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The dialogue created by controversies around nursing in public has raised the issue that because nursing in public is relatively uncommon, when it is done, it is considered unusual by many. Some people say it makes them uncomfortable. Mothers who nurse in public are stared at, harassed, or asked to cover up or nurse in the bathroom. We must make a cultural change in the acceptance of public breastfeeding. Some work must be done at a policy level, but works also must be done to begin to change attitudes and increase the level of acceptance of breastfeeding in public. One way to do this is to do it! Breastfeed in public! We advocate nursing in public to make it more acceptable and to make it the norm, not to make people uncomfortable or to push our views about breastfeeding on others. An empowering story from the Austin nurse-in highlights this point. On the day that 30 women went to Starbucks for the nurse-in, another new mother also went to that same Starbucks with her friend and sat in a corner. At some point she nursed her infant and later spoke with some of the mothers at the nurse-in. She told them that this was her first social trip out of her home with her new baby - coffee with a friend. She had been nervous about what she would do when her baby got hungry. She was worried she would encounter trouble if she nursed her baby in public and so she decided she would hide in the corner and hope no one noticed. When she arrived and looked around (not knowing it was a planned nurse-in) she saw lots of mothers nursing babies and decided it must be okay. So she nursed her baby, too. A nurse-in is usually a protest in response to a policy or an action of an employee. A nurse-out is an opportunity to get people together to nurse in a public place - to normalize and increase the common experience of breastfeeding. You can make a Nurse-in a big event or just get together with a few mothers and go somewhere public and feed those babies. 1.) Decide on a location. 2.) You can download the sample flyer and the postcards to use at your nurse-in. Adapt them for your local needs. 3.) Do you want to make stickers or placards? Here's some slogan from the Starbucks campaign. You can adapt them for the local issue: a.) Can you drink that latte in the bathroom? I'm breastfeeding here.4.) Do you want to contact the press? Here are sample press releases. You can adapt it for your local area. |
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