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.

Philoslothy

That was a troll spamming the board with rubbish.
They also posted on the potty training board telling someone to shit on the potty and so fourth.

Yes, that one was quite mild compared to their other offerings.

yes

That was a troll spamming the board with rubbish.

Grammatically incorrect rubbish at that. Where are the standards!

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

Exactly that. She will certainly have read this thread, and will firmly believe that we are all wrong and only she is right. She will go on deliberately causing trouble and tarring all other breastfeeding mothers with her own sticky venomous brush.

she may even sign up and spam the site with terrible troll posts.

Clearly I have far to much time on my hands, but here is a picture of the swimming pool with the wave machine on.

It definitely does not look like a safe place to feed a baby. Presumably she was sitting in the shallow end but it only takes a slightly bigger wave and water could be over the babies head

That looks fun

A pool local to us have a wave machine.

It has a sloping entrance so it's very shallow at the entrance and deep at the end. The water goes surprisingly far back when it reaches the shallow end. It is very powerful

Silly woman, it can take a big wave to knock baby out of her hands or underneath the water. You do not need to feed in the water, it is common sense that you find an appropriate place to safely feed your baby. She would have complained had she fed her baby down a ski slope, and told not too. One big attention seeker. Most women who bf are sensible, and feed without needing to say look at me what I am doing. I bet when that boy is about 18 he will cringe at that boobie cake, it was not for him, again about me me me!

Or for her to loose her balance and topple over with the baby on her.

Boobie Cake??? Dear God . Does she really see herself as no more than a walking pair of boobs? Poor cow.

Wonder what she will do with her life when her children turn round and say actually I don't want to breastfeed or sleep in your bed. AND I want to go to school!

I think she may find the teen years quite interesting.

Yes....

"Dc...is that burger sauce on your top!"

"No mum..."

'I hope that cider you are swigging in the park is vegan DS'.

hope that cider you are swigging in the park is vegan DS'.

That wasn't fair I just wasted a mouth full of non vegan cider.

I do hope the media follow this up down the line with the outcome of the legal action. I can't wait!

This woman isn't outraged or pee'd off at all, she just wants money and is using her kid to try and make some, what a twadge! I am all for BF, have done with all four of mine, and like others have had nothing but positive comments on it. Idiot.

How did she come up with a figure of £20,000?

Thinking about it, the last time I was in a pool with a wave machine (abroad), everyone had to wear life-jackets, and the waves were only switched on for 10 mins each hour.

Do you think she would sue because you can't breastfeed with a life-jacket on!

sorry, life-vest type things

To the poster who said the pool should sue her for loss of a few days revenue -- when someone is sick or poops in my local pool it takes about an hour to drain it, sanitise it, and get it back working again. It wouldn't take a few days.

It's a real pity to see that public breastfeeding is still considered a cause. This is an opinion many posters here share with the serial litigant.

There is afaik no indication that she was knocked over by a wave or lost her balance while bfing, or that her baby was submerged, or that anyone cannoned into her.

I think suing reinforces the idea that she, the baby's mother, and by extension all of us mothers can be trusted to keep our babies' best interests at heart.

I don't share her twitter views, however.

A letter of complaint would have kept everyone's interred a at heart.

Why legal action?