Today we speak again of an incident that shows how in our society there are still signs of "offense" and rejection of a natural fact that is to feed a baby. The incident happened in a public pool in Nottingham (United Kingdom), when She told a mother who was breastfeeding her baby that she violated the rules of not drinking or eating in the pool area.
To me it sounds more like rejection to the chest in the air, something that in a society like Anglo-Saxon (and in many other places) still costs to assume in a mixture of puritanism and hypocrisy that I find difficult to assume. And that is hard to imagine the chest in the air while the baby sucks ...
It happened at the John Carroll Leisure Center when Laura Whotton began feeding her three-month-old baby, after having bathed together, because the baby was hungry and began to cry.
They sat on a bench and the lifeguards, accompanied by a swimmer, let them out.
A spokesman for the local authority has said that the council's policy is to empower mothers to breastfeed in all centers, including leisure centers. The only exception to this rule is in the pool and the surrounding area, where, for the sake of safety and hygiene, there is a policy of not eating or drinking.
Of course, if you are breastfeeding the entire area of the crap pool is filled ... Fortunately, although late as always, the council has given a full and open apology to the mother has reviewed and modified its breastfeeding policy.
In the United Kingdom, it is expected that amendments to the Equality Law will be approved by Parliament next year so that breastfeeding can obtain more legal protection. Incredible but true, in these times ... But as we said, unfortunately, eating is still compared to shit ...
