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Nikki Lee <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 9 Jun 2005 16:27:34 EDT
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Dear Friends:
    The nurse-in outside ABC studios has made many  people think and talk. I 
agree with Merewyn and her comments about how crazy  things are here in the 
USA where breasts are used to sell everything, from  beer to toothpaste to cars. 
Jennifer Lopez appeared at some national awards  ceremony a few years ago in 
a sheer dress held together with sticky tape, and  that is fine. But if some 
mother nurtures her baby in public, people are  'uncomfortable' and equate 
caring for a baby with elimination of bodily wastes.  The US is truly unique in 
the world for its discomfort with the basic function  of breasts.
    A nurse that I have worked with called me last  week. She pumps at work 
in a major local hospital; she uses an expensive pump  that looks like a black 
pocketbook, and keeps it in the nurse's lounge. She has  been asked by other 
nurses to cover up that 'revolting' piece of equipment;  apparently just seeing 
the pump is enough to make some nurses 'uncomfortable'.  She asked me what to 
do. I suggested she call the lactation consultant at the  local health 
department for some organizational support; she has already spoken  to the head of 
human resources at the hospital.
    Meanwhile, has anyone noticed the latest trend to  squish breasts into 
low cut, tight bodices? So not only is their natural  function obscured, but so 
is their natural shape.
    warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct  Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human  Lactation
Support the WHO Code and the Mother-Friendly Childbirth  Initiative

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