Breast-feeding moms protest at Westfield mall (Post-Tribune )

HOBART — Sarah Fields nursed her 1-year-old son as Westfield Southlake shoppers streamed past.

A few glanced at her and seven other women who gathered Saturday afternoon outside the Victoria’s Secret store.

But if any passers-by noticed that some women were breast-feeding their children, they didn’t seem shocked.

That was one of the points the women participating in Saturday’s “nurse-in” wanted to make.

“You’re certainly going to see a lot less flesh from nursing mothers,” Cindy Lybolt, one of the organizers, said earlier, “than from some of the outfits some people are wearing.”

The women outside Victoria’s Secret had heard, through

e-mail message boards, that nursing mothers had been harassed recently at two Victoria’s Secret stores in Massachusetts and Wisconsin.

It seemed ironic that a company known for selling revealing lingerie would object to using a breast for nursing.



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