Restaurant Gives Breastfeeding Moms a Much-Needed Rest (and Free Tea, Too)
By Megan Friedman, REDBOOK.
We've seen some good--and some not-so-good--responses to the public breastfeeding debate. A local French cafe in Cheltenham, England falls in the thumbs-up camp.
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Brasserie Blanc posted a sign encouraging breastfeeding moms to "pop in and have a free cup of tea if you need a pit stop." An admiring customer uploaded a photo of the sign to RefreshMe, a Facebook page about parenting and breastfeeding, and the post quickly gained thousands of likes.
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Emma O'Connor, the restaurant's general manager, came up with the idea after she helped an exhausted mom. "I made her a cup of tea and she looked like I'd given her a million pounds," she told The Independent.
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O'Connor also clarified the policy applies to bottlefeeding moms as well, and even moms who simply need a break. "We think a little bit of love is a simple thing, the restaurant wrote on Facebook.
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