[lOKKI]

Here's an issue looking for someone to argue against it.

This is all about attention and fund-raising... not about fixing any problem.

Where are the statistics demonstrating that there's been a problem? How many people have attended sporting events, and of them how many were nursing mothers with their babies?

Of those nursing mothers, how many documented problems did they have?

Something tells me that the percentage of sports stadium visitors reporting documented problems because of no written breast feeding policy is

.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001

Oh! I loved this quote:

She said feeding her baby in a bathroom would be ``unsanitary.''

Could anybody rationally explain that one for me? I keep trying to imagine how any, uhm, "important element" in the breast feeding equation would get dirty....

[Stone Mountain]

Could anybody rationally explain that one for me? I keep trying to imagine how any, uhm, "important element" in the breast feeding equation would get dirty....

When toilets get flushed, there is some amount of fecal matter than can get aerosolized and enter the environment if the seat isn't closed when flushing. Not sure if there is that much of a risk there, but I've heard it said that one shouldn't keep toothbrushes unprotected in a bathroom for this reason.

[GatorGirl]

Unless it's an upscale bathroom in a hotel or club, there is usually no place to sit besides the toilet. I breastfed my babies for longer than a couple of months and could never bring myself to sit on a toilet to do it. Of course, I always sought out the least conspicuous spot and covered up with a blanket, but I suppose some people knew what was going on.

Women who refuse to be discreet while nursing offend me, but I don't support feeling stuck at home or being treated like a flasher if the baby needs to eat!

[Darnright]

> Could anybody rationally explain that one for me?<

Well, let's see. I apologize for being graphic, but many public restrooms smell worse than a zoo or a dog pound. Theoretically, what you smell is being inhaled into your body.

Would you voluntarily go sit on a public toilet to eat your dinner?

[gogeo]

She said feeding her baby in a bathroom would be ``unsanitary.''

I haven't followed that...would she squirt it on the ground, and make the baby lick it off the floor?

[andy58-in-nh]

Here's an issue looking for someone to argue against it.

Man, have you got that right. Haven't we all had enough of advocacy journalism masquerading as public service? It's not only obnoxious, it's lazy. All that the "journalist" (usually a J-school grad who couldn't get through science classes) has to do is select one of their pet causes, scour the police blotter or (better) glom onto some other like-minded reporter's work, and find supporting "evidence" with which to prepare a "story". It's easier than thinking, that's for sure. And it wins oodles of awards from other "journalists" who crave the adulation of their peers only a trifle more than the ability to successfully pilfer their work.