Breastfeeding and the GAA

Jim Bob Scratcher · 04-07-2018 12:45AM #1

https://www.independent.ie/life/family/mothers-babies/i-was-sickened-mayo-fan-told-by-a-steward-to-breastfeed-her-baby-in-the-toilets-at-kildare-game-last-weekend-37076210.html

Gaa steward told a mother who was breastfeeding her baby to go do it in the toilet. I thought Kildare was a progressive part of Ireland? :pac:

Roger Hassenforder · 04-07-2018 12:49AM

Jim Bob Scratcher wrote: »

https://www.independent.ie/life/family/mothers-babies/i-was-sickened-mayo-fan-told-by-a-steward-to-breastfeed-her-baby-in-the-toilets-at-kildare-game-last-weekend-37076210.html

Gaa steward told a mother who was breastfeeding her baby to go do it in the toilet. I thought Kildare was a progressive part of Ireland? :pac:

What a tit though

Noveight · 04-07-2018 12:54AM

Who names a baby Senan? How would you look at an hour old baby and go "That's the head of a Senan if ever I saw one"

04-07-2018 01:45AM

Noveight wrote: »

Who names a baby Senan? How would you look at an hour old baby and go "That's the head of a Senan if ever I saw one"

Or Keith. Or Nigel.

Try_harder · 04-07-2018 03:38AM

Boobies! Ah!!!! Someone cover that with a high viz or something!!!

AllForIt · 04-07-2018 03:51AM

I hope this incident didn't spoil the babies enjoyment of the game too much.

pickarooney · 04-07-2018 04:37AM

AllForIt wrote: »

I hope this incident didn't spoil the babies enjoyment of the game too much.

In 90 years he'll still need someone to feed him and he'll still be waiting for Mayo to win.

Canis Lupus · 04-07-2018 05:23AM

Noveight wrote: »

Who names a baby Senan? How would you look at an hour old baby and go "That's the head of a Senan if ever I saw one"

Mother is called Iseult. Kid had no chance of being called Dave.

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo · 04-07-2018 05:33AM

Who wants to sit in a car for hours and go to a match with a baby?

Matches have crowds and shouting, can't really think of a worse place to have a baby at. Child yes, but why subject a baby to a match. Will she ask the crowd to not cheer for a score when the baby is ready for a nap. Ridiculous.

Verity. · 04-07-2018 05:37AM

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

Who wants to sit in a car for hours and go to a match with a baby?

Matches have crowds and shouting, can't really think of a worse place to have a baby at. Child yes, but why subject a baby to a match. Will she ask the crowd to not cheer for a score when the baby is ready for a nap. Ridiculous.

Hardcore GAA fans would probably give birth in the stadium if they could. The obsession starts very early on.

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo · 04-07-2018 05:55AM

Verity. wrote: »

Hardcore GAA fans would probably give birth in the stadium if they could. The obsession starts very early on.

Would they use Hawkeye to clear up any problems then for the birth and show it up on the big screen?

Ah seriously though, a massive crowd at a match is no place for a baby. It's like bringing it to a Formula 1 race or a Metallica concert. Big loud crowds of people is simply not a fair environment to bring a baby into willingly.

Verity. · 04-07-2018 06:18AM

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

Would they use Hawkeye to clear up any problems then for the birth and show it up on the big screen?

Ah seriously though, a massive crowd at a match is no place for a baby. It's like bringing it to a Formula 1 race or a Metallica concert. Big loud crowds of people is simply not a fair environment to bring a baby into willingly.

I'd be inclined to agree with you, don't get me wrong.

Fanatics mightn't see the issue though, early exposure and all that. Look in the crowds, even at an F1 race you're bound to see someone holding a baby in Red bull or McLaren clobber.

J.pilkington · 04-07-2018 06:30AM

Someone looking for their 5seconds of fame and no better gutter paper to give it. It’s a non story of one uneducated steward who probably heard every excuse to get to unauthorised areas. She acknowledged that she got sorted very quickly afterwards.

Maybe she could broaden her reach and do a slot on liveline, maybe even a book deal and the inevitable court case.

