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Mother Banned From Breast Feeding 11-Week-Old
A mother in Nottingham was left in shock after staff of a leisure centre told her she could not breast feed her 11-week-old son by the swimming pool.
Laura Whotton, 26, from Carrington had been feeding her baby Joshua at the pool so she could safely watch her 4-year-old son Thomas.
She was approached by a member of staff from the John Carroll Leisure Centre, and told to stop breast feeding as she was breaching the pool’s strict ban of food and drink.
Whotton told her local paper: “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.”
Nottingham City Council has said that they will apologize to Ms Whotton, and that it has been, “a misunderstanding”. New guidelines will also be issued to members of staff.
“The rules are that there’s definitely no food and drink poolside, but breastfeeding is exempt from that rule. People can breastfeed anywhere.” said a spokesman for Nottingham Council.
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