Anonymous wrote:The breast milk can end up in the pool if a lactating woman is in there anyway even if the baby doesn’t latch. But I doubt there is any documented case of HIV transmission from sharing a chlorinated pool with a lactating woman. Of course health care workers can and will still follow best practices when dealing with it especially when not enveloped in chlorinated water. Fears of indoor chlorine exposure are probably more logical for everyone involved in this particular scenario.

That said I don’t really care if they ban breastfeeding in the pool but if you’re going by some of the logic here you need to ban all lactating women, children who have a scrape, etc.

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Open wounds are not allowed.

Anonymous wrote:How was she "making a scene?" Was she yelling? Demanding that people look?

I don't get the problem.

Anonymous wrote:Is this the same troll who keeps posting weird questions?

Anonymous wrote:I saw a mom standing in the public pool and suddenly breastfeeding her baby (older than 6 months but younger than 1 yr) for a few minutes during parent and me swimming class. The thing is that there were a few kid swimming classes going on at the same public pool at the same time, and many parents sitting across the shallow pool saw what happened. The mom was in bathing suit, and she stood up taking her boob out of her bathing suit making quite a scene that I couldn't help noticing it. I felt a bit embrassing that she did that in the public pool (unhygiene fir baby and others), during the class time, and a bit worried about chlorine toxic for milk.

Is it out of norm that it happen? I immediately looked away when I saw that.

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't have thought anything of it if it were someone in a pool chair, but maybe being IN the pool is a bit odd. Not the worst thing I guess though.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh my god who cares. How does this affect you?

You’re missing the point. It’s not about seeing the breast or breast-feeding. It’s about the potential of diseases, being transmitted. Why do you think healthcare workers and anybody who works with breastmilk wear gloves when handling it?

Secondary it is about the contamination of the pool. It’s not ok for someone to drink a box of milk either.

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't have thought anything of it if it were someone in a pool chair, but maybe being IN the pool is a bit odd. Not the worst thing I guess though.

+1 I don’t think it’s unhygienic or gross or inappropriate I just can’t imagine wanting to nurse an older child standing, especially somewhere slippery like a pool. That seems unusual. Or they were sitting on the deck that seems totally normal.