{"id":10309,"date":"2011-05-23T23:12:22","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T23:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2011\/05\/23\/breast-feeding-baroness-first-to-feed-her-son-in-the-upper-house\/"},"modified":"2011-05-23T23:12:22","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T23:12:22","slug":"breast-feeding-baroness-first-to-feed-her-son-in-the-upper-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2011\/05\/23\/breast-feeding-baroness-first-to-feed-her-son-in-the-upper-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Breast feeding Baroness first to feed her son in the Upper House"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Juggling bills and baby: Baroness Bryony Worthington at home in Cambridge with six month old baby Rohan<\/div>\n
It has a reputation for being rather a stuffy old place. But the House of Lords has proved to be remarkably welcoming towards its first breastfeeding member and her baby son.<\/div>\n
Baroness Worthington feeds six month old Rohan Worthington Chennu on the Lords\u2019 terrace, in her office or in one of the ladies\u2019 lavatories \u2013 and says Their Noble Lordships are always delighted to see him.<\/div>\n
When the newly created Labour peer, 39, is dealing with papers and committee work, Rohan is looked after in the opposition chief whip\u2019s office.<\/div>\n
She has also secured a Lords\u2019 visitor\u2019s pass for her babysitter.<\/div>\n
Today Lady Worthington, an environmental campaigner, said: \u2018Rohan is a cheerful chap and likes being out and about. It\u2019s quite a novelty to see a baby in the Lords so all the peers stop and have a little talk or a play with him.\u2019<\/div>\n
\u2018The usual comment when they see him is, \u201cHere comes the youngest member of the House of Lords\u201d.\u2019 <\/div>\n
Lady Worthington, who is herself the youngest woman member of the Lords, added: \u2018He\u2019s much happier being taken to the Lords than being at home.\u2019 <\/div>\n
\u2018He likes being stimulated, so this is ideal. It\u2019s very bright and busy. He looks around at all the gold and colour. I think he probably thinks it\u2019s normal now.\u2019 <\/div>\n
She is believed to be the first member of the Lords to breastfeed in its precincts in its 700 year history.<\/div>\n
Married to neuroscientist Dr Srivas Chennu, she commutes to Parliament from their Cambridge home. The couple will consider full-time child care when Rohan is older, she says.<\/div>\n
Bryony Worthington founded the carbon trading think-thank and campaign group Sandbag and played a key role helping David Milliband to write the 2008 Climate Change Act.<\/div>\n
She was elevated to the Lords last November by Ed Milliband while expecting her first child. In her maiden speech earlier this year she thanked \u2018all the staff of the house who have made my baby son feel very welcome\u2019.<\/div>\n
No rules prevent breastfeeding in the Lords generally, but it is not permitted to breastfeed in the chamber. <\/div>\n
Recent reports have indicated that Lord Strathclyde, the leader of the Lords, was considering changing the rules so young mothers could breastfeed their children \u2018discreetly\u2019 in the chamber. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Juggling bills and baby: Baroness Bryony Worthington at home in Cambridge with six month old baby Rohan It has a reputation for being rather a stuffy old place. But the House of Lords has proved to be remarkably welcoming towards its first breastfeeding member and her baby son. Baroness Worthington feeds six month old Rohan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}