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12:54pm Thursday 10th July 2008
AN IMAGINATIVE student has created a new chair designed to solve the problems associated with breast-feeding in public.
Design student Nicola Hart came up with the idea for her discreet chair after watching a TV programme about the problems faced by breast-feeding mothers.
The 22-year-old explained: "Although breastfeeding is encouraged by medical professionals, many women decide against it for a variety of reasons.
"One of the deciding factors is they believe they can't breast-feed in public places, often due to poor facilities, lack of confidence and other people's negative reactions."
Miss Hart of Charmwood Lane, Orpington, is displaying her luminous pink chair at the New Designers exhibition at the Business Design Centre in central London from July 10 to July 13.
The event showcases around 4,000 graduates' work each year.
Her designs include a foot rest for shorter users and an in-built table and she says that the chair is ideal for cafes and other busy public places.
She said: "My chair not only provides a good breastfeeding posture which is comfortable and supporting but it also takes into consideration other people's attitudes in relation to breastfeeding in public.
"It helps keep it discreet using privacy wings."
Miss Hart graduates with a degree in Furniture Design from De Montfort University in Leicester this summer and canvassed mothers for their ideas before designing the chair.
She added: "The chair's high back provides good back and neck support while providing a sound posture.
"The arm-rest and wide seat provide plenty of room for mother and baby.
"An optional footrest allows shorter users to lift their feet to create the ideal flat lap and the in-built table allows the user to eat or drink during the baby's feed."
Miss Hart's design coincides with the news that mothers are to get the legal right to breast-feed a baby up to six months in public when the recently announced Equality Bill becomes law.
Under current laws, women who breast-feed in public places can be charged under public order or indecency legislation.
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Annie, Canada says...
3:02am Fri 11 Jul 08
goob, Bromley says...
7:22am Fri 11 Jul 08
Your Lord, Erastus Theobald Piggott wrote:i'm guessing you dont have kids then , babies decide when they are hungry , not a set timetable
Mothers should feed their babies before they go out and return home in time to feed them again. Watching a mother expose her milk-dribbling breast in public is enough to put anyone off their shopping or lunch. Some will say that breast-feeding is natural; well so is the sex act but that is kept behind closed doors - except for the perverts who frequent Dartford Heath, that is. Mums, keep your boobs covered up. Your Lord, Erastus Theobald Piggott
MD, says...
11:14am Fri 11 Jul 08
Mums don't go around exposing there milk dribbling breasts when feeding (such a gross way of putting it), I was able to do it without anyone even knowing, sitting in a special chair would draw more attention than draping a blanket round mum and baby.
Sisyphus, Bromley says...
1:31pm Fri 11 Jul 08
MD wrote:I'm not sure why you even bothered responding to him.
How can feeding a baby be compared to sex and perverts on Dartford Heath? I am guessing that you associate breasts with sex only and not the feeding of babies. Mums don\\\\\\\'t go around exposing there milk dribbling breasts when feeding (such a gross way of putting it), I was able to do it without anyone even knowing, sitting in a special chair would draw more attention than draping a blanket round mum and baby.
MD, says...
1:58pm Fri 11 Jul 08
Sisyphus wrote:I was wondering the same thing. But comments like that make me so angry.
MD wrote: How can feeding a baby be compared to sex and perverts on Dartford Heath? I am guessing that you associate breasts with sex only and not the feeding of babies. Mums don\\\\\\\'t go around exposing there milk dribbling breasts when feeding (such a gross way of putting it), I was able to do it without anyone even knowing, sitting in a special chair would draw more attention than draping a blanket round mum and baby.I'm not sure why you even bothered responding to him.
Sisyphus, Bromley says...
2:19pm Fri 11 Jul 08
MD wrote:Don't get angry. It's just pathetic.
Sisyphus wrote:I was wondering the same thing. But comments like that make me so angry.MD wrote: How can feeding a baby be compared to sex and perverts on Dartford Heath? I am guessing that you associate breasts with sex only and not the feeding of babies. Mums don\\\\\\\'t go around exposing there milk dribbling breasts when feeding (such a gross way of putting it), I was able to do it without anyone even knowing, sitting in a special chair would draw more attention than draping a blanket round mum and baby.I'm not sure why you even bothered responding to him.
Mum of 5, Sidcup says...
2:28pm Fri 11 Jul 08
Kitten, London says...
2:44pm Fri 11 Jul 08
Mum of 5 wrote:Breast feeding in public is gross and it's always the women with the saggy boobs that choose to do it in public too.... gross! They look like saggy udders please show some respect!
I have breast fed all of my children and have fed them when THEY have wanted to be fed. I remember on a bus one day when my eldest now 14 was a baby ... i was told to shut hi up cos he were crying and even tho my confidence was low, I out him under my poncho and fed him, and that raised more of a racket than him crying, until a bus driver told them if they didnt like it they shouldnt look. Breast feeding is all natural. 95% of men only associate breasts with playthings and or sex!!! the female species were designed to feed their oung so why cant we??
MD, says...
3:46pm Fri 11 Jul 08
Kitten wrote:Is it respectful to let a baby go hungry. Women who breastfeed do not have them hanging out,I know I certainly never and wouldn't of wanted to. As someone else has said don't look.
Mum of 5 wrote: I have breast fed all of my children and have fed them when THEY have wanted to be fed. I remember on a bus one day when my eldest now 14 was a baby ... i was told to shut hi up cos he were crying and even tho my confidence was low, I out him under my poncho and fed him, and that raised more of a racket than him crying, until a bus driver told them if they didnt like it they shouldnt look. Breast feeding is all natural. 95% of men only associate breasts with playthings and or sex!!! the female species were designed to feed their oung so why cant we??Breast feeding in public is gross and it's always the women with the saggy boobs that choose to do it in public too.... gross! They look like saggy udders please show some respect!
You made me laugh, - Saggy tits kitten says...
3:50pm Fri 11 Jul 08
Kitten wrote:LOL LOL LOL
Mum of 5 wrote: I have breast fed all of my children and have fed them when THEY have wanted to be fed. I remember on a bus one day when my eldest now 14 was a baby ... i was told to shut hi up cos he were crying and even tho my confidence was low, I out him under my poncho and fed him, and that raised more of a racket than him crying, until a bus driver told them if they didnt like it they shouldnt look. Breast feeding is all natural. 95% of men only associate breasts with playthings and or sex!!! the female species were designed to feed their oung so why cant we??Breast feeding in public is gross and it\'s always the women with the saggy boobs that choose to do it in public too.... gross! They look like saggy udders please show some respect!
Shows how much your know !!!
Breast are purt and plump when filled with milk
You really are a silly little girl LOL
but it just goes to show YOURS must be saggy
Laura, London says...
3:52pm Fri 11 Jul 08
GOD, UP ERE says...
6:16am Sat 26 Jul 08
Me Bless. XXX
Milky Mama, FL says...
3:45pm Sat 26 Jul 08
Heidi, Maine, USA says...
8:28pm Sun 27 Jul 08
Sorcha, London says...
8:57pm Sun 27 Jul 08
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Your Lord, Erastus Theobald Piggott, The Study says...
1:35pm Thu 10 Jul 08
Watching a mother expose her milk-dribbling breast in public is enough to put anyone off their shopping or lunch.
Some will say that breast-feeding is natural; well so is the sex act but that is kept behind closed doors - except for the perverts who frequent Dartford Heath, that is.
Mums, keep your boobs covered up.
Your Lord, Erastus Theobald Piggott