In an age when "nursing" rooms come standard in St. Louis area shopping malls and are considered an employee benefit in progressive companies, it's a wonder that some folks still get stirred up at the sight of a woman breast-feeding in public.
But they do.
Not long ago, "The View" host Barbara Walters' comments on a nursing mother being indiscreet sparked a protest by breast-feeders outside ABC-TV's New York studios. A woman who appeared to be breast-feeding during a C-SPAN telecast in June was a topic for a chuckle on Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show" and subsequently grist for the blogosphere.
Julie Friedman, 40, of Clayton, recently recalled a few disapproving looks when she nursed her daughter. There was also the fifty-something woman sitting next to her in a Chesterfield restaurant who asked whether there was "someplace else" she could nurse.
"I was actually really shocked," Friedman said last week. "I told her, 'No, I'm sorry you don't like it.' "
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