Last Thursday my husband and I went to see the Cincinnati Reds play the Braves at SunTrust Park here in Atlanta and we took our 8 month old son with us. We had no issues for the most part, except that tried to grab the beer from the guy behind me and almost spilled it, but he thought it was cute and said "it's a little early for you to start drinking little dude!" Lol

Anyways, at about the 4th inning he got a little restless and I was going to take him to the nursing room and get some quiet, A.C. and to feed him. The nursing room was quite a walk from where we were seated. We took the middle elevator to the 1st floor where it was located. While in the elevator the attendant told me I could nurse him in the elevator lobby because it's quiet, there's chairs, A.C. and a tv to watch the game and I wouldn't have to walk so far. I told her thanks! And that I'd do that.

My son is going through his biting phase while nursing so I really have to pay attention so I can pull him off when looks like he's about to bite.

About 5 minutes later the attendant in the first elevator, with an elevator full of people stops what's she's doing, holds the door open and goes "Ma'am! Ma'am!" Of course I didn't say anything because I'm concentrating on my son, trying to keep him from biting my nipple off. Then she again said "Ma'am! There's a nursing room for that!" I said "Well the other lady said I could nurse here" and the second I took my eye off him he bit me so hard my nipple swelled up!

I'm still so irritated that she had to call attention to me like that. Everyone in the elevator staring at me. And of course I screamed out in pain. Then she just closed the doors like nothing happened, like she didn't just embarrass me.

Almost in tears I gave up and walked another 5 minutes, got lost, had to turn around and finally found the nursing room. By that time he was irritated and I couldn't calm him down. By the time I got back to our seats I got to enjoy maybe 20 minutes of the game and then it got rained out. I just feel like if I didn't feel obligated to go to the nursing room for other people's comfort I at least could've enjoyed the game a little longer. I could've just finished nursing him there and gone back to our seats and had another 30 minutes watching the game. Being a first time mom, I'm always saying "if someone has a problem with it, they can just look away." But when the situation arrives, I just crumbled and did what made someone else comfortable rather than what was best for my son and I. I feel so defeated. 😔