Driving lessons & breastfeeding

[PeppersTheCat]

Are driving lessons all 2 hours long these days?? I'm breastfeeding my 2 month old and was very excited to pay for and book my first driving lessons. However when I phoned to arrange my first lesson, the company "Pass & Go" said that lessons were 2 hours long and this was non-negotiable. They didn't care that I was breastfeeding. I told them I couldn't be away from baby for 2 hours and expected lessons would be 1 hour. They didn't care. In the end I had to ask for a refund (they charged me £10 to refund). AIBU to be upset? :( I can't express very well. Does this mean I can't learn to drive until baby is weaned?

Discrimination really?

Go elsewhere or wait until you have longer gals in feeding time. Simple.

Gaps

Square I wouldn't have been happy leaving my 2 month old EBF baby for two hours, for a driving lesson. I'd be worried we'd get caught in a traffic jam and at that age, they can feed more often than 2 hourly. Or was that just mine?hmm

Oh, for sure. Those first few weeks can be brutal.
By 2 mths I was happy to leave for a few hours. Feed, leave, feed. I had competent carers who weren't going to freak out if baby cried. Still can't see the issue with a 2 hr lesson

I think that if you paid online you have 14 days to change your mind and get a full refund, isn't it so?
Anyway, go with an independent instructor OP, they are much better, good luck!

I wouldn't leave baby for 2 hours at 2 months, each to their own!

Wombling, apologies, I should have clarified.
I certainly do not mean all bf mums act as if they are special.
What I meant is that - and you see it all the time on here - bf mums are encouraged to think their rights override everyone else's. That doesn't mean all bf act on the advice, but it is always given. Eg a thread on here a while ago about a bf mum who thought she was entitled to free hospital food because she was bf; A thread on here recently about people who didn't care how much of their breast was on show while bf got some pretty robust responses to support the OP.
All I am saying was in the light of militant bf supporters, some mums can maybe get a bit carried away with how important their bf actually is?
Anyway, I think I have just dug myself into an even bigger hole and am about to be buried!

Glad you clarified Cath as I too thought your post was way off the mark. There’s no way society treats BFing mothers as “special”, in fact in the real world, they are made to feel Bfing should be hidden away.

To be honest I think they should have refunded you if it wasn’t stated that minimum time was 2 hours. Also I think as someone said you might have a right to be refunded in full as paid online. If you can be bothered to chase it up.

Go with an independent instructor and do a trial lesson before commiting to see if you like them and their teaching style. I’m on instructor number 6 and have had good ones and terrible ones. Mine does 2 hour lessons but others have done 1 and 1.5 so you just need to ask around. I find 2 hours a bit long to concentrate and I guess you might do too as your baby is so young still. You might, however, need longer lessons as you get nearer the test if your test centre is in a different town.
Good luck with it all.

OP didn't read the terms and conditions where it was stated that all lessons are 2 hours. RTFT people

I think youve learned a valuable lesson here OP, never pay upfront for something when you don't know what you are getting.

Go to a local instructor not a big company, youll learn much better from a personal service. and 1 hr is the standar lesson round here but the test area where we learn is a 15 min drive so to get the full 1 hr lesson we pay for 1.5hrs of the instructors time.

What I meant is that - and you see it all the time on here - bf mums are encouraged to think their rights override everyone else's. That doesn't mean all bf act on the advice, but it is always given. Eg ... A thread on here recently about people who didn't care how much of their breast was on show while bf got some pretty robust responses to support the OP.

How was that breastfeeding mothers thinking their rights override other people's? The point is that breastfeeders do have the right to feed publicly, if that means some or even all of their breast being on show the law says that's fine. That was just people upholding what the law (rightly) says.