Melissa Tracy, a breastfeeding mom is brought to tears
by the manager of an iParty store as he scolds her for
breastfeeding her infant in the store where children might see
and then proceeds to kicked her out of store.
Dr. Melissa Tracy, 40, a cardiologist practicing in Brockton,
Mass. said, "He stood over me and said you can't do that
here."
"I've never felt that badly before."
"It was so humiliating," she said. "I was made to feel like I was
doing something vulgar or stealing."
 Tracy
was shopping for her daughter Isabella's 4th birthday party when
2 month old Tristan got hungry and began to cry.
Tracey stated, "Rather than let him become hysterical, I sat down on the floor and
breastfed him."
Tracy and her husband, Jochen Reiser, were aghast when the
manager pooh-poohed what she called "the most natural thing a mother can
do for a child."
After reporting the incident to iParty, Tracy was told that the store manager himself was uncomfortable with the act of
nursing. The manager later called with a half-hearted
apology.
iParty released a statement saying it regrets the incident and plans to include tolerance for breast-feeding in its managerial
training.
People need to grow up!
Marsha Walker, executive director of the National Alliance of Breastfeeding
Advocacy said, "breastfeeding tends to be an American
hangup stemming from bawdy portrayals of breasts in ads and
TV."
"People also have misconceptions about the benefits of
nursing and wrongly think it requires a woman to expose
herself."
"I've never seen a woman in public take her breast out to the point where anyone can see
anything."
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