here's a link to an article i've always gone by...i would love to know from 
someone more knowledgeable than i if it is innaccurate! <A HREF="http://www.parenting.com/parenting/article/article_general/0,8266,7500,00.html"> The Breastfeeding Bill 
of Rights*</A> 
(http://www.parenting.com/parenting/article/article_general/0,8266,7500,00.html)2. The 


Right to Breastfeed Wherever You Are

If you have a right to be somewhere with your baby, you have a right to 
breastfeed there.It's the law. Kerry Madden-Lunsford, a Los Angeles writer, was 
nursing 3-month-old Norah under a turtleneck and sweater in the children's 
section of a bookstore when a clerk told her, "You can't do that in here." Then a 
store manager suggested the rest room. "What was I supposed to do?" 
Madden-Lunsford says. "Leave my two older children alone? Or gather everyone and head to 
the toilet to nurse?" She chose to leave the store. "I just kept thinking how 
unfair it was. You just go through such humiliation."

What Madden-Lunsford didn't know at the time was this: "As a rule, if you 
have a right to be somewhere with your baby, you have a right to breastfeed," 
says Elizabeth Baldwin, a Florida attorney and La Leche League leader who is a 
national expert on breastfeeding and the law. According to Baldwin, the rule 
holds true whether or not your state has a law that protects a woman's right to 
breastfeed in public. (Almost half of states, including California, have passed 
such laws; to learn if yours has, check <A HREF="http://www.lalecheleague.org/LawBills.html">La Leche League Summary of 
Breastfeeding Legislation</A>.)

Baldwin says there are a few places, such as courtrooms, where babies aren't 
allowed, so obviously, women don't have a right to breastfeed there. But in 
the vast majority of public places — such as stores, restaurants, parks, and 
malls — women are legally allowed to breastfeed. While many moms prefer to nurse 
in a quiet corner, a turned-around chair, or under a blanket, they need not go 
to great efforts to hide what they're doing.

If someone asks you to leave a public place where you and your baby have a 
right to be, Baldwin says that you can take action on the spot, perhaps by 
asking, "Is it okay to give my baby a bottle?" If the answer is yes, the next 
logical question is, "Then it should be okay to breastfeed, right?" (One mom was 
more blunt. When asked to take her nursing child into the rest room, she zinged 
back: "Would you go to the bathroom to eat your lunch?")

    
    
    





"bobo, what are you doing to deedle?"
"pankin him butt, mumma"
"bobo, we don't spank in this house"
"ony pank him outside, mumma?"


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