Wal-Mart Apologizes To Woman Barred From Breast Feeding In Store
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
The world`s largest retailer has
apologized to a Fort Collins, Colorado, woman barred from
breast-feeding her baby in a checkout lane.
Wal-Mart officials in Bentonville, Arkansas, say store managers
are being informed that company policy allows breast-feeding
anywhere in its stores.
Nineteen-year-old Jennifer Trimble says she had to partially
bare her breast to feed eight-month-old daughter Saturday, but was
asked to cover herself or feed the baby in a restroom.
Trimble plans to testify this afternoon at Colorado`s state
Capitol in favor of a bill that would allow women to breast-feed
babies in public.
She also plans to stage a "nurse-in" at the Wal-Mart store on
January 31st, and hopes other mothers who are nursing infants will
join her.
