Anonymous
Post 12/09/2023 00:57     Subject: Breastfeeding during parent & me swimming class
Very inappropriate!
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2023 21:04     Subject: Breastfeeding during parent & me swimming class
Anonymous wrote:
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.


Good way to drown a child. I wouldn't feed a kid pizza in a pool, much less juice or breastmilk.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2023 21:03     Subject: Breastfeeding during parent & me swimming class
Some people are attention-seeking. This person is one of them. Lots of better ways to handle it and that wasn't one of them. At over 6 months that kid can wait for 10 min until the class is over, obviously.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2023 20:59     Subject: Re:Breastfeeding during parent & me swimming class
I’m all about breastfeeding wherever, whenever, and without shame, but if you wouldn’t feed your baby a bottle in the pool, you shouldn’t breastfeed in a pool, either. My kids always burped up a bit of milk and stomach fluids after meals. It’s gross to have that in a pool, just like it’s gross to have barfed up chocolate milk or Goldfish in a pool. Get out, feed the kids, and get back in when their stomachs are settled.
1SWMom
Post 12/06/2023 07:29     Subject: Breastfeeding during parent & me swimming class
My daughter used to help herself during swim class when she was 8 months -2 years old. I’d make my way to the side.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2023 22:18     Subject: Breastfeeding during parent & me swimming class
Anonymous wrote:
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.


Are you the OP? Because before you were saying the problem was that people saw it.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2023 19:08     Subject: Breastfeeding during parent & me swimming class
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.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2023 15:48     Subject: Breastfeeding during parent & me swimming class
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.


Is this for real?
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2023 15:38     Subject: Breastfeeding during parent & me swimming class
Anonymous wrote:Is this the same troll who keeps posting weird questions?

Yes.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2023 14:35     Subject: Breastfeeding during parent & me swimming class
Anonymous wrote:How was she "making a scene?" Was she yelling? Demanding that people look?

I don't get the problem.



+1 Who cares. Mom feeding her baby is a good thing.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2023 14:33     Subject: Breastfeeding during parent & me swimming class
Has there ever been even one instance of HIV transmission in a pool?

Why are we talking about it then?
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2023 14:20     Subject: Re:Breastfeeding during parent & me swimming class
Anonymous wrote:
Open wounds are not allowed.


I feel like as a preschool teacher there are probably kids with scrapes or heavily scratched mosquito bites going in there in practice but maybe I’m wrong. I’m not advocating for it. But I doubt there are cases of HIV transmission linked to it. If there’s evidence to ban lactating women so be it. I’m just saying that latching isn’t strictly necessary for the breast milk to enter the pool water. In some cases it might minimize it.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2023 14:11     Subject: Breastfeeding during parent & me swimming class
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.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2023 14:10     Subject: Re:Breastfeeding during parent & me swimming class
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.


Open wounds are not allowed.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2023 14:02     Subject: Re:Breastfeeding during parent & me swimming class
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.