In the last few weeks nursing in public has been shoved into the spotlight. Nurse-ins have been happening all over the world to draw attention to laws and ordinances that give mothers the right to feed their babies in any place, public or private.
In the last 3 weeks their have been nurse-ins held at Hollister stores around the world after Brittany Warfield was yelled at my a local Hollisters manager to leave the store simply because she was feeding her child. This sparked outrage and women around the world immediately planned a nurse-in. Hollister has yet to make any apology. And then that very same day of the nurse-in Jessica from The Leaky B@@b was enjoying lunch in a Cafe at The Pink Flamingo hotel when a waitress asked her to either cover or leave. Jessica proceeded to laugh and inform the lady of her rights (those rights can be found here). The difference here though is that the manager of the cafe promptly apologized to Jessica, both publically and privately. And finally just today a nurse-in was held out side a TV station in Australia after one of the reporters made a comment that women should be "classy" and "discreet" when breastfeeding in public on Friday in response to the outrage of a women feeding her child by the side of a public pool.
But now these nurse-ins are going virtual and tomorrow Tuesday, January 22, 2013 Birth Without Fear is holding a photo-in on Facebook. This is in response to Facebook removing this image:
from their page and one others and then banning them from the social networking website for 24 hours. By doing this Facebook went back on their policy that pictures of mothers breastfeeding their children was allowed.
So tomorrow to show Facebook that nursing mothers will not be stopped from showing the world their beautiful, natural pictures there will be a photo-in. Everyone who is or has nursed is asked to change their profile picture to one of them feeding or use 1 or the 3 Birth Without Fear has posted on their facebook page. But if your not a nursing mother and you still want to show support you may again use one of the above mentioned pictures of find one by yourself.
I encourage all of you to particiapate. Breastfeeding is a natural thing and we as women have the right to do it anywhere and at anytime.
Why are pictures like these:
acceptable in today's society but a mother feeding her child (whether it be in public or in a picture) not?
That just baffles me.
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