A breastfeeding mother burst into tears when a supermarket clerk told her to stop because it was “inappropriate”

A mother burst into tears when an employee in Super Market told her to stop breastfeeding her daughter in her car that was parked outside the store. Beth Coles, 25, took little Rosie to feed her because she was irritable.

She says she “burst into tears” when the worker knocked on the window of her car and told her that what she was doing was “inappropriate”. An apology was issued by the British supermarket, while the statement referred to an “unacceptable experience”.

Coles said her family had visited the store Friday night, returning home after a day with her in-laws. “We started shopping when our four-week-old baby started crying,” she said. mother on the BBC.

“I did not want her to start screaming in the store and I decided to take her out,” he says, noting that he was covered with a blanket when he saw a working woman heading to the car and knocking on the window.

“I opened it, thinking that something might have happened to me. He told me: “You can not do that, please, I think it is inappropriate”. “I had nothing to answer her, I just burst into tears.”

Coles notes that this experience made her reluctant to leave the house and began to worry about breastfeeding. “I just wanted to give up. “If this is the reaction from people who should encourage new mothers, then why bother?”

As the BBC notes, in Britain women are encouraged to breastfeed and asking a woman to leave a public place because she is breastfeeding is illegal.

Julia Cooper, who campaigned for it to be considered a crime to photograph a person breastfeeding without his consent, said she was disgusted by what happened.

The store insisted that breastfeeding is welcome in its stores. A spokesman said he was investigating the incident.