Another listserve suggested I bring this up again, in response to the 6 year
old custody case.  Here's how I responded:

Ah, Birthday Nursing!  It's simple.  On the monthly anniversary of your
child's birth (the 12th, the 30th, the 4th, whatever), you *make a point* of
nursing somewhere in public.  When I first proposed this, my local LLL group
said, "But we already nurse in public all the time," but that's not entirely
true.  We may stall an older baby for just a few minutes, or go someplace a
little more discreet, or we travel in circles where nursing is taken for
granted - the food co-op, for instance.

What I'm suggesting is that you go someplace where nursing isn't normally
seen.  The aisle in the grocery store.  The bench in the men's shoe store.
The aisle seat in church.  The elevator.  One of those places you might
normally steer clear of just because it's a little less hassle to take a
moment to go elsewhere.

Once a month.  Not to make a scene, just to allow yourself to be seen a
little more easily than usual.  And because we all end up doing this on
different days, it's a quiet, *ongoing* little nurse-in...

Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC  Ithaca, NY
www.wiessinger.baka.com

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