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?!

She's at the soft play starting arguments and calling people fucking cunts. I don't think it's worth worrying about, she's obviously just nuts. Ignore her.

She’s nuts but - and I seem to be in the minority here - your husband is odd for finding breastfeeding so awkward and then making that stupid joke. Is breastfeeding in a ball pit such a big deal?

I am an ardent believer that 'breast is best' (but hey it's your choice) however...if the child is old enough to march across and demand to be fed it is old enough to wait a few minutes until mother and child have moved out of ball pit!

Manners and common sense don't cost much. Swearing in front of the children is just vile.

I don't think your husband did anything wrong. He looked away because he felt uncomfortable. The mother would have told him off if he had looked at her.
Was he just supposed to ignore her swearing at him? No food and drink is the rule. Would it be different if she had climbed in the ball pool with a sandwich and a drink for her child ?

I don't think she was wrong for BF there her swearing after was obviously.

But I don't think your DH was wrong either, sounds like he attempted to make a joke after. I'm not sure why people are saying his initial reaction was wrong. Sometimes things throw you off when you're not expecting it to pretend otherwise is ridiculous.

Sure it did.

She sounds like a crank.

What's he meant to do - stand there and stare at her. She sounds like a complete mouth breather tbh speaking like that to ppl in a children's play area.

I have no issue with breastfeeding and applaud women who have the confidence to do it in public, BUT I would get funny about the hygiene aspect sitting amongst the balls.

This is exactly why I don't do these play gym places, they are breeding grounds

Rubbish. I point blank don't believe a breastfeeding mum called someone a cunt for looking away. This just didn't happen.

Your DH just looked away out of politeness it seems and then struggled to respond to what she said. He didn't do anything wrong, poor guy!!

BF mother: rude, but maybe obnoxious due to being adrenalised expecting comments from randomers every time she feeds.

DH: condescending twit who I would've wanted to give a slap.

OP: YABU

Cool story bro.

I BF both of my two, but never in a ball pit! I also have never seen a mother/dad bottle feeding a baby in a ball pit either for that matter!

Her language was entirely inappropriate too. Disgusting with little ears around.

Should have been chucked out for the language that along with her whip cracking bosom! 🤣

You dh was entitled to say what he said in response to her question. So what would have been the correct response to her feeding her child? Looked away, got a comment. Stayed looking, would've got a comment. Stand up, cheer and punch the air shouting "Breast Is Best"? Would've been removed from the place pretty sharpish.
No win situation

What is going on this morning? Multiple threads of utter bollocks

Going out on a limb here and going to say the woman swearing in the ballpit probably has a blog and is on high alert at all times for incidences while breastfeeding to massively overreact to so she can whip her 11 followers into a frenzy, get them to leave negative reviews and ultimately end up on Angry People In Local Newspapers (hilarious FB page)

Surely you'd want people to look away rather than stare at your boob... sounds like she just wanted a confrontation.

I am an ardent believer that 'breast is best' (but hey it's your choicesmile) however...if the child is old enough to march across and demand to be fed it is old enough to wait a few minutes until mother and child have moved out of ball pit!

If it's OK for her to sit in the ball pit to play with her child, it isn't an issue for her to stay there while BFing him.

The comments about hygiene are a bit weird. I genuinely can't see why him feeding makes the cleanliness of the balls suddenly so important. He's feeding from her boob, not the balls.

She was the one being arsey - would she have preferred he stared at her?

My husband replied that food and drink shouldn't be consumed in the soft play area

What a dick!

Yeah, your husband doesn't come off well here. I can't see a big deal with feeding in a ball pit, her swearing was shit though.

Whip, whap, whop!

call 111.

My husband replied that food and drink shouldn't be consumed in the soft play area

Brilliant!

OP, your DH did nothing wrong. She was simply spoiling for a fight.