Well that is just fine. I am young and hot and I am not going to cover up. It is impossible to be discreet while nursing in a tiny tank top! What if I am eating take out at the park? Am I supposed to put put a little paper napkin over my daughters face?
Or what if I am wearing a hot little bikini at the beach.
Well, I would just take off my top and nurse away! Oh sure some people would stare and some would look away, embarassed. BUT one mother or young woman will see me and think. . . "I could do that" I am starting a revolution.
Nurse where you want and don't cover up. We have to be the change we wish to see in the world. If you are covering up, you have something to hide and I have nothing to hide.
What are American Women Hiding? What are they afraid of?

Being Discreet Doesn't Get the Job Done. So If you are hot or if you are not get out there and nurse your babies!!!! Flap those boobs around and knock some sense into those who would distain you!

There is a new breasfeeding symbol/sign that is available for businesses to put in there windows, maps, etc. You can get it at Mothering.com.

I don't think moms should have to go out of their way to be discreet, if they are comfortable with that, every body else can go screw themselves. I think people who are uncomfortable with that shouldn't stare if it bothers them, They have the power to look away. Breast feeding is not sexual, so if someone looks at it as if it were sexual, then they are perverts. In my opinion women shouldn't be told it's wrong to expose there breasts - say on a beach- guys do. Never got that, I mean there are man boobs, if anything those should stay covered up, but they aren't. The only reason why women are not allowed to show there breasts on a beach is because most MEN made a sexual thing out of it, obviously most MEN can't control or contain themselves and just stop being so sick and pervertedly twisted minded. If your a man and this offends you - think about why it offended you, I think you'll find that you men really have no say on if a women chooses to breast feed in public or not. You don't know what it's like to try and be a good mother and feed your baby the best thing there is, the baby can be hungry at anytime weather or not the baby was just fed and sometimes that's the only option a woman has is to feed her baby in public. She shouldn't feel ashamed just because it might be a turn on for you. Your the one that's sick and has the problem, Not her.

Seriously ladies, it's one thing to have an infant that keeps pushing the blanket away because he needs air, etc., but another to decide point blank that you don't care if you make others uncomfortable just to prove a point. That, to me, is selfish. Do you not care if your husband feels uncomfortable about you flashing his friends, etc.? This is why many people have a problem with nursing in the first place, because they distrust the intentions of the women nursing: nursing to feed versus nursing to stir up a controversy. I am a lactation educator and I encourage all of my clients to nurse their babies when they need to, and not to feel the need to do it in the bathroom as some would suggest, just like we wouldn't eat our dinner in the bathroom. But seriously, don't give us public nursers a bad rap by feeling it necessary to throw it out in an attempt to teach others about what is PC. I don't think it empowers women to do the same, I think after watching the men retract in awkwardness that instead they don't want to be associated with it. It is the men that are more uncomfortable with the flashing than their ladies, not because they can only see the breast as sexual, but because that is part of an intimate part of us to be saved for our soul mate, not for just anyone to gawk over. I'm sure this post will be met with much criticism, but I'm sure my husband would agree with all of this as well, and he's pretty lactation friendly, comfortable with me extended nursing our son to age 3. It's not a matter of legal right, because we all have a right to nurse whenever and wherever, but it's a matter of showing respect to others. And the little one deserves to be fed yes, and if he kicks off the blanket, there are still ways to at least TRY to be discreet, but I gathered that other friends and bystanders needs don't count. Just my 2 cents.

When my son and his friends spot a breastfeeding woman they hover and stare. When one woman complained to me, I laughed. Natural? Maybe. So is defecating. Keep it behind closed doors or accept the consequences.

Good that this is getting conversation, especially from dads as my hubby fully supports my nursing in public and in private. As stated, by the one dad, you'll see more of my fleshy breast parts (and you see more fleshy parts on teenagers even walking down the street) than you will when I nurse my child. Maybe if you stare really hard, you'll catch a little millisecond of the nipple just before she latches on...MAYBE.
I'm saddened to see milkinmama's response. Why is it disrespectful not to use a cover? I lift up my shirt enough to latch her on and you might see about 1/100th of cleavage... far less than you would with a tank top or bathing suit top. I am not about to throw a blanket or anything else over my child's face (and she wouldn't let me anyway) and I certainly would feel more indiscreet if hubby were standing there holding a napkin up over me. Milkinmama, as a lactation consultant should know that the bonding experience of breastfeeding includes eye contact with your baby anyway. Seems like you have your own hangups to deal with. It would take me twice as long to feed her having to keep throwing something over her anyway as she constantly pulls and kicks it off.
As for karom...you're just a complete idiot. The consequences of feeding my child when they are hungry is a healthy child. I'm not going to delay giving them nourishment because you or your adolescent brat can't handle it. Buy him a Victoria's Secret catalog, send HIM to a restroom and get over yourself. The only reason your son oggles is because you were a part of his upbringing. My oldest son and his friends don't even think twice about it.
Fact is, the formula companies' advertising so many years ago did its job and well in making breastfeeding taboo. It just goes to show how powerful advertising can be.
Hooray for intelligent fathers like Dadlabs! There is hope for the human race yet.

I completely agree with everything "proud to keep my baby healthy" said. As for covering up, it is pretty unnecessary. My baby doesn't have a huge head, but it is bigger than my breast. I am more embarassed about my post baby belly showing than the chance of someone getting a peek at my boob. BTW did you ever notice how more WOMEN are against public breastfeeding than men?