Breastfeeding Mom Kicked Out of Salon
On Wednesday a breastfeeding mom, Robyn Nair, was kicked out of a Denton Hair Salon for breastfeeding her 8 month old infant daughter. She was one of the first in the Denton Hair Salon at 9:30 a.m. when her little girl began to fuss because she was hungry. Like any other mother she prepared to feed her daughter, quickly covering up with a shawl and adjusting herself the hair stylist stopped her and told her that wasn’t allowed in public.
The hair stylist is quoted to have said, ”We do not allow that, and I’m going to have to ask you to leave.”
(Before I go on with the story, the law there is that woman are allowed to breastfeed, whenever and where ever.)
Immediately she did, wet hair and in the middle of an unfinished haircut. What would you have done? Now the company has come forward stating this is not how they feel, that the employee was in the wrong. Would you go back?
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6 opinions for Breastfeeding Mom Kicked Out of Salon
Globetrotter Parent
Mar 8, 2008 at 12:46 pm
I wish people would just grow up and realize that there is nothing obscene or dirty about a baby drinking its mother’s milk.
Domestic Divapalooza
Mar 8, 2008 at 1:38 pm
When I brestfed my daughters in public I made sure that I wore a “tent” so that people couldn’t even tell what I was doing under there.
There was one time that I was breast feeding and carried on a conversation with a gentleman at the mall. He was waiting for his wife to come out of a boutique.
When I finished my job feeding Kinsley I took her out from under the “tent” and the guy was completely surprised that I had been breastfeeding all along.
I could move about, adjust my braw, and fix myself up before even pulling the “tent” back over my head and being free again.
He was not in the least bit upset and was even a little surprised that I could cover up the breastfeeding so well out in public. He totally complimented me on it too.
When breastfeeding Mom’s whip out their boobs, nipple and all, I have a problem with that. I think Mom’s should be as discrete as possible.
The gal at the hair shop was wrong. In fact, I’m surprised that the gal breastfeeding would even be given such a hard time over it. Don’t they drape their clients with a “tent” anyway? What was there to see?
Eliza
Mar 8, 2008 at 1:53 pm
You are correct Angelia- actually I didn’t say this but she was already wearing the cape they put over you on top of having a shawl. This should not have been an issue, I’m thinking thsi was the hair stylists own feelings that shined through.
I know if I was ever kicked out of a place like that I’d never go back, not unless it was for a breastfeeding standoff.
Jessica (aka Rose)
Mar 8, 2008 at 3:03 pm
I wouldn’t go back, not even if they offered free services as an apology. In this day and age with all the media action about breastfeeding in public it’s inadmissible that people are still getting kicked out of places.
That said, every time I, discretely, feed my daughter I keep hoping someone will call me out on it so I can make a stand. So far, no one has ever even looked my way. LOL
Maria
Mar 8, 2008 at 7:04 pm
I nurse anytime, anywhere, and if the stylist had said that to me, I would have recited the law. If the stylist persisted, I would have left. Then I would have contacted the owner, and if necessary pursued other avenues. I would not go back no matter what, and I would tell everyone I know (and some I don’t know via my blog) not to go to that salon.
Most women who nip are not trying to flash their breast or create a scene. that being said, my son refuses a blanket and always has, so I never cover him, and I have become efficient enough that unless you are staring at my breasts, you are not going to see anything. I do not know any nursing mom who whips it out and purposefully exposes her breast “nipple and all” for the world to see. Even if they did, so what? Why are breasts so sexualized that we cannot even nurse our children without people freaking out?
Domestic Divapalooza
Mar 8, 2008 at 7:38 pm
I have seen plenty of nursing moms whip it out and having been a breast feeding Mom myself I do not feel it’s appropriate to do so and ESPECIALLY because of the society that we live in. ‘
I believe there is a time and a place to be nude and whether you are breastfeeding OR posing for playboy, doing so in public is not the time or the place.
I would continue to breastfeed in public but I would be careful to cover up just so because I think it’s the right thing to do.
Now I realize there are a slew of you “my way is the right way always” type of peeps out there and I will politely say that we can just agree to disagree on that point.
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