Should This Mother Have Been Allowed To Breast Feed Her Child In A Swimming Pool?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2392654/No-petting-bombing--breastfeeding-New-mother-ordered-stop-feeding-son-waist-deep-swimming-pool.html

[hc4361]

I wouldn't want to be swimming in baby posset, either. It may be sterile when it comes up, but it doesn't stay that way.

[Old_Geezer]

Personally I don't much care whether she does or not, but I am aware that many folk feel awkward being present at what they consider to be a private moment between mother and babe. Seems to me a sad thing when today's mother's can't seem to organise their lives to ensure private moments remain that. Either they have no concern for the feelings of others or they opt to try to cause a scene presumably to try to make some point. It's a sad world.

[Octavius]

I'm amazed at the presumption that if you find this woman breastfeeding her baby in a public swimming pool odd, that this equates to being scared of seeing boobies on display (or merely made accessible for a child to feed).

It doesn't faze me if a mum sitting next to me in Costa wants to breast feed her child whilst I am drinking my frothy mocha latte. I couldn't care less to be honest. I sense in some of these cases, the erroneous need to be outraged at the lack of fawning attention being plied on nurturing mothers simply because they are being mothers and want to be noticed. Whoopy doo.

This woman has made a right tit of herself and is milking it for all its worth. Badaboom Tish.

[andy-hughes]

Thanks sqad - I have actually agreed with youngmafbog on his own thread about Ed geting egged - a double first!

It's days like this that make me glad to be alive -- tiddle-dum, la la la ......

(oh lordy, the old fool's finally flipped! Sound of door closing quietly).

[cassa333]

This story is more about campaigning than an outraged mother. The breast feeding brigade is all of a twiching about another new mother being denied the right to breastfeed in public but to be honest it is a non story. It is just plain unhygenic to feed a child in a public swimming pool so she souldn't have been doing there in the first place.

End of.

[andy-hughes]

That's that then.

[Sqad]

andy....it won't last.......take it whilst it's still going.

I have always been in a job where I called the tune, so all this bilateral, let's discuss it, oh so reasonable, touch feely stuff, leaves me cold.

BUT the ABers love it.....particularly our female ABers...so keep it up and give them what they want.

[sherrardk]

I don't care if people breast feed or not (personal choice, etc). What irritates me is the mothers who make a big song and dance about breast feeding, as if they want some sort of recognition for doing it 'right'. I was once breast feeding in a museum and a woman approached me and congratulated me like it was some sort of big deal, patronising bat.

[andy-hughes]

Actually sqad, in my long tenure on here, it has occured a few times, and I always greatly appreciate it - it makes up for the times when AOG and I forget ourselves and get all het up!!

Just kidding AOG!!

[andy-hughes]

sherrardk - I entirely agree!

That's the sort of person who doesn;t have a TV, and makes a point of telling everyone as though not owning a TV makes you morally and intellectually superior!

As if! I have learned a vast array of information from my love of TV, and continue to do so.

Intellect-nazis - a plague on them!!

[craft1948]

I bottle fed the daughter, and never in public...................I'm amazed she survived.

[ummmm]

I still can't see a problem with feeding in public. I've never seen a woman with her boobs on show. Most women do feed their child discretely. Once baby is latched on then nothing is visible.

[B00]

I can't see how you can breastfed a baby in a pool discretely though, can't exactly drape a shawl or anything over yourself can you?

I'm all for breastfeeding babies when they need it,but like others have said, it's beyond me why she couldn't exit the pool and sit on the side, surely it'd be more comfortable for her too?

[Sqad]

craft

\\\\I bottle fed the daughter, and never in public...................I'm amazed she survived.\\\

LOL....

[boxtops]

I think it's an inappropriate place to feed the baby - not because of getting her boob out, but because there are chemicals and wee in toddler pools, she could have slipped over accidentally, all sorts of H&S reasons. You don't eat your sarnies in the baby pool. I think she was wrong.

[anotheoldgit]

Peter Pedant

/// AOG at your age you should be upholding the law (even the ones you dont like - like compulsory school lesbianisn on thursday afternoons) and not inviting/encouraging them to break it.And ///

And where have I made any comment for or against?

Pity you have failed this time to have a dig at me.

[ummmm]

Do they do breast feeding costumes?

[hc4361]

Toddler pools are usually fairly small. I wonder if her breastfeeding in it deterred a dad from going in the pool with his toddler, or a mother for that matter.
I would not feel comfortable getting in the toddler pool with a toddler if a mother was breastfeeding. I would feel that I'd be invading her space, that it would somehow be too intimate a situation.

Sat at the next table in a cafe wouldn't bother me one iota.

[boxtops]

ummm, I imagine they would look like the topless dresses of my youth (and before you ask, no, I didn't)