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.

Math from your own quote:

a wave machine that fills the pool with swell at regular intervals! It's pretty strong so be sure to start out in the shallows when the waves start and get the hang of things before progressing'

Even in the shallow part there are waves. Yes children are allowed in the shallow part, but that doesn't mean there are no waves that are going to cover faces.

Or did they update this section of the brochure and lie just to hide facts from the case, just like the Mirror lied?

AAAAANNNNNNDDDDD she would have her breasts more covered in a pool of waves than beside the pool on a chair.

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Math, as an aside, it is very frustrating when you use strikeout on the text in most of your posts.

For information, a double dash: --
is what causes the strikeout.

If you stop using double dashes in your extensive missives, it will make it less of a chore to read your posts.

Perhaps just one dash will suffice?

Perhaps just one dash will suffice?

That is verbal assult!

'Extreme militancy' is not going to adversely affect women's right to publicly breastfeed any more. The law is on the side of women.

Well it's interesting because on another thread I read a post from a pregnant woman who was worried about breastfeeding in public. She was worried about being seen as one of those militant types just for feeding her baby.

Well I feel discriminated against now..

I go into a shop, I stand about and NO ONE offers me a chair

I mean how rude is that? I'm just standing there minding my own business and no one helps me. Should I sue? 20k sounds about right..

I agree Need, You have the right to sit where ever you want.

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If you think discrimination against breastfeeding women is inconsequential in a world awash with pimped out body parts of women, including breasts, then I invite you to think again.

It IS inconsequential compared to the very real and damaging discrimination that happens towards women (and men) every single day based on their gender, their colour, disabilities etc. Being offered a chair when bf is NOT and will NEVER be discrimination.

I would suggest, Math, that you get off this thread and start reading more widely and educate yourself to what is really going on in this world.

I mean how rude is that? I'm just standing there minding my own business and no one helps me. Should I sue? 20k sounds about right..

Can you blame someone for not offering a chair though if they might be sued for it!

Say I encounter a breast-feeding mother standing on a bus with no spare seats alongside other standing passengers. Basic humanity and courtesy would lead me to offer her a seat.... But the fundamentalist lactivism espoused by math would seem to imply that I shouldn't so I may remain seated rathe than risk an earful from a 'lactivist warrior'.... The bus driver sees the mother struggling, but cant intervene so as not to risk landing his company with a lawsuit and losing his job.

The likely result... The mother is actually not a militant lactivist and is greatly discouraged by the lack of support and awareness of her needs... She chooses not to bother breast feeding in public in future.

Flash it would be fine for you to offer the woman on a bus a seat, as long as you ripped it out from its current position so she didn't have to move from the exact spot she had chosen to breastfeed. You cannot expect her to walk further down the bus to hide away at the back because that would be the same as telling her to get off the bus or putting her in the cleaning cupboard.

Flash Maybe ask if they are on MN and if their username is math first

This thread is making me lol

If the pool staff were so 'omg boobs! Won't someone think of the children!!!' as you seem to think math wouldn't they have asked her to move to the changing room/toilet/broom cupboard? Offering a chair in the same place as she was (although obviously not under the water) wouldn't be hiding her breasts at all.

Perhaps a bespoke, special 'breastfeeding in the pool chair' should be available at all pools?

Would it be impolite or sue-worthy to be offered such a facility?

Get a load of these offensive sue-worthy chairs.

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Should I be suing BA/T5 for providing one of the best baby changing/feeding rooms ever? Because I want to sit at check in zone D and bf my ds instead?

I feel like going to a swimming pool tomorrow with my DSGS and feeding him his bottle in a pool.....

If I get offered a chair I promise I will shout at the lifeguard, take some sad face photos and then come home and start a thread on MN

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Do it zeez.