I'd like your thoughts on this before I write a letter.  I was at the
San Francisco Zoo last Sunday and saw the usual masses with bottles,
and the 6 week old baby with the bottle propped in the stroller,
crying.  :-(  All that made me sad, but one was even more frustrating.
 I was just leaving the bathroom, which was really cold, pretty
smelly, not very clean, ugly, and a woman walked in holding a sweet
little pink snowsuited 3 month old or so.  Mom looked disgusted, and I
thought she was wondering how to use the bathroom and hold the baby,
so I offered to hold her.  Mom said, Thanks, but I'm looking for a
place to feed her.  She proceeded to feed her in a stall, squatting on
the floor!  I told her that she is entitled to nurse in public, is a
mammal, and didn't have to hide, but it was really hard to
communticate through the closed door.   I saw some other mothers
nursing in a carousel shelter, and I of course, nursed who knows
where?

My thoughts are- what impact do you think it would have on people if
we could somehow get the Zoo to post a blanket endorsement of
breastfeeding?  Maybe with their maps, maybe a discussion in various
mammal houses.  Maybe just a few well placed "breastfeeding Welcome
Here" stickers like Motherwear puts out.  (I"ve had thoughts of just
getting a hundred and placing them myself.  :-)  )  I know these kind
of places have their bureacracies to wade through to get anything
done, so tips in conquering that might help.  Please, thoughts?
Please email me and the list.

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