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Breast-feeding moms stage “nurse-in” at Target stores

December 29th, 2011 by | Permalink

 

Breast-feeding moms hold nurse-in to support woman who was "Targeted". Via Google Images

A Texas woman who claims she was harassed last month while breast-feeding her infant at a Target store in the Houston area received a huge show of support on Wednesday. In cities across the country, breast-feeding moms gathered for public “nurse-ins” to show their solidarity with the mom who feels she was unfairly “Targeted”. 

YouTube videos showing mothers nursing their babies in public locations, including a Target eatery, were posted by mothers in many locales around the country. 

The “flash mob” style nurse-ins were planned in 35 states in defense of Michelle Hickman, who said she had been breast-feeding her son at a Target store while Christmas shopping when Target employees made her feel uncomfortable.

Hickman told the Houston Chronicle on Wednesday, “I’ve gotten way more support than I imagined.” She participated in a nurse-in outside the Target store where she said she had been made to feel uncomfortable.

Hickman urged other mothers to join local nurse-ins, saying “This is something they can participate in from their own home, their own town. They don’t have to travel with a brand-new infant. They can go to the Target right up the road and support me.”

In a statement Target apparently sent to Houston’s KHOU-TV, they said that “guests who choose to breast-feed in public areas of the store are welcome to do so without being made to feel uncomfortable…Target has been in touch with the store to ensure all team members are aware of our breast-feeding policy.” 

Target spokeswoman Stacia Smith sent an email to the Times on Wednesday afternoon saying, “Guests who choose to breastfeed in public areas of the store are welcome to do so without being made to feel uncomfortable. Additionally, we support the use of fitting rooms for women who wish to breastfeed their babies, even if others are waiting to use the fitting rooms…We worked with this guest [Hickman] directly to address her concerns and are sorry any inconvenience it has caused.” 

Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com

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  • imagined

    She wasn’t made to leave. She wasn’t made to stop. What exactly is being ‘protested’ here? She said she was made to ‘feel uncomfortable’. So what? Plopped down in an aisle while breast-feeding her child may have caused others, employees included, to ‘feel uncomfortable’ as well. She needs to get over it just as others need to get over seeing a mom breast-feed in public as long as she is properly covered. This sounds like a planned lawsuit IMO. After all, who wouldn’t prefer the privacy and comfort of a dressing room as was offered to her? Keep up the fight nursing mom’s but please do it for situation’s where some sort of discrimination has actually occurred.

  • WHY

    I’ve said it many, many times, any mother who plans on going into a store or in public in general should PUMP BEFORE they head out, this is pure laziness. It makes me uncomfortable to see a woman setting in the middle of the floor where, in everyone’s view with their f’n tit popped out. If you choose to breast fed please consider others around you & cover yourself. If I can’t walk around with a tit hanging out, neither should you, give a damn whats attached to it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ren-Ripples/100001825034239 Ren Ripples

    The law protects the rights of mothers to breast feed however the law does not allow the breasts to be lewdly displayed, nor protect a women who is in the wrong, she sat in the middle of a crowded store blocking pathway’s , she probably also changed her child’s diaper at the restaurant’s table spreading fecal matter. disgusting breast milk can squirt when the breast is engorged or when the baby unlatches a blanket would prevent anyone from being sprayed with bodily fluids., no one wants to be squirted with breast milk.  and i personally would prosecute. People do not want to see her breast, just as she wants to breast feed so a compromise was made in the past, breast feed discreetly or modestly where in the law does it state anywhere that a woman can expose her breast for all to see, where in the law does it state anywhere that she can sit in a store blocking pathways. do realize she never sued as she knew she was in the wrong. some people should have been swallowed and others in that mind set should not be allowed to breed. uncultured , uncivil hyena’s 

 
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