Pub tells mum to stop breastfeeding

Posted: 16/11/2009 17:11

ARGH not again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this is happening FAR to often!!!

When on earth is the message gonna get through that its <LEGAL to feed your baby ANYWHERE!

im off before i let rip!

Posted: 16/11/2009 20:33

Posted: 16/11/2009 21:43

I womder how long it took the person who complained to realise that the mum in question was actually feeding?  cos if she was well covered, id guess the complainer must have been staring for an awfully long time!! but pf course its ok to gawp at people isnt it...

i cant believe that staff in shop/restuarants still follow up these peoples complaints, its really quite sad.  as if being a mother wasnt hard enough.

Posted: 17/11/2009 19:22

I sat in Meadowhall and fed my 3wk old baby while feeding the older 2 Mcdonalds as a rare treat.  It was only when I burbed her that the woman at the next table realised what I'd been doing and came over.

I was ready for her to start having a go at me and all she said was where did I get such a lovely breastfeeding top cos her niece was hiding in the toilets feeding her baby!

My sister is mortified whenever shes with me because I told her if it was ok for her to feed her daughter a bottle in a public place mine was being breastfed and it was less obvious she was even being fed!

If you get the clothes and shawls etc its no more obvious than cuddling your baby because nothing is exposed.

Posted: 18/11/2009 11:42

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Posted: 19/11/2009 13:19

It was once suggested to me that I might feel more comfortable breastfeeding my baby in a private room......and this was by a doctor in the childrens A&E at Frimely Park Hospital!!!!!  My oldest daughter had split her head open so we were waiting to be seen and the only other people in the A&E were my husband, my daughter, a mother and her son - who had no problem with me breastfeeding.  Plus my little boy was totally covered by a breastfeeding shawl.

When I said I was alright where I was he was quite insistent but I stuck to my guns and very firmly said 'No thank you'.

What is wrong with people? 

Am now breastfeeding baby number 3 and fully intend on doing it anytime, any place, anywhere!

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Posted: 25/11/2009 13:34

Just in case anyone was wondering, here's a review of the pub in question:

http://www.fancyapint.com/pubs/pub1342.php

Posted: 25/11/2009 14:01

Posted: 25/11/2009 22:12

No it doesn't does it? Sounds like a miserable place.

We won't be going there with our Samuel anyway 

Posted: 26/11/2009 12:44

Hello!

 My first post here :0) but every time someone complains about bresteeding in public - it makes me really annoyed.

Fortunately I was never told off for breastfeeding my daughter - I even managed to do it on the crowded plane, sitting next to the young guy who didn't mind it. And as all they ladies here I agree that it is the most natural and the most beautiful time for mother and baby.

Posted: 26/11/2009 15:24

i completely agree milena,

and welcome to mfm im laura mum to jack 2.5 and lola 1

Posted: 26/11/2009 22:30