Breastfeeding Flashmob in Brighton

http://oneworldbirth.net - The South East Coast of England's first ever breastfeeding flashmob! Filmed in Brighton, UK on December 15th 2011 for One World Birth, a FREE video resource website featuring the world's leading birth experts that campaigns for better births.

Organised by a local mum who was verbally abused in a cafe for breastfeeding in public. Her response was to set up a breastfeeding flashmob, (a "fleshmob") then she told people about it via the social networks. The result was dozens of breastfeeding mamas, broadcast TV news crews, newspaper photographers and this short film! Really shows the power of social media to transform a local campaign into something bigger and more powerful in record quick time!

Category:

Film & Animation

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• Breastfeeding FlashMob
• breastfeeding flash mob
• breastfeeding
• brighton
• Flash Mob

[hlywdbabylon138]

Yes, well done. No more meals on toilets!!!!

[mrsbicewdw]

Awesome! We need one of these organized where I live.

[brisade1]

That is so AWESOME!! thank you so much!

[Trinismum]

Damn I missed it! When's the next one???

[MrsBassinyourface]

Brilliant ladies. Nothing wrong with giving our babies what nature intended them to have.

[MrBabies123]

As long as the mother is very discreet and does not let everything "hang out" in full view of other diners. If she sits down in a cafe etc she should be expected to buy a drink etc for herself and not just expect to be able to sit there and feed her baby..

[FreyaG19]

We need one here!

[MrStokie123]

And not a breast in sight!! Wouldnt it be great to organise one in every town and city. Thinking of doing one in Plymouth

[wildliferanger1]

Well done, go for it. It is your right and best for baby, and I wish I'd been there when that mum was harassed. People need to stick up for a mum's right to breastfeed, wherever she wants to!!

[lapetite67]

Wonderful to see! Well done for standing up to ignorant bigotry

[wildwoman222]

People are so strange, if you don't want to watch it, don't! It is much more natural than eating the garbage they are serving at McDonalds Frankenfood.. that is disgusting...

[Fit2Bust]

My book Fit to Bust (see FB page) has a song written 20 years ago by Janet Russell about harassment in a cafe in Preston Park, Brighton. Here's the refrain: 'Breastfeeding baby in the park, you’ll have to go and do it after dark; there are parts of you and me that other people don’t want to see - you can’t breastfeed your baby in the park.' The song ends by describing a similar BF sit-in which resulted in a council byelaw saying cafes etc shouldn't harass BF families. Where is that law now?