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I can't believe this is still an issue. We have ne-kid women all over the place (TV, movies, clubs, etc.), but breast feed a kid in public and people get their panties in a bunch.
St. Paul Mom Told To Leave Restaurant. For Breastfeeding?
Wednesday April 7, 2010
Bethany Morton, a mom of two from St. Paul, says she was asked to leave the Old Country Buffet restaurant in Maplewood for breast feeding her baby on Easter Sunday. The restaurant says that the family was asked to leave after Morton's fiance, Joe Santos, became verbally aggressive towards the restaurant's staff.
Allegedly, a server asked Morton to cover up as she was breastfeeding her six-month-old son Dawson. She refused. The restaurant manager arrived, Santos defended his fiancee, and the family was given a refund and asked to leave. Morton acknowledges that Santos was loud, but denies the restaurant's claims that he was shouting and using profanity. A staff member called Maplewood police who arrived at the restaurant, spoke with the couple, but took no action.
Minnesota law protects a mother's right to breastfeed in any public or private location that she and her child are authorized to be. That includes when dining at a restaurant.
The story ran in the Star Tribune, on KARE 11 and the article in the Pioneer Press' online newspaper has received 700 comments, ranging from support to derision of Morton and her family, schoolboy humor, and those wondering what all the fuss is about.
The Chief operating officer of Buffet's, Inc., Old Country Buffet's parent company, called Morton to apologize on Monday. That hasn't appeased her. Morton's friends have started a Facebook group, Boycott Old Country Buffet (they don't like breastfeeding), which has over 1,100 supporters, and is planning a protest of nursing mothers at the restaurant on Monday lunchtime, unless Old Country Buffet apologizes publicly.
http://minneapolis.about.com/b/2010/04/07/st-paul-mom-told-to-leave-restaurant-for-breastfeeding.htm
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I like boobies.
that being said, maybe she was just whipping out the boobie, instead of using a blanket and being discreet. It's very easy to breastfeed without the entire restaurant seeing your knockers. Some women don't care. Most can quickly and quietly nurse and it's not a huge deal. I've seen some who just slap the titty in the kids mouth and are trashy about it - and her hubby screaming at the staff too? They sound trash, but thats just my take.
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"Minnesota law protects a mother's right to breastfeed in any public or private location that she and her child are authorized to be. That includes when dining at a restaurant."
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Personally they should use a blanket, BUT that is a persons choice. People are too caught up in stupid shit
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Personally they should use a blanket, BUT that is a persons choice. People are too caught up in stupid shit
Exactly.
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I'm always happy to see some breasts, I just wish the freaking baby wouldn't block my view! >:(
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Ontario passed a law about ten years ago stating that women are allowed to be topless in public. Still very rare to see boobs though. >:(
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There there... you poor thing... there's always the south of France. :D
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My wife uses a blanket. If anyone ever said anyting, I would wait for them to leave and beat the fucking shit out of them. Ok maybe or maybe not but I would at least chew their ass out so hard they crawl off crying.
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Thats cool Hugo, I doubt anyone would say anything. Again, its a moms perogative to cover up or not. I know I did.
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you have to be some serious tight ass to flip out over a mother breastfeeding. Maybe they're muslims or some shit.
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I mean I will admit I wouldn't care to see a woman whip out a nip, but not really why I'm eating but would I say anything or flip out FUCK NO. Babies don't have a time clock. I'd pump into a bottle when I was going out to eat (god knows that's when I was a fat tub of shit). The few times I didn't I did have a blanket. I remember not that long ago, my daughter and I were having lunch and she being the nosey female (yes woman are nosey at any age) goes mom why is she doing that, I said turn around and stop staring, she is feeding the baby, she goes ohhhhh thats gross...lol
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I mean I will admit I wouldn't care to see a woman whip out a nip, but not really why I'm eating but would I say anything or flip out FUCK NO. Babies don't have a time clock. I'd pump into a bottle when I was going out to eat (god knows that's when I was a fat tub of shit). The few times I didn't I did have a blanket. I remember not that long ago, my daughter and I were having lunch and she being the nosey female (yes woman are nosey at any age) goes mom why is she doing that, I said turn around and stop staring, she is feeding the baby, she goes ohhhhh thats gross...lol
Why would breastfeeding turn anyone's stomach? You say, "but not really (why)while? I'm eating" I can't imagine that would be something that would be gross? Everytime I've seen it, I didn't really think about it to much other than thinking how cool it was in a life kind a way. Something about seeing a mother feed her baby just reminds me that we're still creatures on this big planet with all the others. I know that sounds stupid but I'm just being honest. It seems so often like we're expected to be drones in a preplanned commercial world. Shit like this reminds me we're not. And ok, as I guy I don't mind seeing a chick whip out her tits :D
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I never said it was gross..my 5 year old did. I explained to her, what it was. She looked at me like I had 5 eyes. So low and behold when we got home, TLC was showing a baby story and woman giving birth. She goes babies come from there where peepee does. Im like oh god what did I do lol. She said mom you said the doctor cut you open, I said yea because you were to stubborn to come out and after 31 hours of labor I was to tired. It is a beautiful thing, no doubt about it, still dont care to see it though
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I never said it was gross..my 5 year old did. I explained to her, what it was. She looked at me like I had 5 eyes. So low and behold when we got home, TLC was showing a baby story and woman giving birth. She goes babies come from there where peepee does. Im like oh god what did I do lol. She said mom you said the doctor cut you open, I said yea because you were to stubborn to come out and after 31 hours of labor I was to tired. It is a beautiful thing, no doubt about it, still dont care to see it though
why would it be a problem while eating ??? That's the part of your statement that I highlighted, not the part where your 5 year old said it.
