Thursday, July 14, 2005

'Nurse-in' staged to protest column

Eileen Eckert sat down on a grassy hill outside the Poughkeepsie Journal Wednesday, lifted her shirt and fed her 6-week-old daughter Quinn.

She was one of several moms who breast-fed their children as roughly 50 adults and dozens of children staged a "nurse in" to support public breast-feeding.

"I do really feel like people shouldn't be embarrassed to do it," the Town of Poughkeepsie mother of two said. "If a baby's got to eat, you shouldn't feel excluded, or feel you should have to retreat to the car or a bathroom, or feel like it's disgusting."

The nurse in, part of a growing movement to support public breast-feeding, was staged in part as a response to Journal columnist and Rhinecliff attorney Jonna Spilbor.



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