Hello,
I am looking for a list of shops, cafes, restaurants, etc in and
around the centre of York, that provide breastfeeding facilities.  A
web page with a list would be fine.  (That's a city in the North East
of England, not anywhere else - -"new york" is pretty important in any
search you do.) If you can find another source, and reproduce it here,
that would be fine too.
Thanks, and a good rating awaits a good answer.

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Clarification of Question by jeremymiles-ga on 22 Jun 2002 06:56 PDT

I have a copy of the leaflet "child friendly york" published by the
city council - this lists "facilities" which include nappy changing,
and <i>might</i> include breastfeeding.  I'd like more information
than that, please.

What kind of "facilities" are you looking for? The only necessities
for breastfeeding are a hungry child and a lactating mother. In my
experience, some restaurants have booths with the table too close to
the bench for my wife's comfort, so we've had to move to a table, but
that's about the extent of problems with infrastructure in North
America.

Hi there,

My sister, who lives in Leeds, has never had problems with
breastfeeding in cafes and restaurants there. Have you (or your
partner) had problems before? There's no law against discreet
breastfeeding in public in the UK, and squeamishness about these
things seems definitely to be on the wane.

If there are any places you'd especially like to go to, and you're
nervous about it, just ring them up to make sure that they're
comfortable about it.

grimace

If you are asking which venues have separate rooms for the purpose, I
very much doubt that you will find many.  Probably your best bet is
supermarkets with a separate baby change room, since these sometimes
include seating and so can be used for breastfeeding. Unfortunately,
central York itself does not have that many supermarkets.  I found
some information, which although it relates to a shopping centre in
Croydon, does indicate the policy of chain stores on breastfeeding. 
Therefore, it might indicate shops which are worth investigating in
York: http://www.croydon.gov.uk/images/00254_Breast_Feeding.pdf

However, if your interest is more in which places are happy about
mothers breastfeeding in public, it might be worth contacting the
local contacts for the National Childbirth Trust and the La Leche
League to ask whether they know of places which are either tolerant or
intolerant (ie to avoid) of breastfeeding  (La Leche N. Yorks contact
is Louise - 01765 658683, NCT does not provide a York contact on the
web site, but their enquiry line for contacts is 0870 444 8707).  York
City Council did have a guide to "child-friendly York", but this is no
longer on their website.  Instead, they refer to a new guide being
prepared by the NCT supposedly for release this summer.