Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Breastfeeding incident raises ire (The Daily Advertiser)

Laws protect breastfeeding mothers.

When 7-month-old Kaden is hungry, he lets his mother, Nicole Guillory, know. Kaden, who is breastfed, goes lots of places with his mother, and when they are away from home, she prefers to discretely breastfeed him.
But an incident during the weekend left Guillory so shocked, she couldn't finish feeding Kaden.


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"I've never had anything like that happen before," said Guillory, a mother of three, who lives in Pine Prairie.

Guillory said she was told she couldn't breastfeed Kaden while she was at The Great Escape Water Massages inside the Mall of Acadiana on Saturday.
The store owner, Diane Harvey, who was not present when the incident occurred, said Guillory wasn't asked to stop breastfeeding, but to cover up while she did. Guillory said she was covered.

Stories of misunderstandings and ignorance of a woman's right to breastfeed in public are pretty rare here - but only because many women do not choose to breastfeed, said Melissa Principato, a local leader of La Leche League International, a breastfeeding education group.

"We have so few breastfeeding people in Louisiana, it's not very common," Principato said.


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