Women wins payout from leisure centre

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  • Hugh JboobsHugh Jboobs Posts: 15,316
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    Breast feeding is a precious bond between mother and baby and should be done in private.

    Thankfully, both British law and common sense disagree with you.
  • sweetpeanutsweetpeanut Posts: 4,805
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    No, it is quite natural; as is defeacating or having sexual relations; but we don't do so at the edge of a public paddling pool.

    Why do you compare eating with shitting and sex? Bet you still want mums to feed in the public toilets!

    Eating is natural and thank god these days breast feeding in public is acceptable.. even at the dinner table

    No one as far as I am aware has said she was OK to do it on those steps..
  • TagletTaglet Posts: 20,286
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    My thoughts exactly, Pasty face. Attention seeking women who choose to breastfeed their babies in unhygienic places should be fined, not compensated. Breast feeding is a precious bond between mother and baby and should be done in private.

    Just as well the law recognises the child's right to be breastfed and the mothers right to do just that without public interference. I see nothing 'attention seeking' about feeding a baby when it is hungry.
  • TagletTaglet Posts: 20,286
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    No, it is quite natural; as is defeacating or having sexual relations; but we don't do so at the edge of a public paddling pool.

    The baby was eating, not having sexual relations or defecating :confused:
  • nanscombenanscombe Posts: 16,588
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    If she had previously been in the water, and had not washed herself, it was probably more akin to eating without first washing your hands or giving a baby a bottle without sterilising it first.
  • sweetpeanutsweetpeanut Posts: 4,805
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    nanscombe wrote: »
    If she had previously been in the water, and had not washed herself, it was probably more akin to eating without first washing your hands or giving a baby a bottle without sterilising it first.

    I think that is a moot point when the baby probably swallowed pool water anyway. We take the little ones swimming and they are under as much as floating :D
  • evie71evie71 Posts: 1,372
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    Taglet wrote: »
    You do know its much more likely for a formula fed baby to chuck up small amounts of sick at any time whereas its much rarer for breast fed babies to be sick at all, dont you? If you are that neurotic about hygiene then its best not to enter the pool at all as there will be all sorts of debris floating about. Its why they add chlorine.

    You do know that a baby will vomit weather it's bottle or breast fed don't ya? To state that it's rarer for a breast fed baby to be sick at all is a fallacy.
  • TagletTaglet Posts: 20,286
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    evie71 wrote: »
    You do know that a baby will vomit weather it's bottle or breast fed don't ya? To state that it's rarer for a breast fed baby to be sick at all is a fallacy.

    You do realise that the NHS agrees with what I have said....don't ya?

    http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/pages/why-breastfeed.aspx#close
  • AnnaliseZAnnaliseZ Posts: 3,912
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    evie71 wrote: »
    You do know that a baby will vomit weather it's bottle or breast fed don't ya? To state that it's rarer for a breast fed baby to be sick at all is a fallacy.

    Yeah but wasn't this baby about 8 months old? Not like a newborn who possets - they pretty much keep whatever it is they're drinking down by then.
  • bryemycazbryemycaz Posts: 11,735
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    AnnaliseZ wrote: »
    Yeah but wasn't this baby about 8 months old? Not like a newborn who possets - they pretty much keep whatever it is they're drinking down by then.

    My son didnt as I can veryfiy. He was still projectiling, he got me and his mum all down us one time. He was a stubbon child to wind.
  • TagletTaglet Posts: 20,286
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    bryemycaz wrote: »
    My son didnt as I can veryfiy. He was still projectiling, he got me and his mum all down us one time. He was a stubbon child to wind.

    Must have been a late developer. The chucking up argument is irrelevant anyway because it seems that most babies (and children for that matter) chuck up at some point.
  • PrincessTTPrincessTT Posts: 4,300
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    bryemycaz wrote: »
    My son didnt as I can veryfiy. He was still projectiling, he got me and his mum all down us one time. He was a stubbon child to wind.

