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