Posted on 12/28/2011 11:38:03 AM PST by SmithL
Breastfeeding moms gathered around the country today, including about 50 in the Houston area, for “nurse-ins” in support of a Texas woman who says she was harassed last month while nursing her infant son at a Webster Target store.
The nursing flash mobs were planned in 35 states after women heard about the case of Michelle Hickman, who says employees made her feel uncomfortable when she fed her son at the store while Christmas shopping last month.
“I’ve gotten way more support than I imagined,” Hickman said today outside the Webster store.
The beauty of the protest, she added, was that nursing moms around the country could easily join in the action.
“This is something they can participate in from their own home, their own town. They don’t have to travel with a brand-new infant. They can go to the Target right up the road and support me.”
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At family functions she would excuse herself and find a private room.
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Exactly. That is the way I was with my 4 babies.
Gregg Steinhafel
senior vp
target
Q2-2010
PO BOX 67.
Crystal Bay, MN
$4,800 donation to bachmann for congress
Gregg Steinhafel
senior vp
target
Q2-2010
PO BOX 67.
Crystal Bay, MN
$2,400 donation to bachmann for congress
Gosh, it’s been too long since we’ve had a PBFT (public breast feeding thread).
I’m amazed at the number of freepers who equate pooping with eating (I’ve heard they’re both natural functions, so I guess it’s easy for some to confuse them).
And then the group of freepers who confuse breast feeding and stripping. Or breast feeding and exhibitionism.
You learn a lot about people on these threads. Some folks are really concerned about a baby at the breast in public. I’m not. It’s just a baby getting fed.
I’m all for breast feeding but I think you can work your feeding schedule around your trips to Target. The rest of us may not necessarily want to watch.
My husband and I had a similar experience in an airport several years ago. It was 250-lb, hippy mama accompanied by wimpy papa and 2 ill-behaved children, who were about 2 1/2 and 4, respectively.
Mama wore no bra and had breasts hanging down well below her waist, which made it very convenient for both of the children since each one periodically grabbed a breast for a sip.
As luck would have it, this charming family was in the seats directly in front of us on the flight, where I was given the most unwelcome opportunity to learn that mama smelled as bad as she looked.
They had brought snacks for the kids, and neither parent made any attempt to clean up any of the cookies pieces the kids dropped on the floor.
Too late. The OWS already pooped on cop cars, in public parks, on the sidewalks, in the streets, and everywhere else.
As for whipping out the boobies, that's udderly ridiculous. There's a time and place for everything and in the middle of a department store is nothing but a pitiful cry for attention. Target sells pumps, buy one. Target also has a restroom, use it. She could also have gone out to her car but noooooo, she did it on purpose to get her name in the paper.
Nah, it’s simple respect for someone else.
Not everyone wants to see women changing diapers, nor does everyone want to see women walking around with their shirt unbuttoned to their waiste, both boobs flopping with a baby attached to one (yeah, I’ve seen this - at Target, in fact).
Every woman I know, who has breastfed (including my daughters) do so discreetly, with a blanket over their shoulder, discreetly and privately. They show the same level of discretion when they change the diapers. Whether it’s in the trunk of a car, in the women’s restroom, or in a park. Privately and discreetly.
There are no laws against breastfeeding, nor should there be. So, why the “Protest”? So a group of women can get some public ‘attention’ and proclaim that they have a right to do ‘publically’ what women have been doing privately since the dawn of civilization. It’s really nothing than a form of exhibition - as in “deriving a sexual thrill from the public exposure of body parts traditionally reserved for private and intimate moments”.
You're not sick. You're just juvenile.
And far and away, the huge majority of women who publically breastfeed do so as you suggest, with a high degree of discretion.
It’s the painting of the vast middle with the tiny extreme that bothers me.
I daresay one sees more women showing serious cleavage in church than one sees publically breastfeeding in a month of sundays at Target. And yes, I’m sure not your church. But I think you know what I mean.
It’s amazing to me. Rarely (if ever) will the sight of cavernous cleavage start threads, but put a baby on that boob and off we go. And fashions being what they are, you see more boob with the clothes on than with the baby nursing.
Don’t get me wrong, I am a fan of discretion, but if a woman is discreetly, yet publically, breastfeeding, it likely won’t even register.
Exactly, but that isn't what the militants are doing. It's not about breast-feeding; it's about getting some attention.
I just have sense humor.
Exactly, but that isn’t what the militants are doing. It’s not about breast-feeding; it’s about getting some attention.
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Perhaps we are in more agreement than we realize?
Folks who do it for attention are the easiest for me to completely ignore.
The tone on this thread seems to suggest that all women who publically breast feed are doing for attention and I just don’t see that at all.
LOL, not hoping for a glimpse, seen enough already. Breastfed my own 3 kids.
Actually, I clicked on the thread ready to defend the protestors, but when I saw the woman sitting in the middle of the sidewalk nursing her baby I agreed with the op- it was all about exhibitionism to her.
I bf all of my kids in public, but no one probably even knew because I didn’t sit in the middle of the sidewalk and do it. Also did my share of breastfeeding in public restrooms, until I realized that I wouldn’t eat in there- so why was I feeding my baby in there?? To protect someone’s sensibilities?? Breastfeeding is totally natural and what God made breasts for. Breastfeeding in public shouldn’t be a problem and shame on Target for making it an issue. But what this woman is doing in the picture at Target is a joke.
I think it’s a shame that women are made to feel that they should breastfeed in private in a dingy old dressing room. Breastfeeding is NOT sexual, so it shouldn’t have to be done in some closed box room in the back of the store. Sheesh.
Equating breastfeeding a baby with pooping??
Just wow.
Heh. :)
MY local CBS station station showed a clip from the Wateford CT Target. A dozen or so mothers lined up in front of the store entrance breastfeeding. Nothing more than an adult temper tantrum.
Oh, you're so right.
Takes all kinds,........
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