In the news - Breastfeeding 'broke no food rule'

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A mother has been told to stop breastfeeding her baby boy by a swimming pool as it breached a leisure centre's strict poolside ban on food and drink. Skip related content

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A council spokeswoman said: "The rules are that there's definitely no food and drink poolside, but breastfeeding is exempt from that rule. People can breastfeed anywhere."

OMG! laughable really

Sorry, but this has been done

Iam disgusted at that I read it in the Daily Mail today and could not belive it. Isent it illegal for a breastfeeding mother to be told to stop. This is the most natural thing in the world, what is the mother supposed to do with a hungry baby then!

I am equally disgusted at a comment in the Daily Mail on that article from someone under the name of BrightonBelle who said that she is offended with babies drinking from a bit of plastic with cows milk in it. How ignorant of her. She has no idea why each women formula feed, its not necessarily because they choose to ff, but because breastfeeding may not have been successful, difficult birth, baby in SCUBU. These types of comments do nothing to promote breastfeeding, making mums feel like bad mothers.

I expect she is one of the few that see formula is Junk, yes of course breastmilk is better, its tailor made for the baby and has all the antibodies and good things a baby needs, but if a woman for any reason is unable to bf its the only other choice, apart from the baby starving to death.

"The rules are that there's definitely no food and drink poolside, but breastfeeding is exempt from that rule. People can breastfeed anywhere."

Yes of course bfing should be exempt from that rule, but so should bottle feeding as well.

I think that ff should also be exempt, feeding a baby (whether bf or formula) is different to somebody going in with burger chips and coke or sandwiches and eating. A baby NEEDS to be fed whatever the circumstances, to prevent that would be to prevent a basic human need.

totally agree about BOTH bf and ff