Today's nurse-in: How did it go??????? - Page 8

[gret the great]

I was with Joanna in Holyoke. No mess was left behind.

[Beccah+twins+1]

annakiss - love the pictures, especially the chalk! The one of you nursing your child in the hotsling is just gorgeous. I love nursing pics (oh and I have been wanting that reversible flashback hotsling for months! you look great wearing it!)

[Pinky Tuscadero]

Originally Posted by lotusdebi

My son has weaned, so we just showed up as emotional support. We were really early, and no one was there, so we went to the food court for a bite to eat. We were delayed (messy preschooler issues), and when we came back, it was about 1:10, and we didn't see anyone. We did walk around the store. I was wearing my "Breast Milk Is Brain Food" shirt. And we hung out outside of the store for a bit. But, no one came. I don't know if we missed them entirely, or no one showed up at my local VS. But, I had to leave to pick up a friend.

Deb,
We were there! Lance was sound asleep in the sling so we didn't get to nurse but we walked around and I chatted with one salesgirl about babies. Kind of sad, huh? I'm surprised that no one in our area wanted to participate. I wish we had an advocacy type group, instead of just LLL. It would be great to get together a bunch of moms to actively work at making bf more normal in our area. LLL just doesn't do that kind of thing-it's not their goal.
Oh, I also talked with a mom of a toddler about slings. Maybe slings are easier for people to ask about because they don't involve nudity.

Suzy

[kerikadi]

Houston Galleria

It was so nice to meet a few of the Mamas on here in person
Such a lovely group of Mamas with beautiful nurslings and children

As Beth said we had about 15+ Mamas but a few of us had more than one kiddo there and there were a couple of DHs so I think we looked like an impressive crowd

I feel that a great deal was a accomplished this week. VS was obviously made aware of the discrimination to have sent out a poster to all of their stores and make employees aware of how to treat nursing Mamas That is the best thing that can come of all of this Not how many Mamas showed but that it seems they are making their employees aware that WE have RIGHTS I would definitely say mission accomplished!!!

Keri

[beansricerevolt]

Originally Posted by vsmom2two

I don't really see this as being very respectful.
I work at VS, and was working today for the nurse-in.
I DID nurse my two sons, but would never have made a mess and left it behind. ESPECIALLY if trying to make a point about BFing being nice, naturaL, ETC. Why would anyone go into a place of business, make any kind of mess (whether it be food, which this WAS, or anything else), and not clean it up? And then post with a "LOL" after it?

I cleaned up after some of these feeding mamas, and while I fully support breastfeeing, natural parenting, all that; I can't say it's acceptable to brag about making a mess of any kind for someone to clean up after.

I came to this board to fully understand the issues surrounding the nurse-in, only to find this. Can't approve as I may have, sorry. Very disapointed, in at least a couple of your views. Which this whole nurse-in is about. One person handled something immaturely (A VS employee), and people scream about it. Well group of people going in, making ANY sort of mess, laughing about it (and others joining in), are close enough.

good job, lost respect for at least some of the people participating.

Welcome to the boards. Hope you find it a great place to be

Working in retail can be hard, and yes, sometimes messy. When I did work in retail, I can't tell you how many messy people I picked up after. A little spilled milk would have been cake compared to what I have cleaned up.

[Amys1st]

Originally Posted by hip_mama

Working in retail can be hard, and yes, sometimes messy. When I did work in retail, I can't tell you how many messy people I picked up after. A little spilled milk would have been cake compared to what I have cleaned up.

Yes welcome!
and as a former retail manager I too can attest to the things cleaned up. I would have welcomed cleaning up a bit of breastmilk compared to coffee spilled, fruit drink smoothies that stain, formula bottles that get tossed out of strollers and spilled (stains big time!) and of course my favorite of all prizes that was left in the fitting room in a nice pile left to clean up on New years day. Not going to mention what it is!

I think the mamas who spilled their breastmilk meant it in a joking fashion and did not mean to litter or anything. Besides it sound like about a 10th of a teaspoon was left. I;m sure the starbucks coffee got more traffic on your tiles than the breastmilk did yesterday on a busy holiday weekend retail day.
I hope you find a home here at mdc but judging from your posts number, you joined this week when you heard we were planning a nurse in to check it out. Stick around and you will find we arent that bad at all:

[Momtwice]

vsmom2two, welcome to MDC.

Another retail veteran here!

It is not true that only one VS employee was immature. This national nurse in happened because of repeated problems in different stores in the USA.

