Source: thestir.cafemom.com --- Friday, January 29, 2016
Post by Jacqueline Burt Cote. We've heard plenty of stories about pregnant women being denied alcohol in restaurants and bars, but coffee? Unfortunately, it's true: An expectant mom in Australia wrote this week about a barista who refused to serve her caffeine because of her visible bump -- yes, caffeine! Alexandra Smith, education editor for the Syndey Morning Herald, is 27 weeks pregnant with her third baby -- so, as she writes, unsolicited comments from strangers are nothing new. "I have heard it all from family, friends and plenty of strangers. As a mother-to-be, my body and looks have become fair game," she says. But unwanted advice and cracks about the size of your ankles are one thing -- when strangers feel the need to interfere with your personal choices, that's another entirely. Which is exactly what happened when Smith tried to order a coffee and the barista gave her this incredibly condescending (not to mention medically uninformed) response: "No. No caffeine for you." Smith thought she heard the barista wrong at first. As she points out, "This was a coffee I was a ordering, not a martini." But nope. The barista -- as in, barista, not obstetrician -- decided that it was his duty to police the (completely harmless) actions of a complete stranger. Why? I can only assume that he saw an episode of a sitcom once where a pregnant character went to comically ridiculous lengths to avoid coffee, or he saw a post on his Facebook ...
from Australia http://ift.tt/1nt7POk
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