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eridani

(51,907 posts)
Sat Feb 7, 2015, 05:11 AM Feb 2015

I'm very sorry to say that this did not happen at an Olive Garden

Breast-Feeding Women Descend on Walmart After Store Shames Nursing Mom

http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/02/05/breastfeeding-women-descend-walmart-after-store-shames-nursing-mom?cmpid=tpdaily-eml-2015-02-05

Given the many health benefits of breast-feeding—and that most shoppers don’t want to hear an hungry infant screaming in aisle nine—you’d think stores would be more supportive of a woman’s effort to feed her baby. But perhaps a manager at a Walmart in Oklahoma likes crying children, or didn’t know that the state has a law protecting a woman’s right to nurse in public. Either way, he's probably regretting telling new mom Elizabeth Moreno to quit nursing her child and cover up.

“I was kind of shocked, like, do what? I didn’t know what I was doing wrong,” Moreno told Fox 23 on Tuesday.

Moreno left the store last week feeling humiliated by the manager’s request, but she didn’t hang her head for long. On Tuesday, she and about 20 other mothers and their infants descended on the store to hold a breast-feeding demonstration called a nurse-in.

A nurse-in is like an old-school sit-in, but with more breast-feeding. To protest the manager’s behavior, Moreno and the other moms walked around the Walmart in Glenpool, about 15 minutes south of Tulsa, with their babies. As you can see in the video below, some of the women chose to openly nurse their infants while they walked.

“We did get some looks and stuff. People were very curious,” one of the moms, Renee McBay, told the station.

Moreno said that the when the manager approached her last week, he said another customer had complained about her breast-feeding.
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I'm very sorry to say that this did not happen at an Olive Garden (Original Post) eridani Feb 2015 OP
No one wants to do a riff on Olive Garden on a Friday night? n/t eridani Feb 2015 #1
You need to tie in vaccinations somehow. krispos42 Feb 2015 #2
Don't leave out chain-smoking pitbulls.. IDemo Feb 2015 #3
Who recline their seats on airplanes Coventina Feb 2015 #4
eating cornflake-breaded fried drumsticks from circumsized factory-farmed chickens krispos42 Feb 2015 #5
While looking at the hairless vulva on the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Cover. n/t Dr Hobbitstein Feb 2015 #6
And... and... krispos42 Feb 2015 #7
And don't forget beans in chili. Brigid Feb 2015 #8

krispos42

(49,445 posts)
2. You need to tie in vaccinations somehow.
Sat Feb 7, 2015, 12:55 PM
Feb 2015

"Breastfeeding mom blames Wal-Mart manager for son's autism after he stops her".


Something like that...

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