Breast Owner Vs. Pool Owner’s Quest
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Cinira Longuinho was breastfeeding her one year and 10 month-old daughter on the pool steps.
She was chatting with her friends and observed later that her daughter was acting grouchy or cranky. She chose to stay in the pool with her breast above water rather than breastfeeding onto the cool deck. However, the pool owner saw her breastfeeding in the water and asked her to leave. Ellie Karkouti, the pool owner gave her two options: comfortable chairs in the change room or the viewing gallery. But Longuinho was embarrassed that the owner wanted her to leave and pretended that nothing had happened. When she was in her car, she sensed that something was wrong, she knew that, based on the law she has a right to breastfeed even in public areas.
Group protests raised their voices, that breastfeeding should be “anytime, anywhere” and there’s no qualifications on where the mother breastfeed her child. Women according to Mrs. Longuinho, “women should not feel afraid to breast-feed in public. Breast-feeding is part of birth. It’s natural“. But, according to Mrs. Karkouti, “I’m pregnant and a fan of breast-feeding, just not in the pool” She has a fear that breastfeeding in the pool is not healthy for a child. The chlorination and the salt may reduce the growth of the bacteria in the pool but–however, the pee, saliva, sweat and body diseases from other people may harm the health of the child while breastfeeding.
To assert my opinion regarding this, both of them has rights–the rights of the mother to breastfeed anytime, anywhere as a breast-owner and a right of Mrs Karkouti as a pool-owner. Well, it was indeed uncool to be boot out in the pool while the baby is sucking her mother’s breast. But it is not so cool (really uncool) and a bit uncomfortable for me If I stick out my breast in front of the public.
Men are watching, ya know? And kids are talking—
5 Comments
Very interesting article. Good write.
Well, as a man I can tell you that a baby planted squarely over the business end of a breast is not exactly a visual rush so I wouldn’t worry about the men too much.
Breast feeding is natural and a woman should not have to go into a closet to feed a child. But on the other hand, natural or not, it is not all that “common” and a little “common” sense should be applied.
The pool owner could have protested privately and avoided the embarrassment factor. I don’t think a public pool is a particularly sanitary place to feed a baby (would you let the kids bottle float around in a pool? I don’t think so.
But thanks for a good article. It was thought proviking.
Grant
i agree w/grant…both have rights as u also said and maybe they should not have embarresed her but i probaly would have went to a chair w/ a towel draping the baby…makes sense right?
I don’t know about the breastfeeding in a pool. She should have gotten out and sat in a chair. I think the pool owner was out of hand with the situation. I breast fed both my child. They are adults now. I breast fed in public. I always covered myself with a cloth diaper. I saw a women on a bus at Disney World breast feeding her son. I never saw her breast. If a man is a gentleman, and there are a few still left, he will turn his head and not watch.
Very interesting, I enjoyed it
-Matt