A cafe owner shamed a breastfeeding mum. Again.
So, let me get this straight. A famous woman can get her naked butt on every computer screen in the world and we’re cool with it. But a new mum can’t breastfeed her child in a cafe, discreetly moving aside her top for her kid to suckle?
What is this?
An English cafe called Tillings has told breastfeeding mothers to take their babies and their breasts into the disabled bathrooms, rather than feed in public. Because the sight of mother nourishing her baby is that offensive.
But hey, they say you can have a chair! ONE. CHAIR.
Having only one chair, I assume it's a strange game of musical chairs and the one with the loudest child wins the space to feed their child. Either that, or wait in the cafe with a screeching child, desperate for food, for the lone chair to become available.
Either way, if you go to this cafe, this is the one place you can feed your beautiful child...
Cue the National Childbirth Trust (only the largest parenting charity in the UK) contacting the cafe to rightly request that the sign be removed:
"Asking customers to breastfeed in the toilet is a breach of human rights. It's laughable that they seem to suggest groups of mother's take it in turns to use the chair in the loo" - Sophie Stone, local mother
Since the internet made the managers accountable aware of the offence that the sign has caused, a formal apology has been issued with owner June Radford stating that she "can only apologise for any miscommunication" and notes that "we have had many happy breastfeeding mums in our cafe in the three years we have been open and we continue to support breastfeeding. We have never and would never ask anyone to stop breastfeeding in the cafe, nor leave the cafe".
