IYesterday was our community festival. It's huge - over 200 booths lining
the center of three blocks of main street. My LLL group has traditionally
done a booth containing the medela mother/baby poster, the kiwanis poster
as the only images of bfing. We offer a shady (enviroshade), semi-private
(I made "sides" for our tent-like roof with juvenile sheets and posters)
rocking chair for nursing and a changing table.

Across most of the front is a table with our books which we sell. What I'm
trying to say is that unless you come into the booth and get close to the
nursing mom, you are NOT going to see anything of a breast!!! So, it's not
that mothers are exposing themselves and no one has ever made a comment
about that end of it and we've done this booth for 8 years.

Last evening while speaking to a mom, she related how a mutual friend (a
grandmom) said she came by the LLL booth and was disgusted. I cannot quote
directly, but basically she said that the baby she saw nursing was "way too
old" to be doing that.

I remember when this woman stopped by and I'm pretty sure that a 3 month
old baby was the one nursing at that time. And, Ladies and gentlemen, the
oldest baby nursed in that booth was.....7 months of age! The only other
infant who nursed in our booth yesterday was a one month old.

Sad, sad, sad.

Margaret Ann

Margaret Ann Paxton, LLLL, CCE
Lexington, VA

My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink (cow's) milk,
a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.
 - W.C. Fields