[wonderwahine]

and some vs employees were immature at the nurse in by spraying the moms with purfume..........so there is still some issues going on that needs to be dealt with with vs employees

[lotusdebi]

Originally Posted by Pinky Tuscadero

Deb,
We were there! Lance was sound asleep in the sling so we didn't get to nurse but we walked around and I chatted with one salesgirl about babies. Kind of sad, huh? I'm surprised that no one in our area wanted to participate. I wish we had an advocacy type group, instead of just LLL. It would be great to get together a bunch of moms to actively work at making bf more normal in our area. LLL just doesn't do that kind of thing-it's not their goal.
Oh, I also talked with a mom of a toddler about slings. Maybe slings are easier for people to ask about because they don't involve nudity.

Suzy

I'm sorry I missed you! And that no one else showed up at that location.

[ibbit]

Grand Rapids, MI

I was the only one here, that I know of. I went into the store and looked and an employee asked if they could help and I said I was in need of a new bra and they asked if I needed to be measured and I told them yes b/c I'm bf and haven't been measured for my new size (said it loud enough others heard me). Then I tried on some bras, right on cue Christine got fussy, so I asked to use a dressing room (again loudly enough others heard me), they were very gracious about it. After they let me in a dressing room, my dh overheard the employee that had let me in tell her co-worker that she guessed the protest wasn't going to happen. They didn't realize I was part of the protest, I guess they expect 50 moms to show up and sit in the middle of the store with signs, singing and no shirts on :P I then looked at sports bras, b/c I actually do need one, and told the lady that I needed one that wouldn't constrict so much that I'd get a plugged duct.

I did end up buying one bra that I absolutely loved and when I checked out I made a point of telling them that it was great that they accomadated me as a nursing mom.

[sunshinestarr]

I just wanted to chime in and say that I agree with vsmom2two! I don't think it's nice to leave a mess behind when you're trying to make a statement.
I still think that this whole nurse-in project is AWESOME and I'm so proud of all of you mamas who did this!! !!!! If I had a lil one to nurse and a VS close to me I would have totally been there with all of you ladies!!!

ETA I have also worked in retail..

Originally Posted by vsmom2two

I don't really see this as being very respectful.
I work at VS, and was working today for the nurse-in.
I DID nurse my two sons, but would never have made a mess and left it behind. ESPECIALLY if trying to make a point about BFing being nice, naturaL, ETC. Why would anyone go into a place of business, make any kind of mess (whether it be food, which this WAS, or anything else), and not clean it up? And then post with a "LOL" after it?

I cleaned up after some of these feeding mamas, and while I fully support breastfeeing, natural parenting, all that; I can't say it's acceptable to brag about making a mess of any kind for someone to clean up after.

I came to this board to fully understand the issues surrounding the nurse-in, only to find this. Can't approve as I may have, sorry. Very disapointed, in at least a couple of your views. Which this whole nurse-in is about. One person handled something immaturely (A VS employee), and people scream about it. Well group of people going in, making ANY sort of mess, laughing about it (and others joining in), are close enough.

good job, lost respect for at least some of the people participating.

[Joannarachel]

Originally Posted by vsmom2two

I don't really see this as being very respectful.
I work at VS, and was working today for the nurse-in.
I DID nurse my two sons, but would never have made a mess and left it behind. ESPECIALLY if trying to make a point about BFing being nice, naturaL, ETC. Why would anyone go into a place of business, make any kind of mess (whether it be food, which this WAS, or anything else), and not clean it up? And then post with a "LOL" after it?

I cleaned up after some of these feeding mamas, and while I fully support breastfeeing, natural parenting, all that; I can't say it's acceptable to brag about making a mess of any kind for someone to clean up after.

I came to this board to fully understand the issues surrounding the nurse-in, only to find this. Can't approve as I may have, sorry. Very disapointed, in at least a couple of your views. Which this whole nurse-in is about. One person handled something immaturely (A VS employee), and people scream about it. Well group of people going in, making ANY sort of mess, laughing about it (and others joining in), are close enough.

good job, lost respect for at least some of the people participating.

Oh, give me a break. Do we have an eye-roll smiley?

OBVIOUSLY I was joking. One baby did spit up, and my daughter did unlatch, but it's not like that horrible breastmilk was left anywhere.

Um, I cleaned it up. So did the other mother.

Excuse me, I need to go roll my eyes now a little more.

Sorry for my sarcastic attitude, but YOU have offended ME.

[sunshinestarr]

Right on, I just want to apologize too for thinking that there was some huge mess left behind. I didn't realize you were joking.
You ladies are my heroines!! :::

Originally Posted by Joannarachel

Oh, give me a break. Do we have an eye-roll smiley?

OBVIOUSLY I was joking. One baby did spit up, and my daughter did unlatch, but it's not like that horrible breastmilk was left anywhere.

Um, I cleaned it up. So did the other mother.

