Comments on: Nurse-In Tomorrow in DC

By: Anita

Anita — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:04:16 +0000

Thanks so much for posting the action! We really appreciate that you’re spreading the word. We will continue to support the Breastfeeding Promotion Act with email actions, and we welcome everyone to join us!

-Anita, MomsRising.org

By: yazikus

yazikus — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:56:03 +0000

Congrats Ashley!
I just had a baby at home, I was late, I had him the day before 42 weeks and my window of opportunity to birth at home closed.
It was a fantastic birth- and he wasn’t huge either, right smack dab average in size even though he was 2 weeks “late”- so don’t stress about it! Best of luck to you~!

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:48:37 +0000

KathyMarie, MomsRising does have a petition here: http://momsrisingaction.org/signUp.jsp?key=2614. You might also call your House rep and ask them to cosponsor the measure.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:16:19 +0000

Chingona, that’s one thing I’ve always found really interesting about the natural family living movement (what I call hippy parenting). You have people at two extremes of the spectrum. I’m very very pregnant (3 days “overdue”) and planning a homebirth and all the other hippy parenting jazz, and I’m a liberal feminist Pagan. My midwife who lives a very similar life to me in the kids and parenting department is a very conservative Christian.

By: KathyMarie

KathyMarie — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:41:26 +0000

Rachel, do you know of anything the out-of-staters can do? A petition to sign? I’m so excited about this act!

By: chingona

chingona — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:28:34 +0000

ND,

Some otherwise conservative states have good laws both for breastfeeding and midwifery because some conservative Christians favor “natural” mothering as being the way God intended it. I might have problems with their essentialism, but if it means legal protections in two areas that are important to me, I’ll take their support.

By: Naamah Darling

Naamah Darling — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:11:49 +0000

The link is working for me now just fine; it was the one listing all the breastfeeding-related laws state by state.

I am glad, but I can’t decide if I am surprised or not by the fact that my state (Oklahoma) has permissive laws regarding breastfeeding. We are so conservative and woman-unfriendly about everything else.

By: Napalm Nacey

Napalm Nacey — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:41:15 +0000

Woohoo! Mom IN! Awesome! If I were the right nationality, had my own bubbin and biddies full of milk, I’d be there with ‘em. I can only be there in spirit! It’s a big problem here in Australia, one woman was thrown out of a hotel in my city for *asking for a private room to breastfeed in*!! Big how-to-do about that. But unless you’re big mining or development, it’s impossible to get my state government to listen to *anything* you say. At least I had the joy of seeing my Premier shocked on the radio. Literally. *hahaha* (He put himself up for it, it was one of those quiz game shocker things).

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:16:38 +0000

They’re working for me. Which one’s giving you trouble?

By: Naamah Darling

Naamah Darling — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:51:04 +0000

Just as a heads up, the link at the end is not working for me!