Hundreds of women showed up at a mall is Wyomissing, Pennsylvia on Saturday, but they weren't there to shop. They were there to bare their breasts in the interest of feeding of their children. The women were participating in a nurse-in in support of Leigh Bellini, who while nursing her six-month-old baby at the mall, was asked to go to a public bathroom or to her car.
Bellini was sitting on a bench with her stroller in front of her for privacy when security approached after receiving a complaint. When the family refused to move, security threatened to get the police involved. Mall management has since said the security officer was wrong and that the mall has no policy preventing mothers from breastfeeding.
Anyone that has breastfed or been closely involved with nursing women knows that it is possible to nurse without "showing anything," as Bellini said she was doing. And, if a bit of breast does happen to show, look away, people! Give that mom some privacy: she's feeding her child, not putting on a strip show. Hooray for Bellini for sticking to her guns, and to the women who took over the mall's center court in support of her.
