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BF in IKEA - customer complained!
I find it strange that they had a problem. The Ikea here is very BF friendly. I have BF many times in the cafiteria, the BF room (DD got to a point when she got very distracted, so it was nice), and I have even seen people walking around while BF (never able to do that) Sorry about your friend's experience. -- Michelle P Ava Marie July 14, 2002 "Anne Rogers" wrote in message ... This is second hand as it happened to a freind of mine last week who's baby started to cry so she sat down in one of the IKEA rooms and very discreetly fed him. She noticd a man come over to look at the display and he seemed a bit showcked at her, she then watched him go over to teh IKEA staff, who then went to an older IKEA staff emmenr. NExt thing a manager comes over to ask if she new that tehre was a feeding room and that a customer had complained about her. She said the complainant was male, mid 30's. Teh feeding room was on teh other floor and teh baby was hungry then. Yikes, though tbh, I don't think I would feed in the displays, it's very rare that a baby suddenly needs feeding with absolutely no warning. I'd go to the cafe, but never to a feeding room, after all, no one makes me eat in a room all alone. |
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BF in IKEA - customer complained!
Tatjana Pantic wrote
Similar thing happened to me 2 months ago at our local IKEA. Cafeteria was full, feeding room on that floor only has one chair and it was occupied by a FF mother, so what was I supposed to do? While I was bfeeding DS, a man approached and asked my friend (I was tucked in a corner behind her) why am I bfeeding there, don't I know there is a feeding room? So now feeding rooms are going to be used as a way to prohibit us from nursing elsewhere in a store? My friend told him the room was full and than his wife (the complaining customer's wife) lead him away before I coud say my piece :-) He did not go to the manager, AFAIK. He was also in his 30's and from India. While it's great that IKEA provides baby rooms, that is clearly not enough, at least at the two stores I've been to (here in Northern California) - there are only two rooms (one on each floor) and they only have one or two chairs . IKEA has sooooooo many customers, and most of them with children, that it shouldn't come as a surprise that babies are beeing fed all over the place. This kind of thing burns me up, and I'm not exactly a "lactivist". But we can breastfeed any-the-hell-where we want. It's just feeding a baby, for heaven's sake! If you're so upset by the sight of a woman's breasts, stop looking already! |
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BF in IKEA - customer complained!
So now feeding rooms are going to be used as a way to prohibit us from
nursing elsewhere in a store? Geez....relax. Take a deep breath. No, *some* women appreciate a feeding room. They like the privacy. They like having a quiet place where they can nurse their highly distracted nursling who likes to pull off at every sight and sound. This kind of thing burns me up, and I'm not exactly a "lactivist". But we can breastfeed any-the-hell-where we want. It's just feeding a baby, for heaven's sake! If you're so upset by the sight of a woman's breasts, stop looking already! Take another deep breath. Perhaps this isn't about *your* right to breastfeed "any-the-hell-where-you-want" but for the comfort of mother, nursling and other individuals who frequent the store. And yes, you are a lactivist :-) Shannon |
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BF in IKEA - customer complained!
teapot wrote:
This is second hand as it happened to a freind of mine last week who's baby started to cry so she sat down in one of the IKEA rooms and very discreetly fed him. Which one was it? I'll be sure next time I'm in it to nurse :-). (I'm hoping Glasgow, since I can get the stuff I buy there shipped here..) -- 'Tis Herself |
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BF in IKEA - customer complained!
"Shannon G" wrote in message news:hoEqb.6859$iE.6149@okepread01... So now feeding rooms are going to be used as a way to prohibit us from nursing elsewhere in a store? Geez....relax. Take a deep breath. No, *some* women appreciate a feeding room. They like the privacy. They like having a quiet place where they can nurse their highly distracted nursling who likes to pull off at every sight and sound. I'll nurse wherever I need to, but I do like to use a nursing room. I have a 2 1/2 year old and a 13 month old and I like to have a secure place for ds to run around while I nurse dd. Of course there are times when dd nurses and ds decided to get in on the action, too I don't think I'll ever be ready to tandem nip!! It's quite a sight LOL my shirt is up around my neck and everything hangs out. And, of course, there are times when they start arguing over which side they have and they have a fight still latched on!! Like I said, it's a sight! Jennifer mom to Ernie, 2 1/2 and Katie, 13 months |
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BF in IKEA - customer complained!
"Mary Ann Tuli" wrote in message
... Tatjana Pantic wrote: My friend told him the room was full and than his wife (the complaining customer's wife) lead him away before I coud say my piece :-) He did not go to the manager, AFAIK. He was also in his 30's and from India. How do you know he was from India and why is that significant? Mary Ann Well I'm not the OP but I think it is significant because of cultural influences. However I would have been less surprised to hear that the gentleman was white and of British or American origin. Nikki |
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BF in IKEA - customer complained!
