Disgraceful incident - Bristol

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This poor woman, shame on you First Bus, Bristol

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That would be illegal in sCotland! Hopefully they will roll out the law to the other less civilised regions of the UK :-)

Working link to story

what was she supposed to do? let her baby starve? or stay house-bound? It looks like a tiny tot who couldn't go long without feeing

Thanks for re-doing link!

A six-week old baby! What is wrong with people?! Honestly. Good on Amy Wootten for sticking up for herself on the bus, for complaining to the bus company afterwards, and for giving such an articulate interview. I hope this raises some awareness about the ridiculous attitudes some people apparently still hold.

WTF???

The world is full of truly ignorant fuckers isn't it??

Poor girl.

He'd have had to physically remove me from his bus the c*nt.

Cannot believe some of the ignorant comments on the article.

HOnestly.

This also happened to a lovely lady I knew who attend a peer support training group with me.

Also a First bus and she was sat with/near another mother also feeding her baby. The breast-feeder was chucked off the bus into the rain and the formula fed baby and mother was allowed to stay on...pure discrimination.

Why would nobody stick up for the woman on the bus.

I can't believe people stood by and watch her being carted off the bus with a baby in the rain.

And who the hell would complain?

I would have said go on then, call the police then, I am going to call First.

Mnd you, but much to expect a woman with a 6 wek old to do that, with a bus full of people as well.

But someone on that bus should have done it for her. Shame on them for not.

I wish she had demanded that the driver did call the police. I certainly wouldn't have got off the bus.

Why didn't any of the other passengers stand up for her?

Absolutely disgusting, that poor woman must've been mortified. Why a fellow passenger did not stand up to her is beyong me.

Some of the comments under the article are truly shocking too.

This really worries me actually - she had to get a taxi home and it's likely she didn't have a car seat with her - what a horrible risk to put a 6 week old baby through just because some ignoramus can't look the other way.

The comments on the article are laughable too (it is the DM i suppose) - breastfeeding mothers should use bottles in public!

I don't know why, but I am particularly amazed that this happened in Bristol. I go there quite a lot as that's where my ILs are and it always strikes me as being quite a 'right-on' kind of city.

Hopefully I'll be a bit braver when DD2 is born, but when DD1 was a baby I used to dread her needing a feed when we were out & about. I never denied her, but I wasn't terribly comfortable doing it...probably because of the attitudes like the twunty bus driver

It's awful! Hope the driver got a proper telling off.

shame on bristol bus ,i would of stuck up for the woman cant belive no one on the bus did

Riven has some interesting takes on first bus in Bristol as well

Bastards

Disgraceful

If only I still bf.

If only I lived anywhere near Bristol.

I think there should be a MN show of unity, and have the buses packed out with bf mums!

oooohhhh I love your idea Cat...

and shame on the bus driver and the passengers for not stikcing up for her

We could have a 'boob in' ...it's certainly scare bus drivers from doing it again ;-))

It beggars belief. It also makes me think that the pro breastfeeding campaigners need to educate the public too judging from some of the pig ignorant comments made. I was particularly shocked by the commenters' suggestions that:

1)BFing mothers should only go out between feeds.
2)BFing mothers should express milk in case their babies need feeding in public
3) More than one commenter compared breastfeeding to defecating and urinating.
4)Even women, and even other breastfeeding women were saying they don't like to see that in public!

No wonder our BFing stats as a nation are so poor- people like this make it so intimidating. I BFed in a soft play centre when DS2 was about 8 days old and a grandad on the next table started tutting and rolling his eyes. I like to think I am brave and right but it dawned on me that I haven't done it since and always take a carton now. Sad.