Excuse me, I need to go roll my eyes now a little more.

Sorry for my sarcastic attitude, but YOU have offended ME.

[wryknowlicious]

HELOOO HEATHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
glad to "see" you over here!!

Originally Posted by ibbit

I was the only one here, that I know of. I went into the store and looked and an employee asked if they could help and I said I was in need of a new bra and they asked if I needed to be measured and I told them yes b/c I'm bf and haven't been measured for my new size (said it loud enough others heard me). Then I tried on some bras, right on cue Christine got fussy, so I asked to use a dressing room (again loudly enough others heard me), they were very gracious about it. After they let me in a dressing room, my dh overheard the employee that had let me in tell her co-worker that she guessed the protest wasn't going to happen. They didn't realize I was part of the protest, I guess they expect 50 moms to show up and sit in the middle of the store with signs, singing and no shirts on :P I then looked at sports bras, b/c I actually do need one, and told the lady that I needed one that wouldn't constrict so much that I'd get a plugged duct.

I did end up buying one bra that I absolutely loved and when I checked out I made a point of telling them that it was great that they accomadated me as a nursing mom.

[mamafeedbags]

Originally Posted by firstkid4me

I don't even know how many mamas came to Regency, I think about 10, and a lactation consultant from a hospital in town came to show her support. 2 news stations came by and a newspaper, but the news stations didn't stop and talk with me. I called one of them to see what their angle was going to be, and they said they talked to the person who organized the nurse-in, so I'm curious who they talked to

it was great meeting you! i think that we had a good turn out and it was fun! did anyone else catch the news story last night? i saw the 10pm report on channel 58 (almost fell off my chair when they did a close up of my ds..hee hee). was it on any other channels? i am hoping that i can get some copies of the pics that you took, i want to add a page in ds scrapbook documenting our first nurse-in

[Joannarachel]

Originally Posted by sunshinestarr

Right on, I just want to apologize too for thinking that there was some huge mess left behind. I didn't realize you were joking.
You ladies are my heroines!! :::

n/p

[jmom713]

Mesa AZ superstition springs mall

So, i'm a bit late with the check-in. We had 4 nursing moms (3 MDC and my friend). Also one DH and a couple of older children in addition to the nurslings. We used the chair arrangement set up out front of the store and were there for over an hour chatting and nursing. My friend's baby is tongue tied and getting baby latched can be challenging. She actually prefers to nurse with some privacy and went in to use the chairs outside the VS dressing rooms. She was approached several times by attendants asking if she wanted a dressing room. She let them know that she was fine where she was (dressing rooms were busy/full). To my knowledge none of us got any comments by shoppers/attendants; nor were we approached by security.

good job Moms!

Jen

[kimya]

Me and DH (still pregnant with #1) dragged my big belly to U Village in Seattle to show our support. We knew at least our student midwife, Nadine, would be there with her kids but we didn't know what to expect. We arrived around 1:30 and there were lots of mamas and babies and kids and some papas AND T.V. CAMERAS! There is a little fountain right outside the store and a lot of the older kids were playing in the water. It was really nice. A couple of my friends showed up a little later, as things were winding down and nursed their babies (before I went and got peppermint lotion from aveda for my huge swollen feet). There were so many good t-shirts and handouts! It was great. It feels good to know that I am having my baby in this community of awesome moms.

Last night I saw the local story covered on 3 major stations and it was all good! My favorite part was when it showed Isodora in front of one of the huge window posters of a lady in her bra and panties and she said something to the effect of "that woman is showing more boob than any of the ladies out here" and then it panned to a group of mamas discreetly nursing!

I missed the news on the other 2 stations that were there. FOX was there. I am curious about how they portrayed it.

Good job everyone everywhere! And hooray to all you brave mama's who protested alone! You are amazing!

[Tera]

Mom asked to leave AppleBees in Louisiana

http://www.ksla.com/Global/story.asp?S=5082113&nav=0RY5

[IntuitiveJamie]

Hi everyone. I'm coming to you from Jackson MS where three of us (and then later a fourth supporter) showed up to nurse. I felt like we didn't really accomplish anything but now that I have found out that many places only had a few ppl show up I realize that's better than nothing and overall we have made a difference! So the three of us ladies had our babies in slings and didn't get a whole lot of nursing done. I tried but my son was sooo distracted. But I kept him on the boob and walked the whole store as long as I could. No one seemed bothered by us,one employee smiled and asked how I was doing. That was nice. And that was about it. I wish I had thought to say something to the employees about it or hand them fliers I just wasn't that smart!
Well anyways, I met a couple of nice bfing slinging mommas and enjoyed just being a part of it all. Thanks to those that organized this! And great job to all you Mommas whom participated in any way!