Public Establishments Banning Babies and Young Children - Thoughts?

Sounds great to me, while I was breastfeeding I would have loved to go off to a private place with a rocking chair and dimmed lights, not refused and wanted to do it uncomfortably at a dining table, where people would stare, plus no need to cover up in a nursing room. You have every right to enforce with rule and I think you are respecting not only your customers who don't want to watch someone breastfeed, but you are respecting the mother so she has a quite private place to connect and feed her child in peace.

Check your local laws. In the US, breastfeeding is allowed anywhere that a mother is allowed to be, and the public toilet is not considered a suitable place to feed a baby (and I suspect no one else would want to eat there either). In addition, some mothers might have other children that need care *while* she is nursing, and a public toilet is not a suitable place for them, either.

Frankly-and this is just my opinion-it sounds like you have a bit of a hang up about breastfeeding in public. In my opinion, it is appropriate to breastfeed wherever it is appropriate to bottle feed, and I would not frequent your "family friendly" restaurant. And in the US, the law agrees with me.

EDIT: So, if my child wants to nurse, I have to leave my food, take the other children from their food, and go into a separate room? That sounds family unfriendly to me. And you are NOT a breastfeeding friendly establishment if you do this.

What will you do if a woman chooses not to leave the table? Forcibly evict her? Call the police?

Breastfeeding friendly establishments allow breastfeeding in the way the mother chooses to carry it out. By asking women to remove themselves, you are perpetuating the myth that breastfeeding is dirty and shameful and should be kept out of the public view. You are choosing to encourage the culture of the town (as you see it), rather than change it for the better.

But, as I said-check the local laws, What you are planning may be illegal, and is for sure discriminatory. Unless you ask *every* mother feeding her baby to use your special (isolated) rooms..

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