Louise (Admin)
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Breastfeeding 'broke no food rule'A mother has been told to stop breastfeeding her baby boy by a swimming pool as it breached a leisure centre's strict poolside ban on food and drink.
Laura Whotton was left fuming when a member of staff said she could not feed 11-week-old Joshua by the pool at John Carroll Leisure Centre, in Nottingham.
The 26-year-old, from Carrington, in the city, was feeding her hungry baby there so she could keep an eye on her son Thomas, four.
Nottingham City Council insisted there had been "a misunderstanding" and has promised to apologise to Ms Whotton.
It is also issuing new guidelines to its leisure centre staff.
A council spokeswoman said: "The rules are that there's definitely no food and drink poolside, but breastfeeding is exempt from that rule. People can breastfeed anywhere."
Ms Whotton told the Nottingham Evening Post: "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."
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Saftlad
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Totally bloody stupid rule that stops a mother doing the most natural thing in the world 
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Lady Rachel
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Firstly it was probably some young lifeguard 
Iused to get the occasional funny look when I was breastfeeding & I always made sure nothing could be seen.
Never heard anything so ridiculous in my life
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Dolly Dimple
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I read this yesterday and was OMG with shock and then laughed at what was such a stupid mistake 
I bet whoever told her to stop breast feeding must of felt like a right divvy
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