Perhaps it is time to stage a "Nurse-In" at this restaurant and let the
owner know how many patrons will discontinue dining there if their
breastfeeding children are discouraged from enjoying a meal as well.
Keep up the education and example setting!
Suzanne Franklin, RN, BSN, MSN
>>> [log in to unmask] 7/19/2004 11:23:44 AM >>>
I shall refrain from commenting as my language would certainly lead to
me being thrown off this list!
norma
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040713/NEWS08/407130356&SearchID=73177528804202
Nursing mom asked to leave
The restaurant's owner sponsored a wet T-shirt contest, but says
breastfeeding offends.
By MARK QUINER
REGISTER CORRESPONDENT
July 13, 2004
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West Branch, Ia. - A restaurant owner who held a wet T-shirt contest at
his
business this summer relegates women to the restroom who need to
breastfeed
their children.
"Their idea of what is appropriate is messed up," said Amy Schoon, who
earlier this month was asked by a manager of The Hoover House
Restaurant in
West Branch to nurse her 8-month-old son in the restroom, cover herself
more
or leave.
Schoon, who said she was properly covered, opted to leave the
restaurant.
"That's a foul thought - that somebody would be ordered to the bathroom
to
eat."
Schoon said she frequently nurses her son in public and has never been
asked
to leave a public place while she's feeding him. Iowa law permits women
to
breastfeed in public.
Carl Nelson, The Hoover House owner, defended the manager's actions,
saying
it's inappropriate for women to nurse their children in a restaurant.
"You could tell (customers) were offended," Nelson said.
He said The Hoover House doesn't prohibit women from breastfeeding in
the
restaurant but wants them well-covered.
Nelson said he sees nothing contradictory about discouraging
breastfeeding
in his restaurant, yet sponsoring wet T-shirt contests, in which
pitchers of
water are poured on women wearing skimpy or see-through T-shirts and
no
bras.
"It's a different atmosphere," Nelson said of the contests. He said
the
contests are appropriate because customers come specifically to watch
the
event while patrons dining in the restaurant were not expecting to see
a
woman nursing her child.
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