Gee, Daisy it sounds to me like you’re just really into seeing women breastfeeding. Why do you care where she decides to breastfeed??? Is it affecting you personally? It’s none of your business. There are more important issues in the world than where women feed their babies…

I don’t understand why she had to go to her car to nurse the baby. It sounds as if she only had one child with her to handle. I have had two small children with me at the mall and am able to nurse the baby on a bench. Who cares if someone sees her boobs or takes a picture of them – that is what breasts were created for. Breastfeeding is nothing to be ashamed of, it is the best thing for babies. I wish Elisabeth wouldn’t portray breastfeeding as something you need to run to the car to do, especially on the Dreft site. That makes expectant moms think that BF is something you can’t do inside the mall. Please Elisabeth be more like Maggie Gyllenhaal and nurse in public like everyone else. It is OK!

Elisabeth strikes me as someone who is very modest and likely wouldn’t want the public or the paps getting a shot of her boobs and I can’t say I blame her. Because she is a celebrity, people would be staring at her. You can’t deny that. It’s awkward enough to try and BFIP, but when you’re famous, you get that much more attention. And if she had a baby with a loaded diaper, maybe she didn’t want to sit and nurse him in a change room where everyone else would be subjected to the smell. And maybe she didn’t want her hungry baby to scream the place down while she changed his diaper. She did what she had to do and a lot of people would do the same thing. I’ll never understand why people get so bent out of shape when a woman doesn’t choose to flaunt the fact that she is breastfeeding. If you want to see it that badly, look at pictures of in on the internet.

I agree Rebecca. A public restroom with wet paper towels would have been perfect. Or if she had been in a fitting room, she could have snagged some clothing from the store and paid for it later. Haha!

If only she felt comfortable nursing in public, she could have used wet paper towels in the public bathrooms to change his diaper.

I think it’s just one of those moments where you have to make a split decision and sometimes you get it right, sometimes you don’t…. it happens to all of us in one way or another at some point if you have children.{no matter what their age, or what’s going on w/ the child} Everyone recovered nicely, so I say “Well done!” Elisabeth.

When my first was 6-weeks old we went to the aquarium–myself, my husband, our daughter, and my parents. I had dressed her in a cute little Ralph Lauren outfit my mom had bought (something I would never splurge on). When we went to get out of the car, I realized I had a nice present. It was several blocks to the aquarium, so we had to change her in the car. It was a 5-seater, and my dad would not let us use the seat (which is how I have always before and always since changed an emergency diaper), so we had to change her in the trunk. The trunk kept shutting on me the whole time I was trying to change her, and my family kept laughing at me, instead of helping. My dad then freaked out that I wanted to leave the outfit in the trunk (I since learned to carry Ziploc bags for such instances), and my mom said we couldn’t throw it out (obviously), and it wasn’t going in the diaper bag, so we “stored” it under the car and brought back a bag from the gift shop to put it in.

That was the only “problem” outing I ever had with either of my children.

It is true that most department stores have areas for a mother to nurse in private, but all things considered, I don’t see how anyone could say Elisabeth didn’t do the right thing by heading to her car. I know that if I had to be in a changing room with a screaming baby making a massive diaper for myself and everyone else to smell, I would not be happy. Obviously things like that are sometimes inevitable, but it sounds like that’s why Elisabeth went to the car; she knew he was crying for a reason and she didn’t want to further disturb the people around her. Besides, it sounds like the situation was so stressful for her that’s better she was in private anyway. I say bravo to her for being so considerate.

Haha… my son Ezra traveled from Milwaukee where we live to Cedar County, Nebraska at 5 weeks old. He was great until in Iowa he starts BELLOWING!!!!!! We knew that there was a really cute playground coming up so we could stop, my sisters could play, I could nurse, etc. I go to pull him out of his carseat and I am greeted with SEEDY YELLOW BABY POOP from his toes to his little blonde fuzz in the back of his HEAD!!!! I had no clue what to do, so as my mom and grandma are rolling in the grass laughing at me, I took bottles of water and gave him a bath in the grass!!! Now everytime any child, inluding my other baby has an explosive incident, we call it a “Rockwell City”, because thats the name of the town we stopped in… lol.. LIZA YOUR BABY JUST ROCKWELL CITIED!!! sorry probably TMI put it was just sooooo funny.

All I can say is how silly to high tail it all the way back to the car to nurse. Sure as a celebrity you may not want to nurse in the food court-or maybe you could care less like Maggie Gylanhall with Ramona. But I’m SURE any department store would be more than happy to offer her a dressing room with a chair. She put a whole lot more stress on her self the she needed to.