Is it legal to breastfeed in public?
In any state, any place where it is legal to take a child, you can breastfeed. I believe it was "Fit Pregnancy" just a few weeks ago, that magazine, was talking about this incident on the airplane, and they did go state by state with each state's standing law. So somebody might want to check that website and find out what their particular state is. But as far as we know, it's legal everywhere. In California the way it's stated it has to do with anywhere but in a private home of someone that doesn't want you to nurse in that home, so it's like whatever, don't go there. But you can nurse everywhere, so people can't kick you out of a store. One of the funniest stories I ever heard was a Victoria's Secret story. I don't know if you can use that name. But it happened in Victoria's Secret here in California, and one of our mothers went in. She had a terrible time breastfeeding in the first place, and she had finally gotten it together and she was really proud of herself. She went in and had made some purchases around Christmas time, and she hadn't quite finished paying when her baby started to cry. And she said, "You know what? I need to go and nurse my baby. I'll come back. Could you hold these things?" And so the woman that was waiting on her said, "Well, why don't you just go into the dressing room and nurse your baby?" And she said, "Okay, thank you very much, I'll do that. "Well, the manager came back from lunch, and found this woman breastfeeding and said, "What are you doing? You're ruining our business," and she booted her out of the store. And here it was, Victoria's Secret, of all places. The woman was married to an attorney, had an attorney for a father, so there was a little letter-writing that took place and there was an apology made. But it just is a funny thing that our society is all about breasts, but for a different reason. So being in Victoria's Secret, where breasts are the theme, she couldn't breastfeed according to this female manager.
