TOPEKA - Hutchinson resident Agatha Nickelson bounced her infant son on her lap Thursday as she listened to other mothers, a grandfather and nurses testify for a bill aiming to support mothers who breastfeed babies in public.
The bill, Nickelson hopes, could remedy situations like the one she and her son, Wyatt, faced last fall.
While shopping at the Hutchinson Mall, Nickelson said, she stopped in a restroom to change the baby's diaper. He was hungry, so she sat on a chair, covered herself and her son with a blanket, and started to nurse him.
A woman passing through stopped with a look of disgust, she said.
"She began telling me how offended she was and that in the state of Kansas it was illegal to breastfeed in public," Nickelson said.
The woman then threatened to call police to arrest her. The outburst spurred Nickelson to pack up and leave.
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