The move follows legislation that was passed in the Scottish Parliament last week. MSPs voted by 103-13 to make it illegal to bar women from breastfeeding children under two in public or in family-friendly licensed premises.
Rosemary Dodds, policy officer at the National Childbirth Trust, said that the charity supported the introduction of similar legislation south of the border.
She said that although it was "relatively rare" for negative incidents to be reported, even confident and articulate women could find breastfeeding for the first time in public intimidating.
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