Oh dear my DH upset someone!

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Took our DS to the soft play today. It's a new one with a restaurant and large waiting space with chairs/ dining area.
My DH took our son inside the soft play area and was watching him, it was pretty busy with lots of parents and kids on this under 4 area.
Another parent was sat in the ball pool with her boy who marched up to her, yelled "mummy!", she then whipped out her boob in the ball pool and proceeded to breast feed her son.
It sort of caught my DH by surprise so he looked away to which the woman challenged him and said, "what's your problem?" My husband replied that food and drink shouldn't be consumed in the soft play area and the woman called him a fucking cunt. It was just a really odd scenario with a couple of parents moving their child away and someone muttering mind your language ( who she also told to fuck off.)
We aren't adverse to breast feeding in public and I still do but in the ball pool?!

That is so funny....it's fab...😂😂😂😂

I don’t think the OP is a troll just that this scenario is a bit embellished.

But why though? Surely it's more comfortable by taking a few steps out of the pit? There's other children who probably want to play in it.

I love how people try to make mothers bf elsewhere by declaring somewhere else 'more comfortable'.

There is no logical reason why BFing in a ball pool would be a problem. If you can hold a baby in there, you can BF a baby in there.

Well at least the child being fed wasn't 15.

I could whip out my breast. Just sayin'.

If this really happened, she sounds like a breast feeder who likes to make sure everyone know she breast feeds.

Rather than just getting on with it some people like to dramatise it just to make sure everyone sees. Some like to insinuate people have a problem with it so they can have a row. There are of course normal people too who just feed their baby however they do without creating a song and dance about it!

If everyone treated breast feeding like any other method of feeding there wouldn't be so much drama! There have been women in the news feeding in swimming pools and all sorts. The ball pit it is the same, absolutely no need. Just step out of the ball pit and away from the excitable kids bouncing all over the place and find a comfortable spot in the seating/cafe/waiting area?! I doubt many bottle feeders would decide to feed in a ball pit or a swimming pool, it's not comfy or a particularly nice place to eat!? She sounds like a sandwich short of a picnic to react that way.

In turn, nobody should be shamed for breastfeeding or directed to the toilet or the broom cupboard.

The easily pleased are out in force. RIP so many mouthfuls of tea.

She’s legally entitled to breastfeed anywhere she wants to. Literally anywhere.

She was very unreasonable to use the language she did.

I can make my boobs clap so I fully intend to attempt making the whip sound with them.

*I could whip out my breast. Just sayin'.
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Can you tie them in a knot, can you tie them in a bow, can you throw them over your shoulder 🎶

Whipping out a breast.. did it make a cracking sound wins the internet hands down today.

This is either highly exaggerated due to sheer boredom with nothing better to do on a Saturday eve: however if it did happen I would've probably thought that mum was having a particularly rough time that day.
I'd think it odd if I saw someone breastfeeding in a ball pool just because as another PP said about possible fecal matter, hygiene issues and also being climbed on by excitable children. It's certainly the most unusual place I've heard of a mum feeding her child.

Whipped? Whipped out her breast? How fucking long was it? confused did it make the whipcrack sound?

I laughed far longer than necessary at that, cheers man

@chickensdontpocktheypeck Like a regimental soldier with a massive estrogen habit.

The ball pit it is the same, absolutely no need.

The baby needed feeding so there was a need. The mother felt comfortable to meet that need in the ball pit. Nobody else's opinion about it is at all relevant.

Again, telling BFing mothers that they will be 'more comfortable' somewhere else is unacceptable. What you're doing is telling them to feed in a place that make you feel more comfortable and that is not something she should ever be under pressure to consider.

Stop telling BFing mothers where they will feel comfortable. They can all work that out for themselves thank you very much.

@Passmethecrisps I'm not sure really. I'm not bothered by the language (hear much worse on daily bases for the job that I do - same for DH)
The ball pool was tiny (2x2 metres max) as was the rest of the soft play with lots of kids and adults in it. The ball pool was like the central highlight and lots of kids gravitated towards it.

You 'whap' out a boob Op, not whip. A big'un would make the whap sound, skin on skin 😁

@Andysbestadventure sadly, mine are not large enough it's make either a whap or a whip :(

The baby needed feeding so there was a need. The mother felt comfortable to meet that need in the ball pit. Nobody else's opinion about it is at all relevant.

So doesn't matter about the kids who are there to play and jump about? Having a grown up plonked in there taking up space and meaning they have to carefully move around them would be a bit annoying.

Babies can wait 10 seconds for the milk to reach them!

Generally don't care where anyone breastfeeds, anywhere that anybody else eats and drinks goes! But their needs and wants don't automatically trump others when they are planning to breastfeed in a silly or inconvenient place.

I genuinely don’t want to be making an issue but I find all of this so hard to imagine. Thanks for the clarification though, op.

Genuinely, had my husband responded in the way yours did I would have thought he was being a smart arse. She was clearly uptight for whatever reason (being judged likely) and was massively inappropriate with it.

The set up of your story made me wince a little as well. The child approached his mum and asked in a way which they understand for milk. I am afraid judgement of a walking talking child requesting a breastfeed comes over even if unintentional.

Her swearing was outrageous. That is clear.

@Timandra would you like to eat in a germ ridden ball pit surrounded by other children running around? Anyway it doesn't affect me in the slightest so not arsed, but maybe if it was the central bit of the soft play people wanted to play in it (wild concept I know) rather than manoeuvre round.

@Passmethecrisps sorry. I think I was trying to write the post light hearted but it's come across badly. My dh is a genuinely lovely man who wouldn't have meant to intentionally cause the woman distress with his comment. I think he just reacted to her question. Perhaps I should have posted in chat.

@MediocreOmens I ignore comments like yours as not a troll?

@Sandybval, it's not about where I would like to eat. It's about where that mother felt comfortable to BF.

The OP hasn't mentioned her having any impact on or making any demands of the children playing in there.

We need to get past this idea that other people get to tell mothers where to feed their babies. They don't.

@DCITennison

The easily pleased are out in force. RIP so many mouthfuls of tea.

Yep. And RIP so many keyboards, as the tea is splurted out all over them, because what (allegedly) happened is SOOOOOOOOO hilarious. 🙄

Someone hand me a needle and thread so I can sew up my sides.