To be honest I’d challenge her story and question her parenting skills subjecting a 5 month old to a needless 5 hour car journey (car seats are not great for a baby over long periods of time) and then the high noise levels that goes on at a GAA match. That poor baby wouldn’t have been able to lie flat on their back at all that day. Selfish woman. Probably bitter her team lost again.

pickarooney · 04-07-2018 08:48AM

Canis Lupus wrote: »

Mother is called Iseult. Kid had no chance of being called Dave.

I heard she once auditioned to join The Blockheads but got turned down.

Because that would be adding Iseult to Ian Dury.

somesoldiers · 04-07-2018 09:05AM

I have a huge issue with breast feeding in public...the child's head gets in the way and you cant get a good look at the diddy

04-07-2018 09:16AM

Noveight wrote: »

Who names a baby Senan? How would you look at an hour old baby and go "That's the head of a Senan if ever I saw one"

People who like the name? People who like the name and are from an area where it's a traditional name due to a local St Senan - e.g. Clare?

Far better if those Irish abandoned the Irish tradition and gave all those notion-filled wannabe English names like Harry, George, Max and Alex to their kids.

ceadaoin. · 04-07-2018 09:20AM

J.pilkington wrote: »

To be honest I’d challenge her story and question her parenting skills subjecting a 5 month old to a needless 5 hour car journey (car seats are not great for a baby over long periods of time) and then the high noise levels that goes on at a GAA match. That poor baby wouldn’t have been able to lie flat on their back at all that day. Selfish woman. Probably bitter her team lost again.

If they have other kids then family life doesn't just stop when a new baby arrives. When they're a baby is the best time to take them places like a sports match. They are extremely portable and are happy just bring held and fed for hours on end. Maybe she did something to muffle the sound for the baby?

I seem to say this in all the baby/mother bashing threads on here but children and babies are part of society and it shouldn't be unusual to see them out and about in that society, even in places that they can't actively participate in just yet such as sports events and restaurants. Get over it.

washman3 · 04-07-2018 11:34AM

Before I read the full story in the Indo I just thought a woman had been stopped breastfeeding by a steward at a GAA match.
Totally shocked to hear that the woman took her child on a THREE AND A HALF HOUR car journey from Mayo to Newbridge on one of the hottest days in 40 years to attend an extremely noisy GAA match.
Honestly I think this woman has far bigger issues than the breastfeeding excuse.
The ISPCC should come out and highlight her actions.

i71jskz5xu42pb · 04-07-2018 11:40AM

washman3 wrote: »

Totally shocked to hear that the woman took her child on a THREE AND A HALF HOUR car journey from Mayo to Newbridge on one of the hottest days in 40 years to attend an extremely noisy GAA match.
Honestly I think this woman has far bigger issues than the breastfeeding excuse.
The ISPCC should come out and highlight her actions.

Won't someone think of the children!

Jaysus, you'd swear she asked the child to push the car from Mayo the way you're going on.

If you had kids you'd know they are tough enough for a car journey and some noise, very little mollycoddling required

Day Lewin · 04-07-2018 11:43AM

Technically illegal. Mother has a right to feed her child anywhere she likes, any place at all. And rightly so.

Schoolboy sniggering over this natural and normal business is really, really immature.

17larsson · 04-07-2018 11:45AM

washman3 wrote: »

Before I read the full story in the Indo I just thought a woman had been stopped breastfeeding by a steward at a GAA match.
Totally shocked to hear that the woman took her child on a THREE AND A HALF HOUR car journey from Mayo to Newbridge on one of the hottest days in 40 years to attend an extremely noisy GAA match.
Honestly I think this woman has far bigger issues than the breastfeeding excuse.
The ISPCC should come out and highlight her actions.

The car had air-conditioning and the baby was asleep for most of the journey. I just listened to an interview with her on newstalk.
Families can have lives too. The other kids would have been delighted to be at the game and the baby would have been just as happy

washman3 · 04-07-2018 11:45AM

Kenia Rapping Cocoa wrote: »

If you had kids you'd know they are tough enough for a car journey and some noise, very little mollycoddling required

In the middle of a heatwave and one of the hottest days in 40 years.??
She could've gone to the beach in Mayo or a playground.
A much better environment for a young child rather than being in the middle of 10,000 roaring GAA fans.

theyoungchap · 04-07-2018 11:46AM

Kenia Rapping Cocoa wrote: »

If you had kids you'd know.......

