Mom Calls on Other Nursing Moms to Protect Right to Breastfeed in Public

Doubtful, this country will always hold to its unfortunate puritanical roots. Good luck to all the moms and babies! If I still had any milk left, I'd join! lol

I suspect that the training told them to offer the option which is fine in my book. In a store like target your options are quite limited for a comfy nursing spot. They don't generally have benches around and the older cafes have horrible chairs that are bolted to the table which makes for a squished baby if you try to nurse there. I know I nursed in the fitting room there a few times when my guy was nursing. I think it's great that they allow it considering some stores won't. Mind you, at those places I never had issue with grabbing something 'to try on' before hogging the room for twenty minutes to nurse in peace ;-)

Until we start understanding and respecting our bodies more, I highly doubt that much progress will be made.  Most of our medical professionals have no concept of the mechanisms of breastfeeding, so how can the average person? 

As far as Target goes, I can speak from experience when I say that it is damn near impossible to comfortably nurse in a Target changing room.  They have these stupid circular seats that have no back or arms, that are tiny and super uncomfortable. 

Screw nursing in peace. I am with child, and I've read up WELL on the breastfeeding laws in my state. By the time by baby girl pops out, I don't care where I am or how many people are around me, if my baby needs to nurse she can damn well do what she pleases. I think it is absolutely disgusting how they are 'shunning' breastfeeding in public. It appauls me to the point where I can't wait to have her just so I can breastfeed her EVERYWHERE they say I can't. (The laws in my state say that absolutely nothing can stop me from breastfeeding whereever I see fit except at my place of employment.) There are no laws here for place of employment, but everywhere else, TARGET, Courthouse, the street, I can feed my child whenever she is hungry.

Brandspanknew--use caution when nursing in the street....yes it's your right but not safe, at least move it to the sidewalk so you don't get hit by a car.

How are you sending your message this way? This is the typical/hormonal way women react to this. As a member of the LGBT community, I find it very annoying when gays try to prove a point by making out in front of a conservatives home...yeea you showed them! Uh huh, sure. While I do support a woman's right to nurse, I dont think this is the proper course of action, it just comes off as pushy and they'll think you're on some post partum binge and not give you the importance and respect you are looking for. I agree with Kerwolfe..first medical professionals need to get behind it. How can your typical Target worker know what to do with this situation? Have you thought about that?

I am having a hard time with the mom's story. Its the holidays and it is virtually impossible to find a quiet place in any store this time of the year. Is it possible that she was in a place where the staff had to take into consideration safety, such as sitting on shelving or on a display??? Or in the middle of an aisle where other people were trying to shop? I am not in any way saying she shouldn't breastfeed in public (I did it with 4 kids), but I am wondering where in the store this was taking place. Additionally, the Targets in our area don't have places to sit throughout the store. There is usually one or two benches near the doors and then a cafe, which is the other reason I am wondering where she was attempting to breastfeed.

I don't often see moms nursing in public around here, sadly -- mostly because there's no comfortable place!

When I used to work in an indoor playplace for children (we offered birthday parties and open play times) there were tons and tons of mothers with nursing babies. We had centrally located, comfortable couches where moms could sit to watch their children from, and they would often breastfeed their babies there. Nobody ever hassled them or gave them odd looks.

sheramom4 it doesn't matter where she was (I'm assuming she wasn't sitting on a shelf) you don't need to stand still to breastfeed. One can continue shopping while doing it. Point being, she has the right to feed her baby wherever she is.