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Breastfeeding in the News
Archives- Summer 2005
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July 31, 2005
The controversy of breast-feeding: Should you or shouldn't you do it in public?
BY ELESKA AUBESPIN
FLORIDA TODAY
Kristen Grissoms still gets upset when she thinks about what happened three years ago at an
Orlando amusement park.
While sitting inside one of the park's restaurant, Grissoms was asked to leave by an employee
because she was breast-feeding her then 6-month-old son, Braedan.
"A man told me he would rather me not be there," the Titusville mother of two said.
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RANDY SCHOLFIELD: IF MEN COULD BREAST-FEED
Did you see in "Meet the Fokkers" when Robert DeNiro straps on a fake plastic breast, cradles
his grandson in his arms, and begins feeding him with his daughter's pumped milk?
It's a funny scene, but also instructive: DeNiro's gruff character is determined to give his grandson
the benefits of mother's milk.
He doesn't seem to care what others think.
I think that's a healthy attitude for breast-feeding moms.
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Six Flags Asks Mom To Stop Breastfeeding
July 15, 2005
A north Chicago woman says she was asked to stop breastfeeding her child in a wading pool at
Six Flags Great America, despite a state law giving women the right to breastfeed in public.
Rebecca Gray says she was breastfeeding her four-month-old daughter inconspicuously. She
says a blanket attached to her bathing suit kept everything out of sight, except her baby's feet.
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Breastfeeding Protection Initiative Aims to Raise Awareness of Breastfeeding Rights
Thursday June 30, 11:01 am ET
La Leche League International and Lansinoh team up with a cause bracelet to raise funds for
awareness and education on breastfeeding rights and legislative issues
WASHINGTON, June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Imagine being told you must withhold food and
nutrition from your child because someone else's comfort level is being compromised. Imagine
being ridiculed or humiliated because you are trying to feed your baby. Imagine a child being
forcibly withheld from its only source of nutrition because of a custody arrangement, divorce, or
because you were called to serve for jury duty. Imagine making a child eat their food in a
restroom. Think these things are not happening? Think again, because this is happening
everyday to mothers who are merely trying to give their babies the best possible start in life as
recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the World Health Organization
(WHO), and other leading medical organizations.
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Breastfeeding mothers seek legal succour
In an era when surgical bust enhancement and cleavage-led advertising are accepted norms, it
might seem odd that legislation is deemed necessary to protect the most natural function of the
female breast.
Earlier this week, Ohio became the 34th US state to sign into law a provision bolstering the right
of women to breastfeed in public, amid complaints from nursing mothers of discrimination and
harassment.
Specialists urge women to breastfeed even the tiniest preemies
Jameca Benjamin was scared to even hold her premature baby, who weighed just under two
pounds. The nurses were urging the teen mother to breastfeed - yet Benjamin had never known
a woman who'd breastfed a healthy baby, much less one hooked to machines in intensive care.
Breast milk is babies' perfect food. It's even more important for the most vulnerable babies, those
born smaller than 3 1/2 pounds.
Mother's milk helps prevent myopia - study
Children who are breastfed are about fifty percent less likely to be short sighted, Singapore
researchers said on Tuesday.
Docosahexaenoi acid or DHA, a substance found in breast milk, could be the main element
which improves early visual development in babies, resulting in more ordered eyeball growth
which then reduces the development or severity of myopia.
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News Review From Harvard Medical School -- Breastfeeding Women Protest
About 200 women nursed their babies outside ABC headquarters in New York City June 6 to
protest a remark made by Barbara Walters on her talk show, "The View," The New York Times
reported June 7. Walters commented that she felt uncomfortable sitting next to a woman
breastfeeding on an airplane. The protest was one of several recently by activists supporting
public nursing, including a "nurse-in" at the U.S. Capitol in May to support legislation that would
provide legal protection for women to pump breast milk or breastfeed in the workplace.
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Short Video: Jimmy Kimmel's Commentary About Barbara Walter's Breastfeeding Remarks
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The Snobs on 'The View'
Have pity on Barbara Walters. Barbara Walters is, after all, Barbara Walters. And Barbara Walters
should not be made to suffer the gross indignity of flying in first class while a common woman
breast-feeds her baby.
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Nothing shameful about breast intentions
I am a breast man. That is what my mother says.
When it came to feeding time, my baby lips steered clear from the rubber nips. No bottle-feeding
for me. Fortified by my mother's choice long ago, I now have no choice but to carry the flag in the
ongoing dust-up in the mommy wars: Public breast-feeding is healthy, natural and perfectly
acceptable -- or it should be.
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Mom saves breast milk as she goes off to war
A story you won’t hear on the front lines of Operating Iraqi Freedom. An Oklahoma mom has 10
gallons of breast milk frozen for her baby boy. Every mom, who is called to serve our country,
spends hours preparing to leave her children. Here is the story of one mom that will leave her
son with the most precious gift she has to give.
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