Covered w/o permission at Salvation Army

That's amazing! I wonder what the uproar would be if one of us lactivists walked up to a FF by choice & threw a large tee shirt over them?

Where & when did this happen? Did you get a response to your letters?

Sus

I am appauled! I don't even know what to seay since most of the words that I want to say are profanities.

I feel blessed that the only comment I have ever received about NIP was someone telling me not to cover the baby up when it's so hot out. My heart goes out to all you Mamas who have been made to feel uncomfortable or discriminated against.

so sorry you had to deal with this, mama.

i've come to realize, especially now being a mother, that women's and children's rights are constantly being violated here in the good old U-S of A.

we have the right to bear arms but we are made to feel like criminals for nourishing and nurturing our babies. makes me sick.

lactivists, unite! we are all revolutionaries every time we nurse our dear children outside of our homes. i wish it wasn't so, but this is the state of affairs, and i'm going to do my part to break down these sexist, discriminatory beliefs.

So this was a Salvation Army thrift store?

They also have churches and I'd be REALLY surprised if this happened at the church...but anything is possible. They are a very good organization that feed a lot of hungry people, etc. They helped me so much when I was a child. I went to their church as a kid and I saw how they were very supportive of mother's in particular. I think the leaders of the organization would be very interested to know this happened to you and would take action. They hire people from the community to work the thrift stores...so who knows what any given person feels about children, families, etc. I'm so sorry you had this negative experience. You were totally fine to nurse your child without covering up!! The individual who covered you was unenlightened to say the least.

That is incredibly rude not to mention illegal if you have bf legislation in your state. I am glad to hear you have made the organization aware of the problem, and I'm very interested in hearing the response too!

wow...how absolutely terrible. I'm so sorry that happened to you.

Good for you standing up for yourself tho and not just sitting there!

All I gotta say (don't flame me anyone!) is sometimes people who work in those places are a little weird! I was at the Goodwill Super Store about a month ago with DD sitting facing forward in a New Native Pouch. She was all bundled in like a little kangaroo and some lady who worked there came up and started talking at her, and then without a word to me actually reached INTO the pouch without permission and started grabbing DD and taking her out!!! I kinda stepped back and turned away so she couldn't get her out, and THEN she asked if she could hold her! I was taken aback that someone would just do something like that.

Didn't mean to hijack your thread, just wanted to say I can totally imagine weird things happenning at the thrift store! I'm glad you're writing and taking it higher up.

My letters will be going out today. This happened in Grand Junction, Colorado, which is a back-asswards hick town (IMO). I used to live there (not by choice!), and thankfully we were able to move last fall. DH still has to work there a couple of days each week, and I go with him sometimes.

Lisser

Even if there are not laws clarifying the basic right to feed your baby wherever you have a legal right to be, I think that what that lady did could amount to a form of assault. She touched you and your baby without permission. Unwelcome touch is unwelcome touch.