The View From Kalamazoo
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In yesterday’s Kalamazoo Gazette Letters to the Editor:
Mothers invited to Nurse Out
ProMoM (Promotion of Mother’s Milk,Inc.) encourages all breastfeeding mothers to go out during World Breastfeeding Week August 1-7 and breastfeed in public. We don’t mean your regular routine; we mean go out specifically to nurse in public.
What makes a Nurse Out different than a “nurse in”? Nurse Outs are for all nursing mothers to heighten awareness of nursing in public by casually blanketing large areas without use of signs, pickets or protests. The purpose of a Nurse Out is to increase visibility of nursing in public in a casual manner, while a “nurse in” is geared to protest or change policy, generally by asking nursing moms to nurse in clusters in front of a specific business or government building.
Why participate in the National Nurse Out?
ProMoM hopes that by promoting the image of breastfeeding in this way, more people will accept breastfeeding as a natural everyday occurrence and the normal way to feed and nurture babies. “Nursing Out” is also a way to encourage expecting mothers by showing them that it is possible to breastfeed in public without anyone being embarrassed!
What you can do:
# Nurse in public as much as possible the week of Aug. 1-7, and then continue to pursue that freedom on your own as necessary for your baby.
# Participate in your local nurse out.
WHEN: Sunday, Aug. 3 between noon to 2 p.m.
WHERE: Nurse throughout downtown’s Bronson Park and the Kalamazoo Mall, then meet at the park’s flower peacock at 2 p.m. to visit with one another.
