Banned for breastfeeding in a public pool

I was really shocked, because in the eight years that I’ve been breastfeeding for, it was the first time that anyone has ever said anything

Two breastfeeding mothers were asked to leave their local pool in Stoke-on-Trent after staff told them it ‘breached the food and drink policy’.

According to the Equality Act of 2010, a business cannot discriminate against mothers who are breastfeeding a child at any age.

Natalie Forester and Chloe Hattersley join us from Stoke as they explain why the centre’s treatment is outdated and left them feeling shocked and embarrassed.

If I’m sitting in a cafe or a swimming pool I don’t want people to start engaging in bodily functions that have usually been kept private.

But Virginia Blackburn - who agrees with the leisure centre - is fed up with breastfeeding mums who take liberty and think it’s their god given right to breastfeed their children wherever they want.