THE MOST EMBARRASSING...

When Becky, (my first) was about 7 months old we attended a cousins wedding. I had on a low cut dress, so it was easy to turn away from the wedding reception, pop my breast out, latch Becky on, cover myself and her with a blanket and return to the party. Well, soon the groom came over and asked to see the baby, pulling the blanket away. Oh did he get a look. Well, to this day, when he sees Becky with her nine month old son, he leaves the room, breastfeeding or not. Susan Waterman, Maryland, USA

Not for me, but I would have thought the woman who said it to me would have been embarassed! When a non-breastfeeding woman realized that I was tandem nursing and looked square at my 4-10" inch skinny body and said with horror, "You mean they get enough from those two little things!" Meg Sondey, Mexico

I was driving through the drive through window at Burger King, buying myself a diet coke and 3-year-old Jennifer something else, when she announces to the person at the window that we don't need to buy anything for the baby because Mommy will drink her drink and her body will turn it into milk and she will nurse the baby. Nancy Franklin, San Antonio Texas USA

After hiking up and then nursing on the top of Mt Whitney, my son pulled away to see the horses that came up and left me hanging for all to see. Sharon Fairborn, California USA

While talking to a USC nurses' class, 15-month-old Trip was wandering around behind me in the room. I was just doing the "disclaimer" on LLL and weaning, saying something like "We don't expect you to meet your son in the locker room to nurse him in the halftime of the middle school football game," when Trip saw a teaching mannequin of a female body with removable organs and one breast cut away, one intact. It was cut off at the legs so that the breasts were right at his mouth level. You guessed it. He latched onto the (intact) breast and ... tried. The class convulsed into laughter and I turned around to see what he was doing. Then, typical of Trip, he pulled away and tried again. My co-Leader said, "Well, I guess he didn't get much of a let down." I don't know if the class heard another word I said. Janet Jendron, Columbia SC USA

We were at the funeral of a great-aunt of the family. Our current older nursing baby decided that she needed to breastfeed so I slipped out of the church and into the vestry to nurse in private. It was not until I was tidying myself up ready to go back into the church that I realised that I had been sitting in such a position, that a nearby mirror was angling my every move into the body of the church. Oh well, I hope Lucy's latch and positioning were correct!! Anne Devereux, Dunedin, New Zealand

THE FUNNIEST...

One day I was breastfeeding my 9 month old little girl. I was sitting on my bed, and my 4 year old son and my husband were sitting on the floor. My daughter, Emily, came off of my breast and my milk kept squirting out. I was laughing so my boob was flopping everywhere and my husband and son got squirted. I was trying to make it stop, and I was like, oh my god, my duct is stuck, I gotta go to the hospital to make it stop, but we were all laughing. Finally, it did stop. The next day, my son, Isaac, said "Hey mommy, will you get that there tee-ta out and squirt me?" He thought it was a game like with a squirt gun or something. It was cute. Tracy Young, Vine Grove, Kentucky USA

It was the middle of the night and I was sitting on a sofa with a soft light on, nursing my new first baby. I was pretty groggy. I kept seeing this white thread whenever I looked down. Seemed to be in the air going between my breast (the one not being nursed) and my baby. I bet I grabbed at it a dozen times trying to move it before I finally realized that it was a thin steady stream of breast milk... Sue Christensen, Indiana USA