to think something is wrong with the story about mum being made to stand and breastfeed on the train?

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Longest title ever? Sorry!

Breastfeeding mum forced to stand on rush hour train www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-45421266

Anyone think this is a little... fishy? I'm 8 months pregnant and am ALWAYS offered a seat. I've also never not been offered a seat when I've had a tiny baby in a sling with me (though that hasn't been for a little while now).

I really, REALLY don't think that on a full carriage that nobody bothered to offer a breast feeding mum a seat?

Maybe I'm naive or people in the Midlands, on extremely jam packed trains are just nicer than elsewhere, but I just can't get my head round this.

Has anyone ever experienced this before?

I believe it. I use to get the bus every morning to drop my kids to school holding my baby as I couldnt get ob with the pram (bus would always be packed) I was never offered a seat despite standing holding a baby.

Thinking anout it more I was never offered a seat whilst pregnant either. I actually remember finally getting a seat after standing on 2 buses and an old lady sat next to me. A few stops later another old lady got on and the woman next to me told me I should get up to give the other lady the seat! I was heavily pregnant, and exhausted. I refused. What annoyed me more was there was 2 kids in the seats infront of us, I cant see why she didnt say it to them rather than the heavily pregnant lady!

I would probably not notice her unless she was stood in my eyeline and usually on trains I'm either reading or asleep. If I had noticed her, I'd have offered, but yes, if she didn't ask, she's clearly doing it deliberately and has now got lots of people reading her blog.

I thought she sounded extremely entitled when I read this yesterday.

I'm not surprised by no-one offering, but feel that she should have asked. A little surprised the baby was not indicating the need for a feed (crying perhaps?).

She should have asked (especially when someone else nicked the seat that another passenger offered her), but I don’t see what’s ‘entitled’ about thinking you should get a seat when you’re carrying a small baby. Or pregnant, or disabled, or elderly, or anything else that the priority seats are for.

It’s only good manners to offer a seat if you notice someone in greater need of it standing, and it’s not always true that people genuinely haven’t noticed.