PHOTOS: Women breastfeed in public in protest over treatment of mother

A crowd of mothers have protested outside Claridge’s hotel by breast-feeding their children in unison.

The group Free to Feed organised the ‘nurse-in’ today outside the Mayfair venue in reaction the treatment mother Louise Burns received while she was there earlier this week.

The 35-year-old was told to cover her baby’s head with a napkin when she was breastfeeding during tea.

Campaigner Carla Mastroianni and her baby

Free to Feed’s founder, Emily Slough, thought such incidents discouraged women from breast-feeding.

‘We’re here to challenge that stigma and show women it’s normal and natural,’ she said.

A young child with a sign stuffed into its baby carrier

Claridge’s said it embraced breast-feeding, but requested women were ‘discreet’ toward other guests.

Ukip leader Nigel Farage drew criticism yesterday when he said hotels had the right to ask breast-feeding women to ‘perhaps sit in the corner.’