Moms get berated for breastfeeding in public all the time, it seems. But what about when baby is fed from a bottle? What about Jill Harper, bottle-feeding mom, who was asked to leave Wyoming coffee house Percolation for giving her baby formula?
While having lunch with friends, Harper's 5-month-old daughter, Katherine, started to fuss, so her mother made her a bottle and began to feed her. Then, the unthinkable happened, which Harper describes:A woman walked up to our table (who I later learned was the owner) and said, "Please stop or go somewhere else with that. It's just gross." I stared at her, not understanding.I said, "Excuse me?" She then waved her hand, obviously agitated, at my baby in my lap. I looked down, wondering if Katherine had puked or leaked poop or something 'gross' but no, she was just drinking from her bottle, a little dribble of her meal down her cheek.
Harper's friends sat in dumbstruck silence, trying to figure out what could be so offensive about a baby. But the real shocker came in a minute, when the owner said what really bothered her: the bottle.
While having lunch with friends, Harper's 5-month-old daughter, Katherine, started to fuss, so her mother made her a bottle and began to feed her. Then, the unthinkable happened, which Harper describes:A woman walked up to our table (who I later learned was the owner) and said, "Please stop or go somewhere else with that. It's just gross." I stared at her, not understanding.I said, "Excuse me?" She then waved her hand, obviously agitated, at my baby in my lap. I looked down, wondering if Katherine had puked or leaked poop or something 'gross' but no, she was just drinking from her bottle, a little dribble of her meal down her cheek.Harper's friends sat in dumbstruck silence, trying to figure out what could be so offensive about a baby. But the real shocker came in a minute, when the owner said what really bothered her: the bottle.
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