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why would it be a problem while eating ??? That's the part of your statement that I highlighted, not the part where your 5 year old said it.
I just dont wanna see it while im eating nothing more nothing less. Again that is just me. Nothing wrong with it per se, its a moms god giving duty. Best thing for the baby is breast milk.
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kinda implies there's something gross about it.
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kinda implies there's something gross about it.
Well thats perception. No not gross, the only boobs I wanna see or mine should I put no homo?
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Well thats perception. No not gross, the only boobs I wanna see or mine should I put no homo?
not attacking you or anything but they're just boobs. You don't have to look/stare if you don't want. You implied that it was only not ok for you when you were eating. Something about seeing them when you're eating strikes the no homo but in other areas it wouldn't? Just trying to get it?
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not attacking you or anything but they're just boobs. You don't have to look/stare if you don't want. You implied that it was only not ok for you when you were eating. Something about seeing them when you're eating strikes the no homo but in other areas it wouldn't? Just trying to get it?
It was a joke no homo part. Yes just boobs doesnt mean I wanna see them
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Why not just go to the bathroom?
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Why not just go to the bathroom?
True but unless they have a comfy couch or chair fuck that. I was fine with a blanket covering up and didn't seem to bother anyone..besides I was eating with the other hand
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Why not just go to the bathroom?
>:(
Why don't YOU go to the bathroom to eat your meal.
If you don't have a problem eating your meal in a room where people poop and excrete all sorts of noxious gasses, then I suppose you're free to suggest others do that, ..but don't be surprised when they want no part of it.
Babies have every right to eat anywhere else in public where other people have the right to eat, and if someone doesn't like it, ...they are always free to leave the room.
To me what's really gross is having to watch some fat disgusting greasy pig chomping down the food, quite frequently with their mouths open. Just having to see the mounds of flesh all over their bodies is enough to turn my stomache. If we don't have the right to tell people like that to leave the room because we don't want to see them feeding... we sure as heck don't have the right to tell a nursing mother to go feed her baby elsewhere, ...much less in a toilet.
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Fortunately for me when I eat I'm not exposing parts of my body that would get me arrested.
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Why not just go to the bathroom?
Because they don't (and shouldn't) have to breastfeed next to a toilet.
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So if a woman is going somewhere public, why not just prepare a bottle?
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So if a woman is going somewhere public, why not just prepare a bottle?
Because not every woman who breastfeeds uses a pump. It may not be practical.
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(http://www.scumdoctor.com/images/Is-Leaking-Breast-Milk-A-Sign-Of-Pregnancy.jpg)
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Because not every woman who breastfeeds uses a pump. It may not be practical.
Maybe I don't know a ton about breast feeding, but how could using a pump at home and having a bottle togo not be practical?
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Maybe I don't know a ton about breast feeding, but how could using a pump at home and having a bottle togo not be practical?
because a lot of the time the baby won't take a bottle and the mother HAS to feed straight from the breast. Sometimes it's the other way around, they don't want to feed from the breast after having the bottle, so some mothers don't want to give them the bottle so that there is no difficulty with breastfeeding. Some babies don't have an issue and will accept both. But it's not uncommon for a baby to reject the mother after a bottle is introduced. Yea, there's probably more issues than you're aware of.
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Some of these posts remind me of when the statues were covered up under Ashcroft at the justice department.
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Maybe I don't know a ton about breast feeding, but how could using a pump at home and having a bottle togo not be practical?
When you say "bottle" I assume you mean a bottle filled with breast milk, which would require a pump? Some women don't use pumps. Pumps take a lot of work, especially if you don't have the gi-normous one they use in the hospitals. It can take a while to express milk using a pump. And when they do use a pump it's for things like the night feedings, or sitters. That's assuming the baby will even take the bottle.
If by "bottle" you mean formula, some mothers don't use formula while breastfeeding.
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formula is evil.
