Breastfeeding in Your Town-- Share Your Stories!
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Got a story you'd like to get off your chest? Maybe you got an encouraging word when you NIPped (nursed in public), or maybe you faced down someone who was giving you and your baby that disapproving look. Or maybe you're working with a local group to make breastfeeding more accepted in your area.
You could also share the kind of breastfeeding support you got from your local hospital (whether you gave birth last week, last year or last decade-- it'd be fun to get a sense of how things are, or aren't, changing). Or how your employer feels about pumping at work. Maybe you've even contributed to a milk bank, donated milk to a friend who couldn't breastfeed, or have a great story about nursing twins.
Adoptive moms, formula-feeding moms, grandmamas, childcare providers and others should feel free to jump in too. What's the situation like in your area-- are people pro-bf'ing, neutral, against? Do you actually see people bf'ing in your town? Everyone who has ever been a caregiver of an infant has at least heard *something* about breastfeeding and been given different amounts of support related to their decisions.
Support comes from places you don't expect
I had to do a lot to get pregnant, spend time on bed rest, give up my plans for a birthing center midwife assisted birth, so by goodness I was going to do breast feeding right! So I ordered some great nursing tops and I nursed on demand any where I happened to be all the while rehearsing in my mind how I would defend myself if some one said something. No one did. Then one day I was in our local cafe nursing my daughter and this older gentleman walked by and stopped. I thought "oh no he's going to say something eek! "
He looked me in the eye and said "congratulations you are doing the best thing you cando for your baby!" He saw me sort of relax and I said thank you I thought you where going to say something else entirely, he said oh no my wife nursed all our children and ran a breast feeding support group, never let anyone tell you not to feed your child. I will always be grateful for that.
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Breastfeeding mom harassed by mall security! So on news channel 7 @ 6 I was on the news because I was harassed last night by a security officer at the mall.
There were a few things that they didn't put in their story...
1) The officer called the Spartanburg City Police on me.
2) Refused to look at the card stating the law from DHEC & SCOPE.
3) When her supervisor told her she was in the wrong she refused to apologize..
4) She stood over my table the entire time I ate.
Next the mall says they were "Just trying to help."
If they were just trying to help then why did they...
-call the police on me.
-take my information & require my mother to go out to the vehicle to get my license to do a report against me.
-feel the need to tell the officer to apologize to me.
-need backup
My civil rights and my child's civil rights were violated yesterday. They demanded that I cover her or go to a bathroom. There is soo much to the story but it's ridiculous.
There is a poll on the home page of news channel 7 asking if breastfeeding in public offends you.
http://www.wspa.com/midatlantic/spa/home.html
it's in the middle on the right side...
Feel free to call westgate mall or write letters!
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