Originally Posted by liquidlight

Interesting situation, being in Utah I run into mom's breastfeeding in public all of the time and I've never had a problem with it, that may also come from the fact that I'm the 3rd of 10 kids and saw my mom breastfeeding all of my younger siblings.

Given the many benefits for both the mom and the baby I think I'd make a concentrated effort to become comfortable with it if I ever did have an issue just make sure that I was encouraging breastfeeding versus bottle feeding out of something as silly as social discomfort.