Study says breastfeeding saves lives
http://www.reviewatlas.com/news/x1060306669/Study-says-breastfeeding-saves-lives
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Facebook furor as nursing mother paintings censored
http://www.parentcentral.ca/parent/babiespregnancy/babies/article/794323--facebook-furor-as-nursing-mother-paintings-censored
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Breastfed kids have higher IQs too.
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Lol, lots of crazy going on here. Bottle or go to the bathroom
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Lol, lots of crazy going on here. Bottle or go to the bathroom
Or whip out the boob and let the kid chow down, which the law allows the mom to do. :D
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Lol, lots of crazy going on here. Bottle or go to the bathroom
epic dodge of the info answering your post ::) I'll have to remember, "lots of crazy going on" for when I don't have shit for a reply.
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grab an umbrella,
I'm not getting what you find so offensive about a mother breast feeding?
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This may sound weird, but I have no desire to see a woman whip her titsmegeesack out and start letting some little baby start sucking from it. Heaven forbid she goes somewhere other than in front of me eating my steak.
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This may sound weird, but I have no desire to see a woman whip her titsmegeesack out and start letting some little baby start sucking from it. Heaven forbid she goes somewhere other than in front of me eating my steak.
I'm willing to bet most people would rather the mother feed her baby than listen to the baby scream. Oh yea titsmegeesack? homo alert :D Are you one of those fellas that sits in a restaurant and spends most of your time staring at other people? Why don't you just keep your eyes on your food and the others at your table instead of staring at what others are doing?
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my guess is that there were other factors at play here. Either she didn't do it discretely, which is entirely possible, or her man was dying to start shit with anyone who glanced over at it.
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She didn't have to do it discreetly.
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240, that doesn't explain the people who are just dead set against it taking place in public. We have at least one in this thread. We both know that a breastfeeding mother is showing less breast than a chick in a bikini or even than some dresses and tops reveal. They're probably against that too ::) This type of person is going to be against it in public no matter how the mother does it. If we have them posting here, you can bet they're out there. I wouldn't be so quick to blame the mother.
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i dont care if ppl do it in public - but I can understand why a wait staff, on easter morning, might get upset at the situation.
She looks like trash, in my opinion. Her "baby daddy" screams at wait staff, and they are asked to leave. They go home and start a facebook page about it.
I dunno, to me it doesn't pass the smell test. I think it's a case of a sensitive staff on a busy morning, dealing with 2 trashy ppl.
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Popping out a tit in public for enjoyment is a crime, popping a tit in a restaurant isn't a crime. Makes sense if you're a mongoloid.
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(http://www.scumdoctor.com/images/Is-Leaking-Breast-Milk-A-Sign-Of-Pregnancy.jpg)
Why did I post that?
No clue...
;D
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Fortunately for me when I eat I'm not exposing parts of my body that would get me arrested.
Thank Goodness I live in Ontario Canada, where woman are not arrested for exposing their breasts or feeding their babies.
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Breastfed kids have higher IQs too.
As well as a stronger and more robust immunity system.
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i dont care if ppl do it in public - but I can understand why a wait staff, on easter morning, might get upset at the situation.
She looks like trash, in my opinion. Her "baby daddy" screams at wait staff, and they are asked to leave. They go home and start a facebook page about it.
I dunno, to me it doesn't pass the smell test. I think it's a case of a sensitive staff on a busy morning, dealing with 2 trashy ppl.
I'm talking in general, not just about this case. Because this case is one among many that have happened over and over through the years. Also, I'm not going to look at how they look and decide they must be in the wrong because they look like trailer trash. That's kinda lame.
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I'm talking in general, not just about this case. Because this case is one among many that have happened over and over through the years. Also, I'm not going to look at how they look and decide they must be in the wrong because they look like trailer trash. That's kinda lame.
lol... even trailer trash needs to eat too. ;D
For far too long people have sexualized the mammaries and have completely forgotten what they are for.
If and when they're occasionally reminded of what they're for... they're disgusted and grossed out. Go figure! :-\
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240 doesn't harbor any hard feelings against all the people here who made fun of him when he use to post white trash looking shots from his old trailer. :D
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i've spent tons of time in the trailer park... I know there is a greater chance that trailer folk will start shit to get thrown out of a restaurant because 1) they're insecure 2) they can get a meal free if thrown out before completion.
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i've spent tons of time in the trailer park... I know there is a greater chance that trailer folk will start shit to get thrown out of a restaurant because 1) they're insecure 2) they can get a meal free if thrown out before completion.
and that always worked for you? Didn't they start to get suspicious after a couple times?
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240, I'm just fucking with you, I still don't get how people can in general be against breastfeeding in public.
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LMAO! I have no prob with public breastfeeding.
I just look at the pic of the lady in the story, I hear her "fiance", meaning babybaby. I hear he started shit with staff. I picture a packed restaurant. And her reaction? To go home and start bitching to her friends on FB and start a FB complain page?
240 = the resident trailer trash expert ;)