Aubrey Hammer says she respects women's right to breast-feed in public, but she needs more privacy to feed her 3-month-old son, Ethan, who -- when he's not sick -- loves to eat a lot.
"For me, it just didn't work well," Hammer said.
This month, The Associated Press reported a woman was asked to leave an Ogden store after customers complained she was breast-feeding.
Carol Olson, a breast-feeding coordinator for Utah County's Women, Infants and Children office, said incidents like that make her mad because they make young mothers leery of nursing in public. She works every month to help mothers and bring attention to breast-feeding issues, but is making a bigger push this month because August is National Breast-feeding Month.
"(Women) can breast-feed anywhere they want, anytime," she said. "Nobody has any right to kick them out or ask them to do anything."
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