London: Baby needs a snack and Mom needs privacy? Here are go-to spots

If the royal baby, whose name, George Alexander Louis, was announced on Wednesday or any baby suddenly wants a snack while Mom is in public, what’s a privacy-seeking woman to do to avoid being caught by prying cameras or, probably more to the point, people who are offended by babies at the bosom in public?

Enter the Breastfeeding Welcome Scheme, a British program that signs up shops, restaurants and other public places as bona fide partners in supporting mothers who need to nurse their children.

“Many businesses and other venues have an open attitude to breastfeeding, but women have no way of knowing this,” the website says. The program enlists receptive businesses, and mothers with nursing babies then go to the website to search for appropriate venues.

In greater London, for example, the Mudchute Park and Farm on Pier Street and the V&A; Museum of Childhood on Cambridge Heath Road are happy to welcome moms and their hungry babies.

Once feeding time is over, London’s parks are a fun place to visit, whether the kids are royal or not. The Diana Memorial Fountain in Hyde Park made from Cornish granite with a swirling design is dedicated to the life of Prince William’s mother, Princess Diana, who died in a car crash in 1997.

Not far away is the Diana Memorial Playground with a pirate ship and other sculptures built near Kensington Palace, where she lived.

mary.forgione@latimes.com
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