Bristol Mother Suckers

sassyblue

Norma_Desmond wrote: »

I wouldn't dream of picking my nose, belching or farting in a restaurant and I don't expect mothers to breastfeed in one.

Not sure you can compare nasty bodily functions with feeding a baby....

I used to drape a shawl over me, it's not right that breastfeeding mothers get stick for feeding in public but that's how some people can be. Plus when you're a mother to young children yourself you dread your little one shouting something across a cafe alerting everyone to what's going on. :cool::rotfl:

luxor4t

lazer wrote: »

... I find that people breastfeeding their babies ....

I used to wish DH would take a turn sometimes

All power to the mothers ... shame it's too late for me to join in.

flashnazia

Breastfeeding is fine, natural etc and people should be able to feed where they like.

Just don't shove it in my face or rub bottle-feeders noses in it that's all.

AFiancee

molerat wrote: »

It is civil law in England so the owner would have to be sued in the County Court. In Scotland it is a criminal offence.

anon123456 and Norma Desmond and lazer, a little light reading for you http://www.maternityaction.org.uk/si...ublicplace.pdf

Service providers must not discriminate, harass or victimise a woman because she is breastfeeding. Discrimination includes refusing to provide a service, providing a lower standard of service or providing a service on different terms. Therefore, a cafe owner cannot ask you to stop breastfeeding or refuse to serve you.

The cafe did not refuse to serve her or ask her to stop breastfeeding though did they?

Nicki

If you click on the link, the cafe owner followed her out of the cafe and screamed at her that she was permanently banned and never to get her f*ing baps out in her cafe again. Which I think is fairly clear victimisation and harassment under anyone's definition.

If people don't like to see women breastfeeding in a cafe, perhaps the answer is for them not to eat out, rather than demanding that breastfeeding mothers not be allowed to feed outside of their own homes? Most people don't have a problem with it, but if you are in the minority who do, then the remedy is in your own hands.

I personally find any form of facial piercing utterly repulsive, particularly nose and eyebrow, and it would completely put me off my lunch if I were sitting with someone who had this in my eyeline. But facial piercing is not illegal and it is someone else's personal choice to do that, so if I found myself in a cafe where I could not avoid seeing someone with them, then it would be up to me to leave and find somewhere else to have lunch or coffee where there wasn't someone pressing my peculiar yuck buttons.

browneyedbazzi

lazer wrote: »

I completely agree - it is also completely natural to pee - but illegal to do it in public (as well as other "natural activities")

Urinating in public is quite different to breastfeeding - it leaves a puddle of not very nice liquid behind which can have an impact on others in the vicinity (smell, slip hazard and also probably involves exposing more than a bit of boob). Breastfeeding does no such thing.

I'd agree that a woman shouldn't be able to hand express milk into a puddle on the floor but cannot agree with your logic that equates urination to breastfeeding.

If you feel uncomfortable watching a woman breastfeed then LOOK AWAY! You chose where your eyes look and I think it's fairer for you to be expected to look away if you choose to feel uncomfortable with a natural and lawful act than to expect a mother to sit in a dark corner or a toilet or hide her baby under a shawl in order to flatter your overly delicate sensibilities.

molerat

AFiancee wrote: »

The cafe did not refuse to serve her or ask her to stop breastfeeding though did they?

Read the quote

Service providers must not discriminate, harass or victimise a woman because she is breastfeeding. Discrimination includes refusing to provide a service, providing a lower standard of service or providing a service on different terms.

loracan1

Nicki wrote: »

I personally find any form of facial piercing utterly repulsive, particularly nose and eyebrow, and it would completely put me off my lunch if I were sitting with someone who had this in my eyeline. But facial piercing is not illegal and it is someone else's personal choice to do that, so if I found myself in a cafe where I could not avoid seeing someone with them, then it would be up to me to leave and find somewhere else to have lunch or coffee where there wasn't someone pressing my peculiar yuck buttons.

I share that particular 'yuck button'. (I'm heaving here)

Nicki

lazer wrote: »

I completely agree - it is also completely natural to pee - but illegal to do it in public (as well as other "natural activities")

The cafe did not tell the woman to leave, they asked her to move the corner, probably as it was making her other customers uncomfortable.

While I support breastfeeding, I find that peole breastfeeding their babies anywhere and everywhere is a bit over the top. People go to restaurants and cafes for food, and it can be very off putting seeing someone bf at the next table. I see no reason, why the woman couldn't have simply moved into the corner.

The woman did move to the corner without a fuss, but as she was leaving a couple with a new baby came into the cafe and she told them what had happened. This lead to the cafe owner following her out of the cafe and screaming abuse at her and threatening her.

In a busy cafe, there isn't always a choice of tables when you enter, or a choice of free tables of the correct size if you are eating with other children or friends or family, so most women pick the most convenient table available whether with a baby or not. Not all tables in a cafe are accessible if you have a pushchair and those in the corner are probably the hardest to get to

clearingout

lazer wrote: »

While I support breastfeeding, I find that peole breastfeeding their babies anywhere and everywhere is a bit over the top. People go to restaurants and cafes for food, and it can be very off putting seeing someone bf at the next table. I see no reason, why the woman couldn't have simply moved into the corner.

I could be wrong, but I'll think you'll find that the baby was also in that cafe for food....