A Server Humiliated My Wife During Our Family Lunch—I Made Sure Everyone Knew

Unless this is posted as an adults only restaurant ( and honestly I have never heard or seen one actually promote itself as such) I cannot quite see where the problem would theoretically lay. The wife is being discreet ( the cover) and the child, especially a relative newborn, would have stopped fussing as soon as it was being fed. As a mother who fed 4 children the nature given way, this restaurants reaction makes no real sense to me (as a young mom 40 years ago, let alone now) other than trying to promote itself as being non-family oriented ?, making a natural safe function, being discretely done, out to be an objectionable thing. Most people, in my experience, would not even register let alone complain about a discretely feeding mother, they were the ones calling attention to it as if the mother had her breast out in the open for the whole world to see, if that was what was going on it would be slightly different, just for the fact that if you are not a breastfeeding mom or a baby being breastfed then a boob can't help but register as a sexual type organ rather than a food source. Is it maybe a cultural restaurant and that culture hasn't quite caught up to this century in the western world where it is being run? And Sara, your panties are in such a puritanical super twist that I'm surprised you still have circulation to your legs. If you've experienced heathen demon children in restaurants and elsewhere, that's down to the parents teaching or rather lack of it, most of us as parents always have and always will expect our children to be well behaved and respectful young humans when out in public, but I will admit it never ceases to amaze me what is considered appropriate behavior by some parents, a park and a restaurant or store are not synonymous as places to play and make raucious noise in, people haven't gone there to see someone else's 8 year old pull a heel thumping tantrum on the floor or see and hear other people's children run, screaming at the top of their lungs, through the aisles playing tag, while almost getting hit by carts or tripped over by people just trying to make purchases and getting glared at by said parents if anything is said to the child or the parent even if it's just a concerned" careful" for a child who's almost face planted in front of you. I feel sorry for you not being able to appreciate children, after all you were once one, weren't you?

There are some people and places that are just plain ignorant. As long as you're covered it shouldn't be a problem. People that have a problem should just not look. Problem solved. Before formula there was no other way to feed your baby. People can just be so ignorant sometimes. 🙄

I completely agree that babies in restaurants are upsetting to other diners, whether or not they "fuss" because their antics are irritating. However there are places that are child-friendly (which people like me, who do not like children would never frequent) and that is where parents should take their kids. If the restaurant welcomed babies (which I doubt and this should have been established before going) then they should have been fine about the woman breastfeeding in the restroom. Breast-feeding the child at the table is totally unacceptable covered or not.

OVERREACTING? NO DEAR, YOU WERE UNDERREACTING. What this restaurant did is ILLEGAL. If it was possible you should have picketed them with a BIG SIGN, saying what they did, and that they were ANTI BABY. You would have probably been confronted by a police officer, and asked to vacate, if you didn't have a permit, but you would have garnered attention. Perhaps a call to your local TV station would get some mothers groups on your side. The objective is to cost them as much business as possible. Businesses that break the law, in the name of decency, as it were, have no right to remain in business. Don't get yourself into trouble, but let them know that you will not stand for them discriminating against your wife and child. At the very least, they should have informed you that they would not be comfortable having a mother nursing their child in the restaurant, BEFORE YOU ORDERED. Since you came in with AN INFANT, they should have been aware of that possibility.