Tatjana Pantic wrote:
My friend told him the room was full and than his wife (the complaining customer's wife) lead him away before I coud say my piece :-) He did not go to the manager, AFAIK. He was also in his 30's and from India. Mary Ann Tuli replied: How do you know he was from India and why is that significant? That's funny, I was wondering how she could be so sure of his age. I expect she thought nationality was relevant for context, just for adding a little information. As for guessing nationality, Indian is one of the easier ones for me. The skin tone range, facial features and accent combo are a good giveaway. I suppose there's always the danger (for me anyway) that I'm mistaking a Bangladeshi, Pakistani or Nepalese national for an Indian one, but the Indian subcontinent has fairly distinctive looking/sounding folks, in my experience. My experience, but the way, mostly derives from going to college with a lot of Indian nationals and then working in the computer industry in Boston with a lot more. Now, introduce me to a European national, and I'll probably guess the wrong country. -- -- Vicki Married DH May 21, 1995 Ima shel DS, born 11/16/99; and DD, born 5/19/02. "Stay-at-home" Ima since October 2002. An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. -Spanish proverb I may not currently be pregnant, but I look pregnant, does that count? |
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BF in IKEA - customer complained!
"Shannon G" wrote in message news:hoEqb.6859$iE.6149@okepread01...
So now feeding rooms are going to be used as a way to prohibit us from nursing elsewhere in a store? Geez....relax. Take a deep breath. Huh? I'm perfectly relaxed. No, *some* women appreciate a feeding room. They like the privacy. They like having a quiet place where they can nurse their highly distracted nursling who likes to pull off at every sight and sound. Why do you mention this pretty obvious fact here? Certainly you don't think I'm implying that there should not be feeding rooms? No, what I was saying, in light of the story told in which a man implied that a woman should not feed her baby in public because there was a feeding room set aside for that purpose, was that the exitence of feeding rooms is clearly going to make some people think that now there's no "excuse" to feed elsewhere in a store. This is not a reflection on the existence of the feeding rooms, of course, but on the general attitude, which is that BIF is objectionable and you need an "excuse" to do it, such as that there isn't anyplace else. This kind of thing burns me up, and I'm not exactly a "lactivist". But we can breastfeed any-the-hell-where we want. It's just feeding a baby, for heaven's sake! If you're so upset by the sight of a woman's breasts, stop looking already! Take another deep breath. Why do you keep saying this? I have no breathing problems, thank god. But I do appreciate your concern. Perhaps this isn't about *your* right to breastfeed "any-the-hell-where-you-want" but for the comfort of mother, nursling and other individuals who frequent the store. And yes, you are a lactivist :-) It is about both one's right to BF anywhere and about one's comfort level BFing anywhere. That is, many women are a lot less comfortable BFing in public because of experiences and stories like this. The comfort of "other individuals" is irrelevant in this case. I don't doubt that there are some individuals who are uncomfortable with all kinds of things others do in stores, such as women wearing short shorts or overweight people eating junkfood, but that's their problem, isn't it? A woman can and should feel free to BF anywhere, and people who are uncomfortable with it really must learn to keep their opinions to themselves. It is absolutely none of their business. Do you disagree with that statement? |
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"Vicki S" wrote in message ... Tatjana Pantic wrote: My friend told him the room was full and than his wife (the complaining customer's wife) lead him away before I coud say my piece :-) He did not go to the manager, AFAIK. He was also in his 30's and from India. Mary Ann Tuli replied: How do you know he was from India and why is that significant? That's funny, I was wondering how she could be so sure of his age. I expect she thought nationality was relevant for context, just for adding a little information. As for guessing nationality, Indian is one of the easier ones for me. The skin tone range, facial features and accent combo are a good giveaway. I suppose there's always the danger (for me anyway) that I'm mistaking a Bangladeshi, Pakistani or Nepalese national for an Indian one, but the Indian subcontinent has fairly distinctive looking/sounding folks, in my experience. I don't see how his nationality was relevant for context or gives much info other than you must have some preconcieved notion about Indians and NIP. |
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BF in IKEA - customer complained!
toypup wrote:
I don't see how his nationality was relevant for context or gives much info other than you must have some preconcieved notion about Indians and NIP. Before we start reading racist overtones into this, please bear in mind that different cultures DO have different views on BF and NIP. If you were NIP and you saw a middle-aged, middle-class white American woman looking at you, what would you assume she was thinking? That she thought it was great, or that she was from the FF generation and thought that what you were doing was repulsive, or should at least be hidden away? -- iphigenia www.tristyn.net "i have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. i do not think that they will sing to me." |
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