Breastfeeding Mom Accused of Indecent Exposure

[proud2BlibKansan]

The war on mothers who breastfeed in public continues across the country, embarrassing the women who do so.

A Washington D.C. mother was recently charged with indecent exposure after she was caught breastfeeding her 4-month-old in the hallway of a government building.

The mother, Simone Dos Santos, who is also a lawyer, was waiting on a traffic hearing when she stepped out in the hallway to breastfeed her child. Santos was covering herself with a jacket when two guards approached her and told her she had to stop.

"I was shocked, upset and angry that by providing food for my son, I was being treated like a criminal," she wrote in a blog post for the Washington Post.

more . . . http://www.theroot.com/buzz/breastfeeding-mom-indecent-exposure?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

[Fumesucker]

1. She should have been giving formula in a bottle like God intended..

[KansDem]

5. Yeah! Yeah! Just like Nestlé did during the 1970s!

The baby milk issueGroups such as the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) and Save the Children claim that the promotion of infant formula over nursing has led to health problems and deaths among infants in less economically developed countries.[3][4] There are four problems that can arise when poor mothers in developing countries switch to formula:

Formula must normally be mixed with water, which is often contaminated in poor countries, leading to disease in vulnerable infants.[5] Because of the low literacy rates in developing nations, many mothers are not aware of the sanitation methods needed in the preparation of bottles. Even mothers able to read in their native tongue may be unable to read the language in which sterilization directions are written.

Even mothers who can understand the sanitation standards required often do not have the means to perform them: fuel to boil water, electric (or other reliable) light to enable sterilisation at night. UNICEF estimates that a formula-fed child living in disease-ridden and unhygienic conditions is between six and 25 times more likely to die of diarrhea and four times more likely to die of pneumonia than a breastfed child.[6]

Many poor mothers use less formula powder than is necessary, in order to make a container of formula last longer. As a result, some infants receive inadequate nutrition from weak solutions of formula.[7]
Breast milk has many natural benefits lacking in formula. Nutrients and antibodies are passed to the baby while hormones are released into the mother's body.[8] Breastfed babies are protected, in varying degrees, from a number of illnesses, including diarrhea, bacterial meningitis, gastroenteritis, ear infection, and respiratory infection.[9][10][11] Breast milk contains the right amount of the nutrients essential for neuronal (brain and nerve) development.[12] The bond between baby and mother can be strengthened during breastfeeding.[10] Frequent and exclusive breastfeeding can also delay the return of fertility, which can help women in developing countries to space their births.[13] The World Health Organization recommends that, in the majority of cases, babies should be exclusively breast fed for the first six months.[14]

Advocacy groups and charities have accused Nestlé of unethical methods of promoting infant formula over breast milk to poor mothers in developing countries.[15][16] For example, IBFAN claim that Nestlé distributes free formula samples to hospitals and maternity wards; after leaving the hospital, the formula is no longer free, but because the supplementation has interfered with lactation, the family must continue to buy the formula. IBFAN also allege that Nestlé uses "humanitarian aid" to create markets, does not label its products in a language appropriate to the countries where they are sold, and offers gifts and sponsorship to influence health workers to promote its products.[17] Nestlé denies these allegations.[18]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9_boycott

How dare this mother interfere with Kapitalismus!

[teddy51]

2. More crazy in this country. WTF n/t

[izquierdista]

3. Without reading the article....

I'm going to go out on a limb and say the guards did not have boobs, but rather are boobs.

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. At least one was a female

[patrice]

4. unless she's topless & breast-feeding a 3-4 yr old male, while leaning on a VERY large shotgun . . .

oh! and . . . blonde 20-something.

Check out some of those embarrassing family-christmas photo albums making the rounds on the internet lately.

[JohnnyRingo]

7. Exposure yes, indecent no.

Heaven forbid an eight year old may ask a parent about what the woman is doing and said parent will have to do their duty. If indeed someone gets sexually excited witnessing this, it's a perverted problem on behalf of the "offended" party.

I don't believe any modest woman should purposely seek a public audience for this natural human act, but sometimes I'm sure the situation presents itself.

[hunter]

8. If a lobbyist was nursing a Republican Congressman they probably would have looked the other way...

[patrice]

9. I just have no idea what to say to this!!! I crown you . . .

Intense! of absurdist imagery!

[MedicalAdmin]

10. That is why she was charged.

She was feeding the wrong person.


Stuff like this makes my man parts boil with hatred for the stupid. It's very dumb.

[patrice]

12. Ouch!!

[jwirr]

11. Back in the 50s we covered ourselves with a hanky and no one thought it was indecent. Times have

changed. Idiots.