    And if this woman's baby was like your son then I'm sure she wouldn't have tried to feed her in the pool... The mum, the person who was feeding the baby, is best placed to know whether or not her 8 month old still throws up after a feed.

    The fact that they didn't want to let her feed on a bench beside the pool either suggests to me that the staff had an issue with breastfeeding rather than any possible safety/hygiene issues with the location.
  • AnnaliseZAnnaliseZ Posts: 3,912
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    bryemycaz wrote: »
    My son didnt as I can veryfiy. He was still projectiling, he got me and his mum all down us one time. He was a stubbon child to wind.

    I'm sure there's always an exception, but most aren't projectile vomiting at 8 months - unless it's reflux or they've got a bug.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 2,147
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    No, it is quite natural; as is defeacating or having sexual relations; but we don't do so at the edge of a public paddling pool.

    I find this comment quite offensive, how can you compare breastfeeding to defecating and sex? Yes they are 'natural' but you wouldnt do them in the middle of town - or in this case at the side of a swimming pool? Breastfeeding is natural and should be allowed ANYWHERE!!
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    AnnaliseZ wrote: »
    Yeah but wasn't this baby about 8 months old? Not like a newborn who possets - they pretty much keep whatever it is they're drinking down by then.

    Nope my child was 11 months before he stopped throwing up every feed
  • Joni MJoni M Posts: 70,225
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    LuverlyAJ wrote: »
    It's an opinion about the topic, you're judging me, that's against the rules

    Mocking a FM is also against the rules

    Nobody on the forum said anything about, or even close to resembling, mortal sin,

    Yes. them.

    So is being a PBU Damanda, but lets have one rule for you and one for others eh?

    How's that high horse these days?
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 19
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    I really don't find breastfeeding in public acceptable. We are no longer living in caves, we are civilised and I don't want to be accosted by images of crude aspects of our biology in public. It's the same as defecation, I don't want to see it in public.
  • JB3JB3 Posts: 9,308
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    No, it is quite natural; as is defeacating or having sexual relations; but we don't do so at the edge of a public paddling pool.

    Breathing is natural too and we do that everywhere all the time.
  • JB3JB3 Posts: 9,308
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    No, it is quite natural; as is defeacating or having sexual relations; but we don't do so at the edge of a public paddling pool.
    I like your user name.
  • sweetpeanutsweetpeanut Posts: 4,805
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    Angel Lisa wrote: »
    Nope my child was 11 months before he stopped throwing up every feed
    That is your child, most children dont at that age.
  • sweetpeanutsweetpeanut Posts: 4,805
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    JB3 wrote: »
    I like your user name.

    :D .
  • bluebladeblueblade Posts: 88,859
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    I see no reason why she could not have sat on the benches at the side either before or after. She was in the wrong to start with, the manager was in the wrong to finish with.

    Totally agree with the above. I've absolutely no issue whatever with women breastfeeding babies in public, but there was a potential health and safety issue with her feeding the child on the steps of the pool, where body fluids might have escaped into the pool. Any risk was negligible, but even so, she should have sat down on the benches as you say.

    I imagine she did this simply without thinking. All that was needed was a quick friendly word of advice, but the pool attendant instead took a ridiculously high handed attitude, and was wrong to indicate that the young Mum's actions were "offensive".
  • JB3JB3 Posts: 9,308
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    This has gone into the realms of silly now.
  • TagletTaglet Posts: 20,286
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    Red_Wine wrote: »
    I really don't find breastfeeding in public acceptable. We are no longer living in caves, we are civilised and I don't want to be accosted by images of crude aspects of our biology in public. It's the same as defecation, I don't want to see it in public.

    So you see eating and drinking is uncivilized, crude and the same as defecation? :o Life must be tough for you...have you thought of seeking some help?
  • bluebladeblueblade Posts: 88,859
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    JB3 wrote: »
    This has gone into the realms of silly now.

    Says the guy who made a completely off topic post about somebody's user name ^_^
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