Pool feeding lady - Has this been done?

[lola88]

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opinions please is she BU?

I think it's a bit odd to do it in a pool I wouldn't have fed DS in a swimming pool not because it's unhygienic or indecent just because it's a pool, I also wouldn't have taken him to a pool that have dirty changing rooms or dirty anything for that matter.

I cannot link but I presume she actually fed in the water which I personally find a bit odd but I fed on holidays many times beside the pool so if that is what she did I think it is fine. I am all about breast feeding and normally I think the time and the place is when baby is hungry and when ever but I would normally have thought there was an implied caveat of an absence of drowning risk but to be honest it would not worry me greatly but still odd.

There was another thread about it. I think she should have fed by the poolside preferably. However, the pool staff felt that was unacceptable too.
They told her that she should go the changing rooms or toilets. Both these places are more unhygiencic tha the poolside.

Yes she fed in the water at the edge of the toddler pool. It was a quick comfort feed for a distressed baby.

I can see peoples point who think she shouldn't have, and would have probably agreed before breastfeeding, but I think if I'd braved swimming in the early months I would have ended up doing the same if DD was hysterical without even thinking about it until after, comfort feeding became my instant response to crying early on.

I think the hygiene issue is irrelevant, if the baby was screaming she was probably leaking anyway.

Has this been done?

Yes.

To death.

Shelly - took the words right out of my mouth I was literally going to post the exact same thing!

the hygiene reason was surely about the baby ingesting something but yes I agree done to death