Marks & Spencer cafe: breast-feeding mother asked to leave & feed baby in toilets:OK?

Pollycat

Bantex wrote: »

Sorry, but I really do not wish to share the sight and sound of body fluids being exchanged when I go to a public place to eat.

No, you're not 'sorry'. :cool:

I would find it far more acceptable to have a Mum breastfeeding her baby next to me than a couple playing tonsil hockey and exchanging bodily fluids.

janiebquick

It looks to me as though whoever from M&S responded diidn't actually know any of the facts at all and gave a 'stock response'. It would have been better just to apologise and say they were investigating.

Bantex_2

Pollycat wrote: »

No, you're not 'sorry'. :cool:

I would find it far more acceptable to have a Mum breastfeeding her baby next to me than a couple playing tonsil hockey and exchanging bodily fluids.

I would rather not have to see, hear, smell any of them whilst having my lunch.

OlliesDad

Bantex wrote: »

Sorry, but I really do not wish to share the sight and sound of body fluids being exchanged when I go to a public place to eat.

I highly doubt that if the mother had expressed the milk into a bottle you would find it offensive to see.. so don't pretend that its because it's a bodily fluid that's the issue.

peachyprice

Bantex wrote: »

I would rather not have to see, hear, smell any of them whilst having my lunch.

If you can hear and smell a baby best feeding you're sitting far too close, the mother doesn't need you and her baby on her lap. As for seeing, just turn your chair a little, problem solved.

I bet you're the kind of person that finds severely disabled children offensive too and wouldn't want to eat near one.

Pollycat

Bantex wrote: »

I would rather not have to see, hear, smell any of them whilst having my lunch.

Oh - to live in your perfect world. :rotfl:

Doesn't it get lonely?

OlliesDad

Bantex wrote: »

I would rather not have to see, hear, smell any of them whilst having my lunch.

That is one of the strangest comments I have seen on MSE.. you sit close enough to mothers feeding their children that you can actually smell them? I think you have issues understanding personal space.

Doc_N

OlliesDad wrote: »

That is one of the strangest comments I have seen on MSE.. you sit close enough to mothers feeding their children that you can actually smell them? I think you have issues understanding personal space.

He's just trolling, hoping for comments to feed on. Best ignore him.

giantmutantbroccoli

I hate the sounds other people make when they're eating. Really, really hate them, it's like it goes right through my skull - a bit like nails on a chalkboard in fact!
But that's why I tend to only eat out in places that have well-spaced tables, or when it's fairly empty. Or I put up with it. Because, you know, that's what being in public is all about - putting up with the things you don't like, politely, in full knowledge that all the other people around you are also putting up with you.
I think it's pretty poor of M&S to ask a woman to feed her baby in the toilets. They wouldn't ask someone with noisy, messy toddlers to do the same would they? And to some people (hello!) the sight/sound of a toddler covered in orange tomato sauce with pasta in their hair is way more disturbing and gross than breastfeeding could ever be

Bantex_2

giantmutantbroccoli wrote: »

I hate the sounds other people make when they're eating. Really, really hate them, it's like it goes right through my skull - a bit like nails on a chalkboard in fact!
But that's why I tend to only eat out in places that have well-spaced tables, or when it's fairly empty. Or I put up with it. Because, you know, that's what being in public is all about - putting up with the things you don't like, politely, in full knowledge that all the other people around you are also putting up with you.
I think it's pretty poor of M&S to ask a woman to feed her baby in the toilets. They wouldn't ask someone with noisy, messy toddlers to do the same would they? And to some people (hello!) the sight/sound of a toddler covered in orange tomato sauce with pasta in their hair is way more disturbing and gross than breastfeeding could ever be

When I ran a restaurant many years ago, we would ask people to leave if they had noisy, messy children with them. Some places are happy with that type of clientelle, others are not