It is Claridge’s policy that breastfeeding mothers cover up when feeding

[barryqwalsh]

It may shock us metropolitan types to discover that Ukippers see the world differently to us
Nigel Farage has suggested that a leading London hotel could have asked a woman breastfeeding to sit in the corner. On a radio phone-in today he was asked about a recent case in which staff asked one of their guests (taking tea and feeding her baby) to deploy a napkin in case any other residents were offended by the sight.

There is much outrage about Farage's comments. On Twitter various people are asking whether this is the moment that he has "jumped the shark."


Nigel Farage s breastfeeding comments will do Ukip little harm - Telegraph

 

[Roadrunner]

My kids were breast fed.

Any woman who cannot discreetly and unoffensively breast feed a baby in public is an attention whore.

 

[barryqwalsh]

Look at her!

She is enjoying the attention, a bored yummy mummy perhaps?


Mother forced to cover up with large napkin while breastfeeding at Claridge s - Telegraph

 

[Roadrunner]

Look at her!

She is enjoying the attention, a bored yummy mummy perhaps?


Mother forced to cover up with large napkin while breastfeeding at Claridge s - Telegraph

There was nothing to see in either picture.

My wife nursed my kids in restaurants and nobody ever said a thing.

 

[barryqwalsh]

Because, the pictures were taken after she covered up!!!

 

[waltky]

For some strange reason - Uncle Ferd keeps sayin', "Nummy, nummy, nummy...

UNICEF: Mother’s Milk Best For Newborn Babies
August 01, 2016 — The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warns that 77 million babies deprived of mother’s milk within the first crucial hours after birth are at great risk of dying within a month. To mark World Breastfeeding Week (August 1 to 7), UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) are calling for newborns to be breastfed exclusively for six months.

UNICEF says newborns should be breastfed within the first hour of life. This provides them with the essential nutrients, antibodies and skin-to-skin contact with their mother that protects them from disease and death. UNICEF reports the longer breastfeeding is delayed, the higher the risk of death in the first month of life. It warns delaying breastfeeding by 24 or more hours after birth increases that risk to 80 percent. On the other hand, it notes more than 800,000 lives would be saved if all babies were fed nothing but mother’s milk from the moment they were born until six months of age.

Unfortunately, the World Health Organization says this message is slow in getting through. WHO spokeswoman, Fadela Chaib, said new mothers are not receiving the support and encouragement they need to breast feed their babies. “The slogan this year is breastfeed anywhere, any time because it is also, as I said, the role of society to make this possible for mothers who want to breast feed. This being said, yes, it is an old problem. We have always been advocating for more breastfeeding because we are convinced of the benefit of breastfeeding. It is really the ideal food for infants,” said Chaib. For example, she said, breastfeeding protects children against many common illnesses. Breastfed children perform better on intelligence tests, are less likely to be overweight or obese and less prone to diabetes later in life.

Chaib told VOA that inappropriate marketing of infant formula continues to undermine efforts to get women to breastfeed their babies. “We are not against them producing this kind of milk. What we are against is the fact that they promote it as if it is the same value that the milk of the mother. It is a lie. It is not the same,” said Chaib. Progress in getting more newborns breastfed within the first hour of life has been slow over the past 15 years. Surveys show in sub-Saharan Africa, where under-five mortality rates are the highest in the world, early breastfeeding rates have remained unchanged.

UNICEF: Mother’s Milk Best For Newborn Babies