Breastfeeding in a swimming pool? Wtf!

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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6078617/Stoke-mother-furious-swimming-instructor-asked-leave-pool-breastfeeding-toddler.html

I can’t believe what I’ve just read!

I know, if a baby wants to be fed they should be fed, and I'm pretty sure it's against the law to ask someone to stop breastfeeding in a public place! Disgraceful!

You wouldn't bottle feed or eat a sandwich in a pool. And I am a breast feeder!

In the pool? What a twat

I'm all for supporting BF, but wtf? Who feeds their child in a pool, what if you squirt, baby vomits etc. Absolutely not discrimination, you can't formula feed in a pool either.

I remember there was HUGE thread on this very topic on here years ago - totally polarised opinions!

I think she probably could have got out and at least done it on the side, but then again, what is the harm of doing it in the pool?

Yes I guess if the baby vomited that would be a bit gross. Defo best to get out to breastfeed I think!

I'm a BF and feed publicly all the time, but feeding in the pool is totally inappropriate IMO - you wouldn't serve the bairn a sandwich in the water and milk should be no different.
Also wouldn't the kid be able to taste chlorine? That would put me off my food!

Pools are a hive of germs and chemicals, a totally inappropriate place to feed.

Mum and baby give good Daily Mail sad face but the two older brothers need to up their game.

Never mind the bf in the pool, why would you bring your toddler to a pre-arranged swim lesson without giving them someone to eat beforehand?

I’d have more sympathy if this was a small baby, but he’s 18 months and the article says it was a feeding. Time. Surely you’d anticipate that and feed him before leaving the house?

After feeding at the side, boobs can still leak and babies can still vomit when back in the pool.
I'd forbid both lactating women and babies under 18 yoa to go anywhere near the pool.

You wouldn't feed a child anything else in a pool so why would you bf them in a pool

Also, where was the father in all of this?

I don't think you can forbid lactating women from anywhere 🤦🏻‍♀️
I'm a breast feeder and no, I wouldn't in the pool because of chemicals etc but I don't think it's a big deal. Certainly not worthy of the newspaper

Public swimming pools are disgusting. Would she give her other children a snack in a place awash with dirty bottoms, phlegm, old plasters, poo crumbs and chlorine?
I breastfed my two for ages in most locations but I wouldn’t have fed them in a swimming pool any more than I would have fed them in a loo cubicle.

@Lweji I'll bite. What's the father got to do with anything

I'm a huge breastfeeding advocate but IN the pool?! Wouldn't your boobs be all chloriney?

Mum and baby give good Daily Mail sad face but the two older brothers need to up their game.

Absolutely ridiculous, I bf both of my sons, never in a pool though! I wouldn’t have dreamt of doing so.

I think it’s disgusting quite honestly the pool is full of chemicals, who would eat a meal in a swimming pool?

The mother should have left the pool and bf poolside.

Fucks sake. Its just a bit of milk - its hardly cyanide.

I wouldn't fee in a pool because I'd rather sit down comfortably, but I also couldn't give a fuck if someone else decided to feed in the water.

The child is 18 months not a newborn, he should’ve eaten before the prebooked swimming lesson she knew she was taking him too. Completely unnecessary to feed in the pool.

@Lweji I'll bite. What's the father got to do with anything

Everything. I'd LTB.

*to! I feel like daily mail commenter.

I think she’s in the wrong here- just get out ffs.

Also, if the child was 18 months at the time and there were no other issues, surely she should’ve anticipated this? DS (20
Months) has a snack before swimming and then he’s fine. I’m sure if she gave her hold a feed before getting in the water, he would’ve been fine for what was probably a half hour lesson max? He’s not a newborn ffs!