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Breastfeeding
Moms At Starbucks
More than
two dozen mothers staged a breastfeeding "nurse-in" at a Starbucks
Corp. store in Maryland in an effort to get the world's largest
coffee shop chain to adopt a policy allowing breastfeeding in
all its U.S. stores.
Lorig Charkoudian,
who organized the event, said that she began her quest when she
was nursing her 15-month-old daughter at the store in Silver Spring,
Maryland, and was asked by a Starbucks employee to cover up with
a blanket or breastfeed in the bathroom.
She protested
and, after eventually reaching the regional vice president, got
Seattle-based Starbucks to recognize a Maryland law that allows
mothers to breastfeed their children in public. Starbucks spokeswoman
Audrey Lincoff said in a statement that the coffee chain "quickly
apologized for her negative experience" and reminded employees
at its Maryland stores to comply with the law.
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