Really?!
Katherine Guest was hoping to catch a bus last week to make a hospital appointment with her 10-week-old baby.
She decided to start breastfeeding her son at the bus stop before the vehicle arrived.
However, when it did, she was told by the bus driver that she would not be allowed on the bus.
“I expected to just walk straight onto the bus without any problems. I didn’t think twice about it when the doors opened and I stepped on.
But the driver turned around and said ‘I can’t let you on here’.”
Obviously shocked that she was being denied entry to the bus, Katherine asked the driver why.
He told her that there were “potentially health and safety risks” associated with breastfeeding and that her baby could “choke on (her) milk.”
Speaking to The Mirror, Katherine said that she was “stunned” by the encounter.
“You see mums breastfeeding on public transport all of the time. I don’t know why it should be any different for me, really.”
The new mum was then forced to run to the hospital to make her appointment, which she said was “…probably more dangerous for a new-born than riding a bus. It’s baffling.”
