Talk about a sucky situation.
A Georgia mom has gone viral for her ribald retort to a water park that stopped her from breastfeeding in public.
Tiffany Francis took to Facebook recently to roast Rigby’s Water World in Warner Robins, claiming she faced unfair treatment while nursing her 11-month-old child in the park’s lazy river.
When a manager told Francis no thanks for the mammaries, citing the park’s “No food or drinks in the water” rule, the mother was furious.
“I asked, ‘So my boobs aren’t allowed in the water?'” she wrote on Facebook.
“Imagine all the bodily fluids being excreted into the water, but they’re worried about breastmilk.”
Francis said of the park employee’s issues with her feeding her son: “Really, it wasn’t even about him eating in the water — it was about making other guests uncomfortable.”
Tiffany Francis claims she experienced unfair treatment after she was asked not to breastfeed at Rigby’s Water World in Warner Robins, Georgia. 13WMAZ
Francis wrote out about the incident on Facebook, where she received support from other parents. 13WMAZIn her post, Francis assured followers that nothing was fully exposed during the incident.
She also claimed that she’d been denied her request that the park refund a season pass she’d purchased.
“I can’t go there if I can’t get my son to nap,” she explained.
Francis has since received an apology from the water park’s manager, though she doubts its sincerity. 13WMAZThe response to the post was mixed, with some moms expressing their support, while others argued on behalf of the park and patrons.
State law, however, states Francis was in the right.
Georgia code 31-1-9 explicitly allows a mother to breastfeed her baby “in any location where the mother and baby are otherwise authorized to be.”
Francis posted an update on the fracas, claiming that she had received an apology — which she dubbed “insincere” — from Rigby’s Water World.
She suggested that the mediocre mea culpa, in which the park’s owner opined that “it’s not the best practice” for breastfeeding to be permitted everywhere, was only offered to quell the social media firestorm.
