[Margaret Pilkington]

I am all for women performing this natural function...but I feel the swimming pool is not the place, and for no other reason than it is unsafe.
If I read the article correctly the woman had taken the 17 month old to learn to swim , but was handed her other 4 month old child to feed, this, whilst still in the pool.why couldn't she have got out and gone somewhere safer(like a pool side seat) to perform this function...or better still...what is wrong with expressed breast milk for such an occasion...it is still breast milk and has all the benefits of the fresh stuff, but is more convenient at times like this.

I fed my daughter until she was 10 months old, but would not have dreamed of doing it in a public place..mind you, the world was a different place back in the iron age!