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Today I breastfed in a public swimming pool

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thezoobmeister · 27/08/2013 22:01

Not to make a statement or anything, just that DD needed it and I thought it would be a lot more obvious if I got out and sat at the side (small swimming pool).

I was discreet - I did not do helicopters with my norks or spray fellow swimmers with booby milk. No one complained or called the police.

Just wanted to get that off my chest Smile

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YoniMontana · 27/08/2013 23:11

Meh

pigleychez · 27/08/2013 23:14

Wasn't this on This Morning last week.. A woman and her baby boy. She was asked to BF out of the water as it was unhygienic.

Hmm
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thezoobmeister · 27/08/2013 23:15

Genuinely not looking for applause (don't need strangers approval, though always nice to have if course)

Just there's been debate about BFing in pool recently and I was intrigued by how opinions seem to be poles apart. I did it today out of necessity and was interested to know what others thought. Will get this thread moved to BF forum.

Also don't understand why babies are allowed in pools if they're that filthy!

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Edendance · 27/08/2013 23:16

In the pool= unnecessary, but then you know that, hense why you did it, and am posting about it.

Get out and feed by the side, there's a reason the cafe isn't smack bang in the middle of the water.

kikid · 27/08/2013 23:18

Wish bf was seen normal anywhere, the more it is normalised the better for everyone, especially the babies.
Keep up the good work....

paperclipsarebetterthanstaples · 27/08/2013 23:18

Comfort sucking isn't a necessity.

frogspoon · 27/08/2013 23:18

Your milk, a type of bodily fluid, probably dripped into the pool.

Gross.

Helltotheno · 27/08/2013 23:19

Pools are a hotbed of all sorts of blech... to which I'm pretty much immune after years of swimming. But I'd never bf a baby in one.. just.. yuck then again I'm dead finicky me

tryasimight · 27/08/2013 23:21

I actually did something pretty crap at the pool in the week, which I regretted.

Took my toddler into the communal showers after our swim - they are set into an alcove and it was a quiet day and I thought as I had shampood her hair I would whip her swimsuit off quickly so she could get a proper rinse as no one was around.

And then, just as I did that a middle aged guy got into the shower right next to her and I'm standing there with a naked toddler right next to a grown stranger and thinking 'why did I try to get away with something because nobody could notice' only to be reminded that actually there were people going about their business not expecting to Mother's to be acting like the swimming pool were their own front room.

So anyway, I learned something from my own inappropriate behaviour.

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thezoobmeister · 27/08/2013 23:22

Ouch, that hurt eden.

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chocolatecrispies · 27/08/2013 23:22

I did it too and was asked to get out. In my case there was a reason for staying in - I was with ds too who couldn't stay in the water unless I was in and who refused to get out so I could bf.

Edendance · 27/08/2013 23:27

I stand by it. If you didn't see anything unusual about it, you wouldn't have posted- others don't post about feeding their children on the sofa. This indicates that it's an attention thing. Totally up to you but it is unnecessary to feed in a swimming pool, you can't eat or drink in a pool and feeding milk to a baby is both of those things and therefore shouldn't be (and often isnt) allowed.

5madthings · 27/08/2013 23:30

Its fine to bfeed in the pool and also you are legally allowed to do so.

ARF at being worried about bmilk in the pool' even if the op didtn fed she will likely leak milk, so if you dotn want milk in the pool you would need to ban all lactating women. Bmilk in the pool is the least of your worries.

Op it's fien, you comforted your baby and whilst feeding she was actually safer in that she wouldmt be swallowing any pool water as there is a seal on the breasts as she nurses.

Anyway its the same ole arguments being hashed out again, maybe some people should have read the links on the other threads about this and educate themselves.

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thezoobmeister · 27/08/2013 23:30

So when we do something unusual, the reason is always that it's for attention?

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Capitola · 27/08/2013 23:31

I would have got out to do it. I'd rather be conspicuous than do it in a public pool, which is a bit odd.

5madthings · 27/08/2013 23:32

Except it is not only allowed it is legally protected :)

I also dotn see the problem with a toddler being naked in the showers at a pool, she is a toddler, little children often strip off in the showers at the pool. So do some adults if they are single sex showers. Either way a toddler being naked in a shower is no big deal.

Edendance · 27/08/2013 23:33

When it's been massively controversial, then you do it, then you post on a parenting website about how you did it but with no actual point, yes.

Edendance · 27/08/2013 23:34

*massively controversial in the news

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thezoobmeister · 27/08/2013 23:35

capitola that is really interesting. Can you explain more about 'odd' please?

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TheSecondComing · 27/08/2013 23:35

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thezoobmeister · 27/08/2013 23:41

No actual point? Certainly not, I was after some intelligent debate.
You sound very irritated though eden. I am surprised by how vehement some of the opinions on this thread have been.

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MichaelBubleBath · 27/08/2013 23:44

Still Confused why this is A Thing for anybody but then again i live in a country where people get their boobs and moobs out in a park called the English garden - oh the irony, we are the biggest prudes in Europe

I read all about the flesh mob the other week, how did the flashboobs thing in Manchester go?
On that other thread noone confirmed What Swimming Nappies Actually Do.
I take from this we are all swimming in wee - hence La Piscine Grin
Gets coat and heaves.

TheSecondComing · 27/08/2013 23:44

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PeriodMath · 27/08/2013 23:45

Yawn. Bully for you. Did you have a fruit shoot in there too?

Oh well, you showed the bastards. Hmm

BOF · 27/08/2013 23:45

Love your name, MichaelBubleBath Grin