A breastfeeding mom in Georgia is furious at chain restaurant Applebee's after she says a manager told her that she could either stop feeding her 20-month-old son or she could go into the bathroom to do so. The altercation became ugly and both sides called the police.
In fact, Dawn Holland was in the right. Georgia has laws which allow mothers to nurse anywhere, so the officer who responded to the call didn't even file an incident report. Good on him. But bad, bad, bad on the manager. Seriously, what is the problem with a nursing mom needing to feed her child? And why on Earth do people still think breastfeeding in the bathroom is normal?
One of the first rules of living in the animal kingdom is don't poop where you eat. Duh.
These stories just get more and more ridiculous. It's just a BOOB, people. Look away if it bothers you so much.
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A restaurant like Applebee's that bills itself as good for families ought to be better acquainted with the state breastfeeding laws. If a breast is really so offensive, then maybe the law would be different. Diners who don't want to see a baby eating could ask to be moved. Or THEY could take their meal in the bathroom? How about that?
Oh wait. No one would even consider asking an adult to eat in the restroom. So why should a baby?
I have been a nursing mom and I can say that sitting on a toilet in a lonely public restroom was depressing. Sitting at my table, under a nursing cover, holding my baby, and talking to my husband was a much more pleasant experience for everyone. Sure, I had a cover. But not all moms can use one. And that's OK, too.
Babies need to eat. And boobs are where they get their food. The next time you find yourself in a chain restaurant thinking about ways to hurt new mothers or offended by the suggestion that we are, indeed, mammals who suckle our young, I have an idea. Take your chicken quesadillas and go to the bathroom. Shut the stall door.
Now you can't see anyone!
Have you ever fed your baby in the bathroom?
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I would NEVER feed my baby in the bathroom. Luckily for me I never got any negative feed back from anyone while NIP because like this lady, I would have become so upset that the cops would have to be called in too. I actually got a lot of positive feed back from others.
Normally I'd agree that this is rediculous, but this is not a 2 month old baby we're talking about... The kid is almost 2. My daughter was not drinking out of a bottle at 20 months old, she was eating what ever I was eating. To each their own I guess, but if it were me; I'd have pumped and put it in a sippy cup. I dont believe that if a child is too old for a bottle, that they should still be drinking directly from the breast either... but that's just my opinion.
The fact of the matter is she was with in her legal rights to BF her son with in a public place. No matter what the childs age. So if you are sick of seeing, you need to turn your cheek. If you are so concerned about your child seeing it & asking questions (because I have heard that as being someones major concern), you better explain it to them.
I am so sick and tired of these women getting in trouble for nursing/pumping! Are the businesses asking to be sued??? It is a woman's right to nurse and I am not aware of every state's laws but in CA we are a pro-breastfeeding state and a business who threatened a woman in any way for nursing would be sued so fast their head would spin and the woman would win! There needs to be new laws in place that protect nursing moms from people like this and like that other story where the boss wouldn't allow the waitress to pump. There needs to be automatic repercussions for this just like hate crimes and sexua harassment.