Breast feeding

[irene.tommy]

What is your opinion on women that breast feed their babies in public?  Is it right or should it be done discreedly?

[bankhaunter]

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@tommy.irene wrote:

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@tommy.irene wrote:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/humiliated-young-mum-ordered-out-4798117?ICID=FB_mirror_main Humiliated young mum ordered out of hospital waiting room by nurses for breastfeeding newborn

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.......Good for the nurses they did the right thing..

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What by illegal discrimination?

It's one thing to offer a private room to use but quite another to insist the mother use the corridor.

(1)A person (A) discriminates against another (B) if, because of a protected characteristic, A treats B less favourably than A treats or would treat others.

(6)If the protected characteristic is sex—

(a)less favourable treatment of a woman includes less favourable treatment of her because she is breast-feeding;

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/section/13

[tommy.irene]

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@bankhaunter wrote:

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@tommy.irene wrote:

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@tommy.irene wrote:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/humiliated-young-mum-ordered-out-4798117?ICID=FB_mirror_main Humiliated young mum ordered out of hospital waiting room by nurses for breastfeeding newborn

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.......Good for the nurses they did the right thing..

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What by illegal discrimination?

It's one thing to offer a private room to use but quite another to insist the mother use the corridor.

(1)A person (A) discriminates against another (B) if, because of a protected characteristic, A treats B less favourably than A treats or would treat others.

(6)If the protected characteristic is sex—

(a)less favourable treatment of a woman includes less favourable treatment of her because she is breast-feeding;

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/section/13

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Abbie Stocker described feeling "humiliated" when told to leave a hospital waiting room and wait in an empty corridor to finish feeding 10-week-old Eric. The 25-year-old was attending an appointment and was sitting in the waiting room of Burnley Hospital in Lancashire when a nurse asked if she would like to move to a private room......Banks..No one asked her to use the corridor

[tommy.irene]

Anita Fleming, Head of Midwifery at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, said: We are a baby friendly organisation. "It's disappointing to hear that our offer of a room to allow Miss Stocker privacy and comfort was misinterpreted on this occasion and we are sorry for any upset that may have been caused. "As a Trust we will continue to be supportive of visitors to any of our sites and strive to meet their individual needs."

[bankhaunter]

Misinterpreted by whom?

But Mrs Stocker stood her ground and refused to leave - only to be asked to leave a second time, this time by another nurse after seeing a consultant about the tot's possible genetic eye condition.

[tommy.irene]

If it was my Irene that was doing the feeding ..i would make sure it wasnt in a hospital waiting room with all the germs around..the offer of a room sounds good to me..