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.

Totally agree that what seems to be the case here is that she was offered a chair rather than told to stop. This has come from a witness.

What makes it worse is I've been to the swimming pool in question and it's absolutely filthy and when the waves are on its mad loads of kids running in and out. So the chance of the poor baby choking or getting hurt are quite high the life guard was totally in the right to suggest she moved onto a chair!

Do people actually breastfeed in an actual swimming pool (waves or not! ), but in the water? Surely that's not the most comfortable/appropriate place to nurse your child anyway.

I think breastfeeding is great but surely in the water at a pool is not really on. Would she feed her baby waist deep in the sea?

Repeat offender is not exactly correct. She has not sued anyone previously. And i would wager that there are many breastfeeders who have been in positions where they could, should or have complained multiple times. Remember not all you read in a newspaper is fact!

It's very rare for a thread to be so unanimous.

Some pro feeding activists take things to a whole other level. Yes fight for more awareness of public feeding but this just makes a mockery of that.

What's the 20k for? Was she too offended that she can never BF again and claiming for the all the illnesses her and her child may get?

Rosae are you the woman in the article(s)?

Birds, no sorry it was just the word lactivist which gets my hackles up a bit. I only included the word vegan as that's the phrase she used. I have nothing against vegans, Dh is vegan.

Describe yourself as pro breastfeeding or someone who campaigns for breastfeeding rights, etc. But the word lactivist seems ime to be used by people like this who are slightly bonkers and love seeking out perceived injustice where there is t any.

bloodyteenagers , so she is in the paper again? the same one?it was found that she was lying about Primark, utterly disgusting, what an awful awful woman!!!!! hideous!

Yes just the word 'lactivist' is makes me think-breastfeeder looking for trouble.

Just had a sneak on the Instagram - she got her son a nipple/Boobie cake for his first birthday. If natural term weaning won't be rememberable enough that sure will!

is she the one who was lying about the "indian security gaurd snatching her baby" whiel she breast fed in primark?

Jason no that lady got a suspended sentence I think! Not the same woman

I'm all for breastfeeding in public, but not in a swimming pool. Nobody else is allowed to eat their lunch in the pool (and with good reason) what makes babies any different?

Primark was a different person.

Looking at her Instagram she sounds very attention seeking and smacks look at me how wonderful I am, so superior type thing. So I wod not be surprised. Quite attention seeking.

Ffs people like her enjoy just getting everyone else to jump to her unreasonable demands. This has nothing to do with needing to feed her baby.

I think feeding in a swimming pool is absolutely disgusting and dangerous! Breast milk can transmit diseases just like any other bodily fluid.
I'm pretty sure babies shouldn't even be in a wave pool anyway.

Oh god just seen the boobie cake for her ds, my goodness, she does little to promote bf and all to perpetuate the negative stereotypes of bf mothers. All I have met are lovely normal ladies.

Love the comment in the paper, it said (next time i fancy a kfc i will take it in the pool with me) thought that was funny.

YY babies should not be in the pool when the wave machine is on. There doesn't have to be a sign because it's obvious and common sense.

Oh god just seen the boobie cake for her ds, my goodness, she does little to promote bf and all to perpetuate the negative stereotypes of bf mothers. All I have met are lovely normal ladies.

Maybe she is against breastfeeding and promoting the negative sterotype as a way to make breastfeeders look bad.

I used to teach her... Funnily enough she did once say to me "you can't touch me, I'll sue you" as I herded herald others along a corridor during a fire alarm...

In-tor-esting...

That about sums it up four. Stupid entitled daft woman.

I'd like to know what the £20,000 is for. Amazing you can sue for £20K for someone offering you a chair and thinking of your baby's safety.

Imagine her reaction if a wave had knocked her and baby over. She would've sued for being allowed in there in the first place.