I'm not sure I always buy into the role of bf women as victims. IMO, at some
point learning to advocate for yourself and your child (for the next two
decades) is essential. What on earth would this receptionist have done if
the mom had just plunked herself down and nursed? What does her doc think of
all this. A nice 'thank you for being so rude to me" card with a copy a
summarization of the AAP bf policy (like the one that June Winfield and Pat
Bull put together a couple of years ago) with appropriate directions
highlighted might be more than due...and of course, a cc to the doc with an
explanation. If some of the situations that women experience while
breastfeeding in public were tackled with the same fervor as "bra burning"
just mere decades ago, we might reap a few benefits.

Lorri Centineo
Portland, Maine

> I was discriminated at the docs office yesterday the receptionist wouldn't
> let me bf Noah in the waiting room she made me go in the back room and
feed
> him then she wouldn't check me in until I was done bf him, by that time I
> was done feeding him I was late for my appointment. I got there at 8:00am
> and didn't leave until 9:30am. I was very upset. When I was leaving the
> receptionist told me that to make things easier I should bring a bottle
next
> time. I told her he doesn't have a bottle he is strictly a BF baby no
> bottles!!!! She said women shouldn't breastfeed in public its just not
> right. I was so upset I cried all the way home. I met my dh at work for
> lunch and I told him about it and he said he's going to call the hospital
> and complain.

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