YMCA Bans Breast Feeding @ the Pool

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Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: slag

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: NFS4
Can't you bottle breast milk? Why not just pump before you leave, bottle it up and throw it in a insulated bag with an icepack (I don't know how long that stuff keeps).

I don't think my mom wipped out her breasts in public for me when I was a kid. I always had a bottle.

were you breastfed at all? will your wife breastfeed your children?

Yes, and Yes, my wife has breastfed our children. She used the pump because its rude and crude to whip out your breast in public. Its also indecent.

What was your point going to be?

where do you get the idea that women "whip out" breasts when they breastfeed? 😕

i can see the vid now: "BREASTFEEDING WOMEN GONE WILD"

hahaha

 

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Originally posted by: Steelski

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: HBalzer

Originally posted by: Phoenix86

Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
But I see no problem with prohibiting it in certain areas like a swimming pool. Thei drip a bit and their breast milk gets into the water and it could just be an unhealthy situation.

Winnar!!!

It's for health concerns, the same reason you can't eat/drink at the pool.

Folks, public pools are NOT the cleanist environment. Why would this be any different for babies feeding?

Add to it the fact there is a place provided and this is really a non-issue.

So your argument is that a drop of breast milk might contaminate the YMCA chlorine/piss pool? And the fact that they have a room for it doesn?t make it a non-point say the mother has other kids swimming after all I doubt she just goes to the pool to breastfeed. I doubt she wants leave the swimming child in the care of some teenage lifeguard that gets distracted at the drop of a bra. So she would have to take the kid out of the pool dry them off and do what with them in the semi private room full of breast feeding mothers.

great point, and meanwhile her hungry child is screaming. NOW there will be complaints about a crying-wild hungry baby disturbing people at the pool. 😕

bottle

not as healthy as the breast... even when it's milk FROM the breast. helps with bonding and the secretion of prolactin from the anterior pituitary.

 

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Wow, where to start.

First, breast is best. Mothers? milk is easier to digest and is tolerated by most babies better than formula. Pumping and using a bottle half the time is a bad idea. Bottles flow easier and that can lead to nipple confusion where the baby gets lazy and does not want to work for the milk from the breast.

Second, timely suckling is necessary to ensure that the mother?s milk supply does not dry up and promotes mother/child bonding.

Third, the average nursing mom shows much less boobie than a Baywatch bimbo.

According to the public: Good boobies at the pool, Bad boobies at the pool

Our family was eating out this weekend for a kids birthday and the family behind us had a little baby. The d!ckhead my sister-in-law is dating complained later about that mother breastfeeding at her table instead of going to the bathroom. I had not noticed but commented that the Asian lady in the background looked perturbed when I took a picture of the birthday boy at our table. After reviewing the pic I see in the far corner of the frame that she was very discreetly breastfeeding. No boob showing so WTF is the problem.

The diaper argument is also bunk. Babies are changed in the bathroom because that is where poopies go. Unless you enjoy having your lunch in a bathroom stall or locker room bench, don?t ask a baby to. Gosh!