Mom asked to go into changeroom to breastfeed !

http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=22b2e9cd-8375-441b-8efb-05ccd2e0a6e5

What this artice doesn't say is that the male employee who asked her to go into the change room actually walked up to her and unlatched the baby from her breast !I'll see if I can find the more detailed article. Thoughts ? Comments.


VANCOUVER -- Scores of breastfeeding mothers crowded into downtown Vancouver's H&M clothing store Thursday afternoon to protest the way another woman was treated when she tried to feed her baby in public.
At least 60 women sat cross-legged on the floor, milled about the store feeding their babies or spilled out into Pacific Centre mall in support of Manuela Valle, who was told by store staff on Tuesday to go into the changeroom to feed her two-month-old daughter Ramona. Others stood outside the storefront on Granville Street, carrying signs that read: "Get a room? Human rights mockery" and "Babies for Breastfeeding"

"This is normal; it's not shameful. It is everyone's need to to have food and be nourished and nurtured," mom Veronika Pollanska told the crowd as she fed her five-month-old son. "This is for all businesses including airlines, clothing stores, pools and restaurants."
Siobhan Sestak, of Delta, said she came out to show her support because so many women are often treated the same way as Valle. Sestak said she was feeding her four-month-old son Declan in Liquidation World three weeks ago when she was told it was illegal for her to breastfeed while sitting on the store's furniture.
"She said 'nobody wants to buy furniture when they see you feeding on it so you have leave,'" Sestak said, adding her son was covered by a sheet. "It made me feel bad to be ganged up on like that. It's something you can't help; when you're out and about you have to feed your baby."
Many mothers said it was shocking that companies can put up ads portraying near-naked women yet moms are villified for breast-feeding in public. "You kind of have to wonder what's going on in our culture when a company can put up a billboard with a teenager scantily clad but a mother feeding her baby is offending someone," said Mel Carson, who was feeding her six-month-old son Carson Lee. "I can't wrap my head around that."
Laura Shankland, a spokeswoman for H&M in Toronto, said the store has a policy that allows women to breastfeed freely in public. The incident, she said, has prompted the store to start an education campaign to ensure its staff is aware of the policy and such problems don't arise again.
"We're very sorry for that occurrence and we're investigating it," she said. "We're very sorry that a woman in our store was made to feel unwelcome and uncomfortable."

Sorry for my language, but... Umm I would kill that fucker if her came and unlatched my baby. I hope she sues haha.

i woulda opened up my can of whoopass

wow..however i only use change rooms to change my baby and i think that is the socially acceptable thing to do when you are shopping.

 

What is wrong with people?

I would have not said anything and waited for him to start lunch and pulled what ever it was he was eating out of this mouth and told him to go eat in a dressing room.

people are so ignorant now adays. What is so wrong with feeding your baby? It isn't wrong it isn't shameful. It makes me sick that someone would have the balls to go to a women and actually unlatch a baby from her breast.

Our society definitley has some paradox's that it needs to work on.. I think anyone trying to stop a mother from breastfeeding due to the notion that it's "indecent" is a perv themselves..

This reminds me of a time when I was taking my kids in to the pedi to get checked out for a cold.. Another mother came in, sat down and started to breastfeed.. The receptionist (a dude) pointed to the nursing room they have off to the side but she quite cooly told him, "No. I'm fine right here".

I couldn't believe that even in a pediatrician's office ppl could have their heads up their asses like that!

Quoting HautéMama Hatin'OnBeezies:“ Our society definitley has some paradox's that it needs to work on.. I think anyone trying to stop a ... [snip!] ... fine right here". I couldn't believe that even in a pediatrician's office ppl could have their heads up their asses like that!”

Unbelieveable !

I've been asked to stop twice - once in a mall while sitting on a bench with baby covered slightly with a blanket , once while sitting IN MY CAR waiting outside a restaurant for my husband to get our takeout food .

The first time it was an elderly woman - she actually said you should do that in a washroom - I replied - Ok you go and eat your donut and coffe there in the bathroom and I'll join you   She huffed and walked away .

The second time it was a 45(ish) year old man - told me I was making him uncomfortable (I was in my own car) I told him to fuck right off.

I would not have moved. I would probably have started to say some not-so-nice things. (Butprobably not with a baby in tow.)

That is ridiculous.
BG needs to like, campaign shit and start a naked woman breastfeeding clothing line.
(IRONY?)
lol.

