I read this, and I actually find it hard to believe that mothers
using bottles have total strangers coming up and *yelling* at them,
or making any univited comment at all.

I suppose - human behaviour being endlessly odd - it might happen
every so often, but I think the idea that this sort of public
criticism is a common phenomenon is based on an untruth.


Or do I live a sheltered life?


Of course no one should yell at, or comment to, or publicly criticise
a mother in this way - it's horribly cruel at worst, and dreadful bad
manners at best.

The idea that 'the lactation community' is to blame for these
isolated instances (if indeed they happen at all) is preposterous.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne UK

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