Impassioned blog posts, eloquent spoken word poems and a seemingly endless series of news stories about mothers who have been shamed for breastfeeding out in the open are slowly but surely helping people to realize that feeding a child in a public place is normal. But we’re not quite there yet.
A Today.com poll of around 10,000 people shows that attitudes are still evolving: fewer than 40 percent of respondents said they thought nursing in public was a “non issue,” while nine percent of respondents said they felt “empowered,” and an equal proportion felt “embarrassed.”
In a segment of the TODAY Show’s week-long #BornTODAY series devoted to breastfeeding, correspondent Jenna Wolfe took her 5-week-old baby, Harper, to a number of New York businesses and landmarks like FAO Schwarz and the Plaza hotel (concealed camera in tow) to find out if anyone would challenge her legal right to nurse.
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