Comments on: Again. http://inexplicableways.com/2008/06/13/again/ Humbly building the universe Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:36:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Adventures In Babywearing http://inexplicableways.com/2008/06/13/again/#comment-314 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:43:19 +0000 http://inexplicableways.wordpress.com/?p=180#comment-314 Oh my gosh- this is appalling!

Steph

]]> By: InexplicableWays http://inexplicableways.com/2008/06/13/again/#comment-304 Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:59:20 +0000 http://inexplicableways.wordpress.com/?p=180#comment-304 Hi Tiffany! Thanks for updating us and for turning this incident into a welcome awareness opportunity!

Jennifer, the DHEC cards were, I think, created by the SC Breastfeeding Action Committee. They include an outline of SC law on breastfeeding rights.

]]> By: Tiffany Gregory http://inexplicableways.com/2008/06/13/again/#comment-303 Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:02:08 +0000 http://inexplicableways.wordpress.com/?p=180#comment-303 Hey guys! I am the mother in question right now and thought I’d make sure everybody was up to date on everything. First of all I know this getting around through the internet and people watching tv the story gets mixed up. Westgate mall never told me I couldn’t breastfeed there they demanded that I go in the bathroom or put a blanket over her. First of all she doesn’t eat with blankets over her head (she’s four months old) second of all, I had a plate of food and I thought it would be ridiculous for me to move and thought well, if I feel this way about my food then she should have the same respect.

That being said I met with the GM last night, Ron Thomas, who said that I “over-reacted and there was a crowd gawking…” apologized to me and said there would be a formal apology released to the media (haven’t heard it yet). He said had the news been later after he started investigating it would’ve gone in a different direction. My question is, if he hadn’t investigated why did he make a statement of something he had no clue about making my humiliation go sky high.

He has to send everything to corporate but I suggested (one of my many suggestions) that westgate mall hosts a breastfeeding awareness day. He seemed really open to that idea. So if we shift more towards that idea we can still get the education out there and have all the nursing moms go up there that day instead of a protesting nurse in! Hopefully it’ll end positively but if it doesn’t we will all be up for a nurse-in. SC breastfeeding coalition said see how it pans out, first right also said to wait. Obviously we would like to end on a positive, educated note :)

I told him everything I had to say, all he could say was he knows they were wrong and couldn’t believe his employee could/would act like that. I was OK with the meeting, knowing that he was still covering his butt for his company I didn’t trust him completely but had peace of mind and felt like the situation was being handled properly.

I was optimistic so my mother and I walked through the mall and she’s still working!!! Why would he call and invite us to the mall to apologize, and then make us deal with her all over again by seeing her still at work. She should be suspended pending investigation! What nursing mother (that didn’t know her rights) did she harass last night?

]]> By: emily snapp http://inexplicableways.com/2008/06/13/again/#comment-302 Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:26:02 +0000 http://inexplicableways.wordpress.com/?p=180#comment-302 I think the SC Breastfedding Advocacy Group (I’m sure I have the name wrong) is actually planning one within the next two weeks, for you SC mamas.

]]> By: Sally http://inexplicableways.com/2008/06/13/again/#comment-301 Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:42:27 +0000 http://inexplicableways.wordpress.com/?p=180#comment-301 emily, ohhhhhh if only i lived in SC, I would be there with you!

]]> By: emily snapp http://inexplicableways.com/2008/06/13/again/#comment-299 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:07:41 +0000 http://inexplicableways.wordpress.com/?p=180#comment-299 This is unexcusable. I did email the Westgate Mall and I sincerely hope I get a reply. I will be shopping there no more, but I’m all for a nurse-in! Any one up for it? ;)

]]> By: Jenny Harmon http://inexplicableways.com/2008/06/13/again/#comment-298 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:27:26 +0000 http://inexplicableways.wordpress.com/?p=180#comment-298 I think women are way worse than men about being boob police. They probably are insecure. I know when I meet moms who are not breastfeeding b/c they were discouraged, it’s always been by another woman.

]]> By: Jennifer http://inexplicableways.com/2008/06/13/again/#comment-296 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:21:26 +0000 http://inexplicableways.wordpress.com/?p=180#comment-296 What is the DHEC card?

]]> By: InexplicableWays http://inexplicableways.com/2008/06/13/again/#comment-295 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:56:09 +0000 http://inexplicableways.wordpress.com/?p=180#comment-295 It was a female security guard. And according to the mom, she hovered over the mother the entire time . Even after the head security guard found out (much, much later) that the mom really was protected by the law and asked the female security guard to apologize, the female guard refused.

]]> By: carey http://inexplicableways.com/2008/06/13/again/#comment-294 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:23:20 +0000 http://inexplicableways.wordpress.com/?p=180#comment-294 i am utterly amazed by this. who would have the audacity to approach someone nursing and be mean about it? must have anxiety about boobs, never was nursed, or wife wouldn’t/”couldn’t”. some issue must lie beneath a vendetta of that sort. i found that combining babywearing with breastfeeding in public kept me on the move and away from pesky boob-haters. i hope the westgate mall hands out cleavage tickets.

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