“Our staff member should have acted differently and not have asked you to move to another location at the club to continue feeding your baby,” the letter said. On October 17th, the President of Lambton’s board of governors, Bob Beaumont, and the club’s Chief Operating Officer, John Demko, sent an apology to Shimo and posted it publicly, the Star reported. That post generated a thread of infuriated comments from around the world, the Star reported, some from women who reacted by sharing their own similar experiences. The way that the club’s staffer treated her was an attempt to accommodate people who are intolerant of something natural, she added.Īfter the incident, the Star reported, Grimanis posted a photo on Facebook showing Shimo breastfeeding and a caption explaining that she had been taken to the club’s basement. “I thought, why are people disgusted or upset by the sight of a child eating while they are eating? It didn’t make any sense to me,” she said. Shimo says she was then led by a staff member to the basement to continue feeding Jacob, the Star reported. Then, she recalled, someone who she thinks was the restaurant’s manager approached her with a cloth to shield her from view, citing complaints from people who did not want to see her breastfeeding while they were eating, the Star reported.
Shimo was attending a charity gala at the club with her partner Lia Grimanis on October 15 th, the Star reported, when her two-and-a-half-month-old baby, Jacob, got hungry during dinner, and she went into a hallway corner to feed him.
Lambton Golf and Country Club in Toronto, Ontario, Canada has apologized to Alexandra Shimo, the Toronto Star reported, after a Facebook post about an incident where a club staff member escorted her to the basement after she began to breastfeed her baby in a clubhouse hallway touched off a social-media storm.
After a woman attending a charity event at Lambton G&CC was escorted by a staff member to the basement after starting to breastfeed her infant in a clubhouse hallway, the club’s leadership sent her an apology and posted it publicly, helping to calm a fast-growing social-media storm fueled by a Facebook post about the incident.
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