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Breastfeeding women hold protest after abuse in cafe
Thursday July 05, 2012 05:44:37 PM,
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London: Carrying signs
that read "Mother Suckers", over 200 breastfeeding mothers marched
through Britain's Bristol city Thursday after one woman said she
was verbally abused by a waitress for feeding her baby at her
cafe.
Kelly Schaecher, 28, said she had intended to breastfeed her
five-month-old daughter Sasha while eating at the Park Street
Cafe, The Sun reported.
But when she sat down, a waitress came over and told her she would
have to sit in the corner if she wanted to feed her baby.
Schaecher said that after she left the cafe, the waitress followed
her down the road and screamed: "Don't you ever come back to my
cafe with your t*** out again!"
"When this happened, I was absolutely terrified, and really
shocked. I was only breastfeeding, and Bristol is a really
family-friendly city. You see girls in nightclubs barely wearing
any clothes all the time, so why would someone have a problem with
me feeding my child?" said Schaecher, who works in procurement at
the University of Bristol.
Word spread about the alleged incident, and Schaecher found a
Facebook page calling for mothers to meet up and breastfeed at the
cafe.
On Thursday, the crowd of women went to the cafe to make their
feelings known. Many were carrying signs that read "Lactavists"
and "Mother Suckers".
The cafe owner apologised, and gave everyone free tea or coffee
and cake.
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