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I have to agree with Cee and Anne. A couple of years ago, Kathleen Bruce described nurse-ins
(and forgive me if I have the wording or attribution wrong) as "negative-energy events."
While conventional wisdom seems to be that Victoria's Secret is harder on nursing moms than
other stores (I question this), I suspect that most of the staff at the targeted Victoria's Secret
stores are already in basic agreement with 98% of what the nurse-in participants think about
breastfeeding in public. And I think the points of contention that remain could probably be
resolved with much less drama than that of a nurse-in. In other words, I agree with Cee that a
nurse-in has great potential to alienate a lot of people who are already pretty cool with
breastfeeding (in public or elsewhere).
Women who have been harrassed for or prevented from breastfeeding in a public place (retail or
other) often feel humiliated and violated. Whenever this happens, it should be dealt with in a way
that makes it less likely to happen again. But in a society in which breastfeeding rates are slowly
climbing, in which several states have laws protecting women who breastfeed in public, in which
the company in question has written policies in support of breastfeeding, and in which most of us
go through our public nursing career experiencing little to no harrassment, it might be a mistake
to assume that a protest is needed to educate people. Cee's ideas for responding to this
challenge seem more appropriate to me.
Kerry Ose
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