Mother sues for £20k for being discouraged from bf while the wave machine was on

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Daily Mirror link to the story here.

I'm totally for breastfeeding wherever and whenever, but I wouldn't want to eat my sandwiches in a swimming pool - they are so germy, like a human soup, so not sure a swimming pool with a wave machine on would be the best place to bf. Plus, obviously in this case there was the waves.

I realise that getting out of the water, especially if she had other kids, with a hungry baby would be a massive faff, but wouldn't the wave machine splash the baby and make it choke?

Serious question: AIBU to think this? Is bf in a swimming pool a done thing? Genuinely curious.

It cant possibly be comfortable for mum or baby to feed in a wave pool and what if the baby was sick in the water.
It would have never crossed my mind to even give my baby a bottle in a swimming pool, waves or no waves. Its not the method of feeding that was the problem. A pool is no place for food or drinks for anyone. It seems to me she thought of an opportunity to make some money (shes got form) as no one is that stupid to think that is a sensible idea.
Attention seeking, self entitled, money grabbing idiot!

Yawn
Clearly an attention seeker and out for some compensation from everyone who dares glance in her direction whilst breastfeeding.

"It's my right to breastfeed wherever I like" blah blah....Bore off.

I have no issue with other choosing to BF in a pool if they want to, although I can't imagine why anyone would prefer it to sitting in a chair. But when the wave machine is on, that's just crazy. Any pool I've been to with a wave machine had had an age limit and babies need to be taken out when it's coming on. Seems perfectly sensible to me.

And as for the case where she got a letter of apology. Ridiculous. The same thing happened to me. My daughter was 8 weeks old and had a hospital appointment. They were running late and she needed a feed. I said to the receptionist I was going to feed her, would they be much longer? She said they'd simply take in the next patient oif they needed to and rather than sitting in the waiting room, would I like to use the breastfeeding room where the chairs are much comfier. I said yes, she took me there and made me a cup of tea and gave me some biscuits. Maybe the way it was offered came out wrong, but I get the feeling any offer of "would you like to...." Will be taken by this woman to be against her rights.

Remember, this is a real-person, with real feelings.

As are the women that she tells aren't good enough because they can't feed, or are horrible mothers because they don't do everything her way.

You can't be nasty to others, then cry victim when they turn against you.

I'm not a fan of breastfeeding in pools, I'm not big on anyone eating in a pool. Not a great idea to set up a situation where a baby may vomit into the water, and having waves around you is just a hazard while concentrating on feeding. We have a pool and I never found my baby wanting to feed just because there was only a swimming costume between him and my boobs, there was way too much going on to distract him from wanting to eat. This sounds like attention and money grabbing; she's got the attention, I hope she doesn't get the money.

I am quite worried about this woman and I agree that we need to remember that she is a real person with feelings.

Its utterly ridiculous.

Feeding in a swimming pool is gross, not from the baby sick perspective but because there is worse in swimming pools than a little posset . That said its up to mum is my opinion.

But while the wave machine is on is an entirely different level.

real person with feelings.

As are the people she has allegedly berated in the past.

Yes she is a real person with feelings, aren't we all, but she created this herself, and should take the repercussions of it. She sounds quite unpleasant, she aims to normalise breastfeeding, she is not doing that in the slightest, but perpetuating the negative stereotypes. Most women breast feed without all this drama, and need to draw attention to herself. I hope she is reading this, will give her some food for thought.

Most shocking as ive already highlighted, and its an important issue, that she is a breastfeeding peer supporter, helping women who are having issues with breastfeeding, with her negative attitudes.

If the story is to believed the person that offered her the chair is a real person too, I know which one I feel most sorry for.

YY Aero from what I read of her Twitter I am not sure she has the right qualities or knowledge to be helping people with their own BF challenges.

No it does not seem like it at all sparkling, tge fact she's a lactivist, so very one minded and probably quite forceful in her beliefs.

At no point did she consider other people's feelings over the years. The ridiculous complaints she has made to lots of companies - boots, mothercare, vodaphone, Tesco, arndale centre, pizza something, morrisons, plus more. She didn't think about the people's feelings then.

She didn't think about feelings when she called milk drinkers rapists. Kid you not. She posted that shit.

Nor berating a dad for his advice, because fuck me he didn't co-sleep and how dangerous it is to not co-sleep.

She trawled through a 15 year olds account to berate him for something he said at 11.

She berates people for not bfing. She will not comprehend that not everyone can or indeed wants to.

She doesn't believe that people have a free choice and the right to slap her tits out comes before anything else as this is the only right that matters. So much so that she started a campaign against a small store owner who didn't have space to bf (look at the irony when offered space elsewhere she kicked off).

All of the above posted by her on her own Twitter account. Nothing twisted by media or anyone else. It's easy to see how she exudes pure niceness.

You reap what you sow.

Perhaps now if she is on here, she will take a step back, have a think about how she is with other people, with small companies, with the public in general and carry on with her BFing like everyone else does. She is more likely to turn people against breastfeeding than encourage it and I don't know why she can't see that. Most of us just get on with what we have to do without going out every day looking to pick a fight.

She needs to have some empathy too. Not everyone can physically BF, ... all these people are reduced to some sort of second class citizen for not doing it her way.

MN is a very pro-bf forum to be on yet this thread is more or less unanimous (apart from maybe her and a couple of her friends on here!) so that should give out a message to her. Take it. Drop the stupid "lactivist" tag and just get on with bringing up your children the way you want to and let others do the same, you are doing damage to every single breastfeeding Mum.

Drop the £20,000 claim, drop all the social media wailings and go off and have a life with your beautiful children, no one wants to know.

She sounds horrific....

Boots used to at least print a parenting booklet. Some of the content in the book was from parents and how they handled certain aspects of parenting.
She complained. So yes if she is reading this she will be complaining on her locked account and/or to hq.

I suspect not only has she complained but also reported almost every post on the thread.

I doubt she will listen.

She is an extremist and they rarely listen to common sense. Once they think something, everyone else is wrong.

I wonder how you get to that point? When something is just all consuming and you just can't see it?

I don't know. It's very childlike I think. A child will say the sky is pink and nothing will sway that thought.

An adult would say you think it's blue? Hmm perhaps it is. I personally think it's pink but I can see how you think it's blue. Let's work it out together

Yes, that is the grown up way isn't it?

I am all for being passionate about something but there's a line.

The ridiculous complaints she has made to lots of companies - boots, mothercare, vodaphone, Tesco, arndale centre, pizza something, morrisons, plus more

Eh???!!! Good grief, I didn't realise there were as many as that

I believe the posh phrase is "vexatious complaints" though I can think of others ...

Don't people like the have lives? . I get the benefits of breastfeeding; I've bf three myself, (and never had so much as a raised eyebrow from the great British public) but I really can't get the evangelical "everybody else MUST do it too!!" mindset.
It's a bit like those Forever Living advocates, although obviously they're trying to make some money out of it. just like our friend in the story, actually...
Who has enough headspace to set themselves up as a flaming missionary to the rest of society? Who actually cares enough what everyone else is doing?
And describing yourself as a lactivist makes you sound like a milking cow, with no other particular purpose.

Fortunately it has been swiftly deleted, but you have quoted it and it's back again.