sometime.

I'll find it.

I once read that tennis players don't really need their 'comfort breaks' because they sweat so much and I have noticed that I can take a four hour walk, up very steep paths, on a hot day, without any problems. (I have to remember to drink some water though - my blood pressure once dropped so low that I got light-headed through dehydration.)

you might not have seen it

Hmm - wonder if Bags still uses hers?

By the way, did you know that the reason toilets in French homes often don't have washbasins is because you pay extra council tax per basin and taps.

As a teenager, I stopped to pee in a ditch whilst on a German dual carriageway - the ditch was quite deep and I thought I would be hidden - that was until a coachload of German men drove by (coach much higher than a car!) and the gents all lifted their hats to me!

Getting back to the original subject - although closely connected to latter posts - some years ago I settled in a cubicle to pee at a public toilet and heard some very strange sounds coming from the next cubicle - I was quite concerned that someone might be unwell, but then realised that a woman was sitting on the toilet breast-feeding her baby in the cubicle. Thank goodness no-one has to do that any more!

On the subject of natural functions, my children are extraordinarily open - they stroll in when I am on the throne, and hold lengthy conversations with me when they are doing the business. They are not one whit concerned - and the GC arrive sometimes! I think it is great and very healthy.

Oh no - I draw the line at open house in the bathroom/toilet!

Mishap

Our second loo is next to the bathroom and my daughter and I often sit "side by side" having a conversation through the wall.

I was paranoid as a teenager - I would pee as quietly as possible if there were any other women in the public toilets and if I needed to go in the cinema I would always tell the boy I was with that I wanted to comb my hair. The thought of admitting to having normal bodily needs seemed so unromantic. I don't care now!

It always makes me giggle inside when I hear a woman in the next cubicle fart!

What if you happen to be the woman in the next cubicle farting?

I remember my wedding day in 1967 my father used the bathroom first. I heard him come out, I went in next. We crossed on the middle of the landing, both stark naked and both of us with a nose in a book!
This was normal in our house! We both said 'good morning ' and carried on.
The same was the same in this house with the children.

The whole family are addicted to books!

petallus I never fart - perish the thought!

What???