On 19/04/2007, at 12:43, Chris Mulford wrote:

> Well, there at the RMH you have a lot of parents under stress, with  
> children
> that they want to protect, and there are probably lots of things  
> they wish
> their kids didn't have to see: other kids with scars or bandages or
> amputations or no hair or tubes sticking out of their noses. And  
> they have
> to explain all this to their kids and reassure them about these scary
> sights. The sight of a nursing toddler might just push somebody  
> over the
> edge of her or his stress quota for that day, and I think the  
> nursing moms
> should be sensitive to that reality.

I couldn't disagree with this more, and I believe that casting this  
in terms of the _mother_ being required to be more "civil and polite"  
is completely backwards. The people being uncivil and impolite are  
those complaining about nursing, and those breaking the law by  
attempting to place conditions and restrictions on it.

A nursing child is an oasis of beautiful, nurturing, NORMAL parenting  
within this stressful, abnormal environment. None of the parents of  
children with scary looking medical issues is being required to  
trumpet a warning of their presence, nor to cover the child up when  
he or she appears in the communal area. The child being discriminated  
against illegally is scared, frightened, and ill. Who is caring for  
his needs?

Lara Hopkins

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