Shocked - did anyone else see BBC Look East - breastfeeding........

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story??? just found the story here .

Some of the commments from people about the story (which they apparently had at lunchtime too) were absolutely shocking - "it's disgusting" were among ones that stuck out at me. Not wanting to get into a huge breast/bottle/formula advertising debate about it (as I'm going to work tonight so won't be around to partcipate until tomorrow afternoon/evening.

But I'm sure it's attitudes like that which have a bigger impact on a woman's decision to breastfeed, than some formula advertising.

do I think you're mental...........well, ermm, err, I guess, mmmm...............................

yes

lol at orange juice boob... reminds me of when I was feeding ds on a street bench ( indeed) and a little boy came up and asked what I was doing. On being told I was feeding baby, he asked 'did you put sausage in there?'
the story is absolutely shocking. they didn't have to act on the complaint fgs. they could just have told the complainer it's not illegal and left it at that. they advised her of it 'for her own benefit'... yuk.

It was my fear of comments like that that stopped me feeding. I fed my dd for the first 6 weeks but I found it hard to feed infront of other people in case they went yuk or something like that.
Hopefully I'll be over that if (when) I have another also I'll be alot older and wiser (I'm quite a young mum)
I've got respect for all the mothers out there that can feed their babies anywhere I wish I could of done it for longer
The story shows how ignorant some of the general public can be

I was puzzled (when I caught the end of it on the local news) - why would anyone feed on a bench in a street in the middle of a cold November .

Having read the article I now realise it was in June - so why is it suddenly in the news today ?

I think it should not be a problem feeding anywhere - and most people are so discrete about it few people realise they are doing it.

From the tone of the comments on Look East tonight you could almost hear a generation gap.

How dare they,how fucking dare they??!!!

Ooooooh,I wish the police had stopped me.

Think it's disgusting that women are made to feel embarassed for doing what is completely natural. I happily feed DS anywhere and everywhere just whip it out and if anyone gives me a look or a comment I challenge them on it. Want to find this complaining women and squirt her in the face with boob milk!

just makes me think, if the policeman's partner [if he had one] had breastfed her child, surely he would have just laughed at the complaint and not disturbed the poor mother? I mean, for him to take the complaint seriously is terribly worrying. He should be protecting the mum, not some pervert.

Only heard about this today - was mentioned on breakfast tv, which I never normally see but tuned in briefly to distract me from the breast pump (it works for me, honest!). It is shocking, isn't it? I'm wondering if it's something about East Anglia - I had a complaint from an elderly gent because I sat feeding my ds in my car in the Sainsburys carpark in Norwich recently. He said, "There's a time and a place for such things" FGS!!!!! I muttered something about the place being MY car (he had parked next to me!) and the time beng when ds was hungry, but tbh I was so gobsmacked I couldn't manage the put-down I would have liked. It was upsetting, actually, and I'm not easily bothered by ignorance - emotive stuff. It brought out the cave-man in dh when I told him, though - he was incensed.

"for her own benefit"? "the incident"
ffs

I'm with you moondog, I would love for the police to try and stop me...
and yes it was "for her own benefit..." that stopped me in my tracks...

In terms of 'benefit' - ironic, isn't it, as the mum was simply doing what's best for the 'benefit' of her lo anyway - what's wrong with the world?????

my sister just said - what would the police have said if you had taken along a cow and latched the baby onto the udder
she is a bit surreal my sister

hope you've got at least one of your baps out right now in fact, harpsicordcarrier, just to prove the point of course, am not a hairy handed lorry driver or anything

It's not like she just had her boob out showing it off is it? Blimey, when breastfeeding you can hardly tell and you deffo can't see anything. It's nautral FGS. What about girls out on a saturday night flashing their tits and thongs? Oh, I'm sure that would be encouraged.

i have barely had my norks AWAY for the past three years suzy....
funnily enough I was just thinking about this. planning my first trip out with new baby and thinking about where I can feed her. last time I had a new baby it was the summer and I was thinking how much easier it was just to be able to pop them out on a park bench....

Guess you'd better not risk feeding anywhere near a police station, then, harpsichord carrier - you don't want a police record......

i say
bring
it
on

What shocks me most about this is that the police will act on something that isn't breaking the law! Having recently phoned them about a van driver trying to force my car off the road and got a blanket can't do anything about that, why on earth didn't they tell the complainant that it isn't a police matter? Does that mean that I can complain to the police the next time someone stinky stands too close to me in a shop? Or sits next to me on a bench making a horrible noise eating an apple?

Furball - just what I was thinking! It seems to be perfectly okay for young girls to go around half dressed in the middle of the day, but for a mum to descreetly feed her baby is obviously far too "crude" and "disgsting"!! I wonder if the policeman knew anything about the Human Rights Act - I think it states that a mother has the right to feed her child anywhere, however it is she is feeding it, whether breast or bottle. So, in theory that PC was in breech of the act.

yeah try and get the police to stop a litter dropper
or a dog pooer

I would have squirted the policeman in the eye 'for his own benefit'.

Surely there was a mugging/robbery/parking abuse that warranted attention in the vicinity more than a glimpse of boob, FGS.

pmsl! Perhaps thats why the PC stopped the woman! He might have thought he would get a little peek at a nipple Thrill for the day!

Maybe I could starting complaining to the Police about having to stand in a queue near people with awful BO, personally I find that a bit disgusting - what do you think?

or ugly people
they're offensive too

Not fond of builders' bums, either - unless they're a particularly fine example, of course....