Swimming Pool stops Mom Breastfeeding

A poolside ban on food and drink meant a mother was told to stop breastfeeding her 11-week old baby.

Laura Whotton, 26, was outraged when a staff member said she could not feed her baby boy Joshua by the pool at John Carroll Leisure Centre, in Nottingham, UK.

Nottingham City Council insisted there had been “a misunderstanding” and has promised to apologise to Ms Whotton.

It is also issuing new guidelines to its leisure centre staff.

A council spokeswoman said: “The rules are that there’s definitely no food and drink poolside, but breastfeeding is exempt from that rule. People can breastfeed anywhere.”

Ms Whotton told the Nottingham Evening Post: “When it happened, it made me feel angry.

“It could put people off going swimming and has made me not want to go to the John Carroll Leisure Centre again. But an apology would be fine.”

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