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Infant feeding

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Boots breastfeeding policy - love this

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DitaVonCheese · 27/05/2009 20:16

Just seen this mentioned on another MN thread (from old) and found a copy online - sorry if it's common knowledge on here

Clicky here

Particularly love the bit about customers "offering feedback"

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DentArthurDent · 27/05/2009 21:58

Our local Mothercare at Meadowhall, Sheffield has a room for nursing mothers with the gliding chairs in it, a water fountain and piped gentle music. Next door there is a large room for changing and bottle warming facilities. Its spotlessly clean and I have never been in and there be a smell.
There are 3 Boots stores that I use and none of them afaik has a mother and baby room.

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DitaVonCheese · 27/05/2009 22:06

For those of you wanting to read (or lacking a M&B room), it says you can feed in the manager's office and have a good rifle through his desk

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wastingmyeducation · 27/05/2009 22:13

I had a look at that feeding room in Meadowhall DentArthurDent, and would have been unable to feed in it due to gliding chairs. Nice though.
I find all nappy-changing facilities inadequate due to not enough room to fold terries.
I am difficult to please.

BexieID · 27/05/2009 22:14

I know theres a feeding room in the Boots in The Oracle in Reading. Theres several feeding/changing combo rooms in the shopping centres in Glasgow. Will need to reaqauint myself with them all when DC2 arrives in December!

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DitaVonCheese · 28/05/2009 00:20

I was so gutted when I learned that the Oracle was a shopping centre. It was so mysterious and exciting when you just saw it signposted from the motorway with no clue as to what it was.

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chipmonkey · 28/05/2009 00:30

Well, they've changed their tune since one of their assistants years ago told me that breastfeeding babies was "bad for them"

trixymalixy · 28/05/2009 00:33

The boots near us has a room with a gliding chair in it.

Ozziegirly · 28/05/2009 05:20

I agree DitaVonCheese. I always used to think "ah yes, Delphi, twinned with Reading"

completelyabsolutely · 28/05/2009 09:02

The Mothercare near to us has a scabby room next to the toilets for feeding so I was when I went in to feed dd in the room in Mothercare in Cardiff.

It is obviously much newer and was lovely.

There is a big and very clean changing room and then a seperate room with a sofa and gliding chair, dim lights, piped music - and a nice touch I think - a water cooler, within reach of the sofa so you can get a drink at that crucial, my mouth is like the gobi desert moment as soon as you start bf.

HullabaLuLu · 28/05/2009 09:27

I've used the feeding room in Boots in Leeds a few times. I am always gutted if someone else has bagged the glider and I have to use one of those plastic school chairs. I've passed the time correcting people who think dd is a ds talking to other mums. The room is a bit shabby though.

I like John Lewis baby rooms and Mamas & Papas.

M&S in Chester - very grim.

I might produce a guide, I've visited a fair few.

I prefer to feed dd in a coffee shop though. Much more interesting/less smelly and I can eat/drink while feeding her.

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DitaVonCheese · 28/05/2009 10:06

Ozzie it will tell you all you need to know about the state of my education if I say that I was thinking more of the Matrix than ancient Greece

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EachPeachPearMum · 28/05/2009 12:10

bananafriutbat that whole mothercare is gone now!
haven't been in the new one yet...

stainesmassif · 28/05/2009 14:46

hello hulla, i've considered producing a guide to feeding rooms over the last couple of months. i also seriously considered producing a guide to clean toilets whilst travelling round india. (without ds) so important!

HullabaLuLu · 28/05/2009 15:45

Hey staines , I spy a nice little series of books there. Dragon's Den?

stainesmassif · 28/05/2009 17:06

ooh, i can see it now, we could design them to fit into one of the bounty bag pockets, or to be given away with bounty bags, then all the shops would want to be listed in our little book and would all improve their facilities. we would be the toast of the nation!!

HullabaLuLu · 28/05/2009 17:51

LOL

CookieMonster2 · 28/05/2009 21:31

Its OK DitaVonCheese, I was thinking of a database. That def says something about my education

BelleWatling · 28/05/2009 22:09

I have never used a 'nursing room' - what's wrong with t'pub?

beetlemum · 28/05/2009 23:14

lol at belle, i would never use a 'nursing room" either usually preferring a cafe/ pub / library/ park bench etc. i conside it my civic duty to get me baps out at any opportunity

GothAnneGeddes · 29/05/2009 02:30

DVC - That wouldn't be a Mother's Room, that would be heaven. I'd bagsy Jemaine for the foot massage, as I think he'd be able to put more oomph into it then Bret.

AlexanderPandasMum · 29/05/2009 23:02

Whoever said about the Mothercare feeding room in B'ham was right - it was lovely and I ised to go there often. Then, they moved to Corporation St and don't have a feeding room there - just a changing and feeding sort of area with stinky nappy bins .

Actually, the manager was talking to me before the move and smugly told me that there wouldn't be a feeding room in the next one (almost gleeful, probably because I used it so often!) and when I asked why not she said that they did a survey and lots of people were using the feeding room but not buying anything. I felt like telling her that she was being very, very shortsighted and if she couldn't make an opportunity out of having so many people have to walk right through the shop then she was obviously not doing the best job!

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DitaVonCheese · 29/05/2009 23:09

Goth I am liking the level of thought you have put into that. I completely agree - though having said that I'm not particularly fussy about who I get foot massages from ...

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Scaredycat3000 · 31/05/2009 16:25

Mil told me the tea rooms we where eating in were in the good breatfeeding guide (Princes tearooms in Pontypridd)so as my one was starting to look hungry I asked and was lead up to the back a quietish room, not bad for a small independent old fashioned business that make exellent custard slices! Peter Jones in Slone square had quite a nice nursing room, but Mothercare in Croydon was nasty.

Scaredycat3000 · 31/05/2009 16:33

Oh and in my local fabric shop when he started screaming for food the shop assistant asked if I was breast feeding and promply put a chair in a quiet/discret corner of the big shop and left me to it!

TBM · 31/05/2009 17:38

That's lovely! It makes me feel a little better about their magazine that says something about "your baby should be weaned before six months" and some reason about them accepting it, I think, I'll look when I get home for the quote. Written by a dietitian so looks like he should know what he's talking about right?

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