Strangely, given the discussions over recent weeks, I appear to be 
involved in organising a group of breastfeeding children and their 
mothers at Parliament Square, next month. 

I had mentioned my friend Emily held one last year, and with the current 
madness over the proposed 'protection' for breastfeeding 
as-long-as-your-six-months-or-younger babies, the time was right for 
another picnic.  (It's illegal to protest or demonstrate outside 
Parliament - it's not illegal to picnic whist breastfeeding and hold a 
pre-approved placard.  As long as you hold it in a nice refined British 
manner and don't actually act like you're protesting or anything, just 
breastfeeding and stopping the kids running out into the manic 
traffic.)  Parliament breaks for Summer Recess the day after, and the 
MPs go home to their constituencies.  Therefore there are regional 
events being held up and down the country, at the same time as the 
London one. 

I have given full details on this blog, as the legal stuff is a bit 
torturous: 

http://one-of-those-women.blogspot.com/2008/06/protect-my-baby-protect-me.html

The slogan for this year's picnic is:  Protect My Baby, Protect Me.

We've also opened a virtual event on Facebook.  This means that anyone 
who cannot attend in the flesh can just 'click' accept invite and be 
there in spirit, on the day.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=21843662006   You need a facebook 
account, which is free.

I thought it would be worth signalling something.  Which is that the 
Scottish law is very very simple.  It states that it is illegal to try 
and stop a baby being fed milk, in any place the baby has a right to be 
be.  That's 'milk'.  It doesn't matter what the milk is.  So it's 
equally illegal to stop a baby being bottle fed 'milk' by the father, or 
breastmilk by the mother.  It's such an elegant device. It unites 
mothers, and does not divide them.  And it allow focus to remain on the 
issue - a hungry child requiring milk.  So we need the same protection 
(But we're not mentioning a time limit, Scotland has two years).

See you there, in one guise or another!  :-)

Please propagate the blog URL to all breastfeeding support groups.  
Thanks.  :-)

Morgan Gallagher

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