Building a bond: Nursing moms want a place to breast-feed infants, acceptance by community (Altoona Mirror)

When debates ensue, there are usually two sides, both with the notion they are right. But for Michelle Baughman, there can also be com-

promise.

The 33-year-old Tyrone mother of four has breast-fed her children in public. She doesn’t have to think hard to recall the stares of people and even the comments. Some believe mothers should breast-feed only at home or out of the public’s gaze.

Baughman isn’t one of them. While she is an advocate for breast-feeding in public, she is also trying to appease those who don’t want to see public breast-feeding by working toward creating legislation that not only would support a woman’s choice to breast-feed in public, but would also require public places to have some sort of separate area for mothers to breast-feed away from the public.


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