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to wonder why she went to the press about it?

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MoominKoalaAndMiniMoom · 08/08/2014 12:13

Sorry for Daily Mail link - www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2719700/Mother-banned-breastfeeding-five-month-old-daughter-swimming-pool-against-no-food-drink-rules.html

To me the issue with this isn't whether it's ok to breastfeed in a pool or not, but rather, why has she gone to the press and why is she staging a protest? It says at the end of the article -

(a quote by the pool manager)
'We have been in contact with Natasha and after explaining our reasons behind suggesting she breastfed out of the pool hall were purely down to our concerns for the health and safety of her other young child who required adult supervision in the pool, Natasha accepted that our actions were a sensible and practical solution for ensuring the baby could be fed, both mother and baby would be comfortable and the slightly older child remained safe under mum’s supervision.'

Which I think is fair enough; pools have a supervision ratio and the adult actually needs to be in the pool with them and not distracted, that's a legal thing so the pool have to watch their own back. They weren't saying she couldn't breastfeed on the premises.
But if she accepted that their actions were sensible and practical solution, why has she gone to the press and organised a protest? She even says, 'it was other mums on parenting websites' who encouraged her to do it.

AIBU to think that either she agrees with their policy, or she doesn't and organises a protest, but doesn't lie to the pool and tell them that she agrees if she doesn't! It seems unfair to the pool to tarnish their name, if she's already accepted that it was a practical solution, by then running to the press.

Fully expecting Biscuit galore but I'm not on the wind up, I saw the article and couldn't understand the reasoning behind it.

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Eauneau · 08/08/2014 12:16

Oh dear...........

Ohwhatfuckeryisthis · 08/08/2014 12:23

Not this again... Slow news day is it?

Anarchy99 · 08/08/2014 12:26

This (or something similar) has come up several times in the DM.

I don't get why anyone would want to parade their "sad face" in any paper and revel in the publicity.

Some people just want to make their niggles public (eg the Cedar Falls debacle).

MoominKoalaAndMiniMoom · 08/08/2014 12:42

If it had been just another 'breastfeeding in pool' thread, I wouldn't have posted. It really is just the fact that he said 'she's happy with what we said', and she's said 'everyone told me to go to the news so here I am even though it's sorted' that confuses me. Is it just people riding on the coat tails of genuine nurse-ins and public spaces where women have been undeniably discriminated against for breastfeeding, to get their faces in the paper?

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halfpastshite · 08/08/2014 13:51

I read that as 'some people just want to make their nipples public'.

ADHDNoodles · 08/08/2014 15:19

Did she really accept it though, or were they relentless and refusing to listen until she did a resigned "Ok, ok"?

I've had customer service people refuse to budge, and when I left and re-complained I was told that I agreed earlier. Well, no. I didn't. I just didn't want the hassle of dragging out a long and pointless argument.

WildThong · 08/08/2014 15:23

Probably paid for the article.

Igggi · 08/08/2014 15:59

If it was purely for the safety of the other child, why do they mention the comfort blah blah of the mother and baby?

IdealistAndProudOfIt · 08/08/2014 15:59

I wondered exactly the same thing. Interesting that Anarchy said it had come up several times. I've just started to read Nick Davies' 'Flat Earth News' which is an inside story on why journalism has got so bad now. Including recycled stories, because of the lack of time and staff and pressure for profit.

I'd recommend the book, though it is depressing, as all accounts of current state-of-society are.

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