Quoting HautéMama Hatin'OnBeezies:“ Our society definitley has some paradox's that it needs to work on.. I think anyone trying to stop a ... [snip!] ... fine right here". I couldn't believe that even in a pediatrician's office ppl could have their heads up their asses like that!”

i think people have to be councious of the fact that it makes some people uncomfortable..i dont understand that if there was a nursing room for that purpose why she wouldnt use it...it seems alittle ignorant..

Quoting Sara12345:“ i think people have to be councious of the fact that it makes some people uncomfortable..i dont understand ... [snip!] ... dont understand that if there was a nursing room for that purpose why she wouldnt use it...it seems alittle ignorant..”

I don't see why she have to use it... it's there for them if they want to use it. Some women aren't that comfortable breastfeeding all out in the open, while som are. I think the room is there for the mommies that don't want to be all out there and if she felt more comfortable sitting right there and doing it more power to her. She shouldn't be forced into using the room just because it is there.

Quoting I got my sunshine!:“ I don't see why she have to use it... it's there for them if they want to use it. Some women aren't ... [snip!] ... sitting right there and doing it more power to her. She shouldn't be forced into using the room just because it is there.”

agreed!

Wow, thats horrible, I can't imagine someone coming over and doing that to me or my baby, i woulda sent my husband over to beat his ass! I don't see what the big deal is...if people are uncomfortable....don't look!!!

Quoting I got my sunshine!:“ I don't see why she have to use it... it's there for them if they want to use it. Some women aren't ... [snip!] ... sitting right there and doing it more power to her. She shouldn't be forced into using the room just because it is there.”

Double Agreed

Quoting NonsenseMom:“ Unbelieveable ! I've been asked to stop twice - once in a mall while sitting on a bench with baby covered ... [snip!] ... time it was a 45(ish) year old man - told me I was making him uncomfortable (I was in my own car) I told him to fuck right off.”

Noice!

I woulda told that pervy bastard that he was making ME feel uncomfortable.. I like how ppl act like they can't avert their eyes if they don't like seeing it.. Why do ppl act as is BF'ing Moms are sitting in their laps doing the thing?

As for the OP story, OMG I woulda gone Bruce Lee on anyone who tried to touch me or especially my baby.. People get broke that way, doesn't that effer know that?

This happened near me this weekend:

http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/Dozens+attend+breastfeeding+protest+outside+lingerie+store+in+Windsor/Canada/ContentPosting?isfa=1&newsitemid=135637046&feedname=CP-NATIONAL&show=False&number=0&showbyline=True&subtitle=&detect=&abc=abc&date=True

WINDSOR, Ont. - Local politicians joined some 50 people who held a protest in Windsor on Saturday over the right of women to breastfeed in public.



The group, which included breastfeeding moms, their husbands, children and friends, gathered at a La Senza lingerie store.
Among those on hand were Essex County MP Jeff Watson and the wife of Windsor Mayor Eddie Francis.
The protest was in support of a London, Ont., mother who says she was humiliated by La Senza staff who took exception to her breastfeeding her two-month-old-son at the Windsor store's checkout line in June.
Allison Loblaw said she was shocked when a clerk told her breastfeeding was not allowed in the store but she could use a changeroom in the back.
Dr. Michelle Prince, one of her supporters, said mothers have a "legal, morale and ethical right" to breastfeed in public. She added that there's nothing sexual about it.
"If you're looking at a breast in that manner you're watching too much television".
Ian Cross joined the protest with his wife and says he can't understand why staff at the lingerie store would object to public breastfeeding.
"It's kinda funny in a store that sells nursing bras".
A woman who identified herself only as Rebecca said she decided to join the protest after reading comments posted on a local website debating the incident. She says it's only natural to feed when her six-week-old daughter Ruby is hungry.
"It's like lifting coffee to my mouth. My baby's hungry so she eats. I'm thirsty so I drink."
A spokeswoman for La Senza said Loblaw was not asked to leave the store. Calls to the chain's Montreal head office went unanswered Saturday.
The Windsor protest came two days after a demonstration at an H&M store in Vancouver where a customer was told two weeks ago that she couldn't breastfeed in the store.
In Ontario, mothers who wish to breastfeed publicly are protected under the Ontario Human Rights Code. Loblaw has filed a complaint with the commission.

She was asked to stop... in a lingerie store?