'End public breastfeed prejudice'

Mothers who want to breastfeed their babies in public should be protected from the prejudice that sometimes stops them from doing so, an MP says. Labour's David Kidney is calling for the Department of Health to give nursing parents more information about the benefits of breast feeding. He is introducing a bill to stop "discrimination" against breastfeeders. "It beats me that people can ogle breasts in newspapers" but cannot bear seeing a breastfeeding mother, he said. Mr Kidney told MPs that there was "research...