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Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:03:44 +1000
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Chris Musser wrote that the Exec Director of RMH Houston justified the policy of requesting breastfeeding women to go tot their rooms, by stating:

"She told me this was because they had multicultural residents here and that they need to
protects all the residents from feeling uncomfortable."

This policy clearly doesn't realise that one of the reasons immigrants moving to a Western country do less breastfeeding than befroe, is that they don't see breastfeeding, and assume it is not done.  It's invisible.  Wanting to conform, they don't breastfeed.

Virginia
in Brisbane, Queensland

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