As soon as I see or hear those 6 words I just cringe.....it just screams superiority complex of people who have kids.
Out of curiousity, how do you know he/she doesn't have kids?
I will have kids in a few years and have already told OH that we are never using that phrase.

farmchoice · 04-07-2018 11:46AM

washman3 wrote: »

Before I read the full story in the Indo I just thought a woman had been stopped breastfeeding by a steward at a GAA match.
Totally shocked to hear that the woman took her child on a THREE AND A HALF HOUR car journey from Mayo to Newbridge on one of the hottest days in 40 years to attend an extremely noisy GAA match.
Honestly I think this woman has far bigger issues than the breastfeeding excuse.
The ISPCC should come out and highlight her actions.

here, here
i'm from mayo, big football fan and i have 3 kids the eldest is an eight year old boy.

he's mad into football so i have been bringing him to the games for the last couple of years, the younger 2 are only 4 and 2 so there is no way i would bring them to any game.

i refused to bring the 8 year old to this game for the reason outlined above

3 hour car journey in the heat standing up for 3 hours in the heat etc.

this woman should be ashamed of herself for bringing a little baby to this game.

Idle Passerby · 04-07-2018 11:49AM

It's horrible to hear so many people think babies, and therefore presumably their mothers aswell should stay out of public sight until the child is old enough to go to a Gaa match by themselves!

I'm sure it's hard enough being a parent to a small child without judgemental alarmists shouting your a monster for daring to step foot outside the front door!

kylith · 04-07-2018 11:50AM

washman3 wrote: »

Kenia Rapping Cocoa wrote: »

If you had kids you'd know they are tough enough for a car journey and some noise, very little mollycoddling required

In the middle of a heatwave and one of the hottest days in 40 years.??
She could've gone to the beach in Mayo or a playground.
A much better environment for a young child rather than being in the middle of 10,000 roaring GAA fans.

The beach would have been just as hot, if not hotter, with bugger all shade.

If the car has air conditioning the temperature in it would have been lovely. My brother’s car is kept at a freezing temperature these days.

washman3 · 04-07-2018 11:50AM

Day Lewin wrote: »

Technically illegal. Mother has a right to feed her child anywhere she likes, any place at all. And rightly so.

Schoolboy sniggering over this natural and normal business is really, really immature.

She is also required to display basic common sense, ie making a totally needless 3 and a hour trip in blistering heat with a young child just to satisfy her own ego, is plain madness.

jimgoose · 04-07-2018 11:51AM

Canis Lupus wrote: »

Mother is called Iseult...

Bingo. This is why she's on a national broadsheet complaining about not being able to breastfeed a small baby at a GAA match. She's probably a bigger focking cont than Sorcha, yeah no.

farmchoice · 04-07-2018 11:53AM

Idle Passerby wrote: »

It's horrible to hear so many people think babies, and therefore presumably their mothers aswell should stay out of public sight until the child is old enough to go to a Gaa match by themselves!

I'm sure it's hard enough being a parent to a small child without judgemental alarmists shouting your a monster for daring to step foot outside the front door!

nobody said any of things you outlined,
have a bit of sense.

washman3 · 04-07-2018 12:01PM

Idle Passerby wrote: »

It's horrible to hear so many people think babies, and therefore presumably their mothers aswell should stay out of public sight until the child is old enough to go to a Gaa match by themselves!

I'm sure it's hard enough being a parent to a small child without judgemental alarmists shouting your a monster for daring to step foot outside the front door!

There is nobody here suggesting anything like that, just you twisting things to suit your agenda.
What some people are saying, and rightly so, is that this woman displayed poor judgement and common sense by bringing a young child on a long, and needless, journey in the middle of a heatwave to attend a very loud event that would last at least 2 hours.

Keano · 04-07-2018 12:05PM

washman3 wrote: »

There is nobody here suggesting anything like that, just you twisting things to suit your agenda.
What some people are saying, and rightly so, is that this woman displayed poor judgement and common sense by bringing a young child on a long, and needless, journey in the middle of a heatwave to attend a very loud event that would last at least 2.

You said it yourself she should have gone to a playground or beach!!

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