Breastfeeding in the park

I am not the type of person who feels she can BF her baby anywhere. It's just not easy for me. Not in terms of comfort and privacy but in terms of practicality. It's hard for Sam to have a perfect latch unless I am supporting my boob from underneath and I lift him. So that means I need a pillow and won't have free hands. No nursing in a carrier, for example. No side-lying nursing for us. No nursing in a rocking chair. Maybe it was doable when he was tiny but now that he's bigger and stronger, we have to nurse in very conventional ways. I sit on my bed with my feet dangling off the edge. I place a regular sleeping pillow on my lap (a small cushion used to work but isn't big enough anymore) and Sam lays across it. If I am feeding him from my left boob, I use my left hand to support it from the bottom and I use my right hand to keep his body pressed against mine.

So when I thought about BFing him in the park, I was sure it wouldn't work. But so far I have done that a few times this summer. We'd be in a park and it's quiet and no people are walking about. I sit cross-legged on the edge of a sidewalk and it's pretty good position-wise. My knees come up high enough to act as a pillow. It's neither noisy nor distracting, both of which are big no-nos for Sam. If I lived in quiet area with a private backyard, I'd be nursing outside all the time!