Changing minds and winning hearts – breastfeeding campaigning

Today, P&O changed wording on their website regarding breastfeeding in public areas of their cruise ships. Why? Because a number of people who cared about what P&O had written initially contacted them to tell them they had got it Very Wrong and ask them to reconsider.

Public infant feeding lunacy isn’t restricted to breastfeeding after all

Samantha Corbridge was kicked out of a Sheffield Job Centre for feeding her baby.  Same old, same old, you might think, already feeling the familiar prickle of righteous indignation that a woman breastfeeding her baby was discriminated against. But not this time.  This is the first time I’ve heard of it (although I’m sure it’s [...]

Breastfeeding in public – the law

There has been some debate about the seemingly misguided legislation that will give women the right to breastfeed their babies free from harassment – well, until those babies are six months old.  It would then, surely, be open season on those mothers who breastfeed their babies beyond this age.  However, Sandra Jane Tanner, PR and [...]

Breastfeeding in public – what was your experience?

I’ve just seen this story in the Daily Mail from earlier in the week.  According to this article: “New mothers dread breastfeeding their babies in public because of stares and criticism – and one in eight have actually been asked to stop, a report out today reveals. Fully 38 per cent, almost two out of [...]