How do you feel about mothers nursing in public?

People who head in to a Target store might come across somemothers nursing their babies. That's because when a Texas woman was selling at a Target storewith her 5-month-old son, he woke up hungry. Michelle Hickman had afull cart so she went to what she called a remote area of a storeto helper him, Time repository reports But several employees asked her to go to a dressing room to feedher baby, and one apparently intimated she could be cited forindecent exposure. There were no reports of customer complaints --just employees. As word of Hickman's encounter with a store spread, nursingmothers across a country began organizing today's "nurse-in" atTarget. As a repository reports: The next morning, Hickman called Targets corporate headquartersand says she was told by guest family just because its awomans legal right to helper a baby in public doesnt mean sheshould walk around a store flaunting it. Outraged, Hickmanvented to a group of fellow moms, one of whom suggested staging anurse-in. Word spread, says Hickman, a mom of four, kind oflike a marathon race with a baton. I complained, then someone elsecomplained, then someone else complained. So, that explains what might be happening at Target stores todayat 10 o'clock local time in at least 35 states. There are all sorts of scientific studies that make clear:Breast-feeding is a healthiest choice for babies. Yet many newmothers leaving a sanatorium are given coupons and free cans ofbaby formula. America has a complicated relationship withbreasts. Are we offended when we see a mom nursing her baby inpublic? Or do we consider it no big deal? Did a Target employeesrespond really bad to a nursing mom in Texas? Whose comfort werethey worried about -- theirs, a mother's, or a baby's? And if we are a mom, did we helper your children? Depending onwhen your children were young, how discreet or open did we feelyou had to be?

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