BFing likened to 'peeing in pool' at Manchester Aquatics Centre, BF Flash mob tomorrow morning!

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For anyone in Manchester tomorrow morning, get down to this!

Apologies if this has already been posted but thought I should share here.

I seriously doubt you could argue that there are legitimate h&s concerns with bf in a swimming pool. The example given is "near to certain chemicals or radiation". Seeing as the chlorine in the pool is safe for people to swim in, then it would not be dangerous to bf in it.

All the other supposed h&s concerns that people have raised on this thread have quite clearly been disproved, IMO.

I don't understand why it's so difficult for mothers to plan their breastfeeding around being out in public. I understand it's sometimes unavoidable, but surely you'd want it to be a private thing? All these women who ''sell their story'' to the press just appear to be attention-seeking, and it does harm to the perception of breastfeeding mothers. Most women want to do it discreetly, but occasionally you'll accidentally catch the eye of one of these militant breastfeeding women and she'll glare at you as if daring you to say something. It's quite intimidating. And if you can't ''soothe'' your baby by any other method than breastfeeding, then you need to reassess.

What a load of prejudiced, ignorant, closed minded codswallop.

Some people will do anything for a moment of fame. The whole thing is a farce. Nobody was prevented from breastfeeding. Only told not to breastfeed in a swimming pool which after all is for swimming. Sounds a bit of a planned moneyspinner to me. Interview on the TV story to papers. Pathetic!

I have to admit that I DID giggle at the "bodily fluids" thing.....like the pool had not been inundated with hundreds of kids peeing in the pool already that day.

Never read the news properly..was the Mum actually IN the pool? Or feeding by the pool....and surely she can be leaking milk anyway if breastfeeding. It's no biggie is it...far rather breastmilk than the gallons of wee usually in there.

Is that Chloe 1989 or Chloe1889. Fact is that women have lives and freedom now.....and do do their babies who might well need feeding. I have seen lots of women breastfeeding in public but I am a midwife so know what breastfeeding looks like. On most occasions gou would not have known

All this thread proves is that things haven't moved on much from 1962.

They really haven't.

Attitudes among WOMEN against other women breastfeeding are still as furiously stupid as they ever were, despite legislation, despite research, despite everything.

It's really depressing.

What is really depressing is that people are not applying common sense. If people want to feed their child while abseiling down the Eifel tower. Well OK. But don't expect me to think of them anything other than idiots. Sorry but the woman was told not to breastfeed in the swimming pool. Not prevented from breastfeeding.

Viviennemary, do you understand that women have the right to breastfeed where they like (with a few exceptions - a swimming pool not being one of them), according to the Equalities Act. The member of staff who told her to stop was therefore breaking the law. You (or I for that matter) wouldn't necessarily want to breastfeed in a swimming pool, but that doesn't mean that other women should not. Just because she was told that she could feed in the toilets or changing rooms doesn't make it ok.

This thread is like Groundhog Day...

Yup, coming down the eiffel tower is a renowned accidental breastfeeding hotspot.

Totally.

I'm amazed in fact that anyone survives it, let alone a swimming pool breastfeeding incident which is far, far more dangerous, especially if you do it sitting down in the shallow bit.

Lordy, how can I keep my lolloping ol' bosoms from just poking on out when I'm next using a chain saw? I MUST BE STOPPED.

I even did it on a BEACH today.

FFS

Rooners