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Breastfeeding mom slams dentist who told her to cover up
NY Post ^ | December 5, 2018 | 4:09pm | y Tamar Lapin

Posted on 12/05/2018 1:36:05 PM PST by conservative98

An upstate mom blasted her dentist as “Dr. Ignorant” for telling her she needed to stop breastfeeding in an exam room.

Mother-of-two Tiffany Elliott, from Irondequoit in suburban Rochester, said she was “beside herself” after being “shamed” by her dentist, Dr. Robin Craig, for starting to breastfeed her 9-month-old daughter, Ember, during her older daughter’s appointment.

“I had Ember cradled and one hand at the bottom of my shirt, with ZERO skin exposed. Dr. Ignorant then says, ‘Ok I’m uncomfortable and whatever you are doing there needs to stop!’, while motioning around her chest with her hands frantically,” Elliott, 30, wrote on Facebook Saturday. “My jaw dropped you guys!”

Elliott said she explained that based on a 1994 state law, she has a right to breastfeed her child in any public location.

“Her ignorance and comfort level does NOT trump my baby’s needs,” she wrote.

But Craig brushed it off, suggesting the family find a new dentist, Elliott said.

“I CRIED you guys!” she wrote. “Anyone who knows me, knows that is NOT me! I felt so embarrassed. Not by the thing I love, which is nurturing my baby wherever and whenever, but by the total IGNORANCE of a society they breeds such clowns.”

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To: TexasGator

https://www.nysbreastfeeding.org/laws-and-legislation/


21 posted on 12/05/2018 1:44:46 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: conservative98

Now as a guy, and using this idiot’s logic, if I whip my hoo-hah out in public and start urinating, people should be just as accepting. Right??


22 posted on 12/05/2018 1:44:51 PM PST by ObozoMustGo2012 ("Be quiet... you are #fakenews!")
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To: Moonman62

I’m sure the “lady” wouldn’t have minded if the good doc had pulled out his erect male member and said “sorry, it was causing me discomfort constricted in my underwear.” Then carried on with his business.


23 posted on 12/05/2018 1:45:25 PM PST by lodi90
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To: katana

doc is female


24 posted on 12/05/2018 1:46:01 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Fido969

Dentist was a she.

The way this is written, you really have to read it carefully to glean that.

One woman calling another out.


25 posted on 12/05/2018 1:47:14 PM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: conservative98

...Craig brushed it off, suggesting the family find a new dentist...

BINGO


26 posted on 12/05/2018 1:47:48 PM PST by McGruff
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To: Sacajaweau

The woman dentist got a protest and death threats because she said she wasn’t comfortable and left the room. These are some mean moms.


27 posted on 12/05/2018 1:48:37 PM PST by conservative98
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To: conservative98
OK ... I know your shouldn't base your opinions on one photograph ... but it's a "selfie" and that's strike one, right there.

Between the selfie and the article, I put her around (7,9.5).

That's definite danger zone material.

28 posted on 12/05/2018 1:49:44 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Sacajaweau

Didn’t catch that. Thanks. But it makes the story even weirder.


29 posted on 12/05/2018 1:49:45 PM PST by katana
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To: Raycpa

I agree. The dentist has an obligation to minimize “germs”, and possibly felt that the breast was potentially a problem from that perspective.

Personally, it seems like she might have tried to wait until the other child’s exam was complete or left the room out of consideration for the dentist and dental assistant trying to do their jobs.


30 posted on 12/05/2018 1:50:29 PM PST by NEMDF
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To: conservative98

Jeez, if one wants to be offended at a dentist, try looking at an $800 bill to pull a tooth. String, meet doorknob...


31 posted on 12/05/2018 1:51:16 PM PST by cport (How can political capital be spent on a bunch of ingrates)
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To: conservative98

I breast fed....but when I went out, I took a bottle with me. All this public feeding is totally unnecessary. Why do these moms insist on making a spectacle of themselves?


32 posted on 12/05/2018 1:52:26 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: conservative98

The dentist should have asked if she’d like him to squeeze it so the baby could get every last drop. :)


33 posted on 12/05/2018 1:53:35 PM PST by cuban leaf
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To: conservative98

Helping or even working with people has gotten harder and harder. Too damned many mental defectives and emotional basket cases


34 posted on 12/05/2018 1:53:54 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: conservative98

Thanks for sharing this additional info.

Sort of sounds like the mother is looking for a fight or a lawsuit. Maybe a GoFundMe, due to the trauma she endured.

It looks like the owner/founder of the dental practice made every effort to reach out and apologize for the incident, but that was not good enough for her and some whacko liberals that will now probably bomb his offices or something.


35 posted on 12/05/2018 1:54:35 PM PST by NEMDF
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

if I whip my hoo-hah out in public and start urinating,


You can in New York and California.


36 posted on 12/05/2018 1:54:55 PM PST by o-n-money (We should rename California to Newer Mexico.)
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To: conservative98

These women don’t a man to tell them what to do for any reason, even if they are making the man uncomfortable. A man’s discomfort or rights are of no consequence to some women.


37 posted on 12/05/2018 1:55:57 PM PST by Crucial
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To: Catmom

Prepare for the backlash.

There are breast-out activists here.


38 posted on 12/05/2018 1:56:53 PM PST by treetopsandroofs
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

There’s always one or more morons on FR the try to equate feeding a child with the elimination of bodily waste.


39 posted on 12/05/2018 1:57:22 PM PST by raybbr (That progressive bumper sticker on your car might just as wll say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!"to)
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To: treetopsandroofs

I’m not talking about breasts from the male point of view.


40 posted on 12/05/2018 1:58:57 PM PST by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.r)
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