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This web site is how the more personal freedoms that a nursing home offers the happer and healther the occupants are. This site shows how personal freedoms positively effect people.

Another "Time" breastfeeding in public article, this time about a celebrity, Beyonce.This article also links to many other good articles about data related to breastfeeding, "nurse-ins", and sites like the American Academy of Pediatrics. A lot of this information is good to have to help support arguments for breastfeeding in public.

This article talks about the negative response from a surprising number of readers of Babytalk Magazine when a 2006 magazine cover displayed part of a woman's breast and a baby nursing. While a number of readers were put off by the photo, another responded that she wants people to realize that a breast is more than just a sex object. It goes on to discuss celebrity support for public breast-feeding and how many retailers and restaurants who antagonize breast-feeding women have been subject to "nurse-ins." One of the best lines from the article is from a woman who refuses to feed in a public, questionably clean restroom stating, ""My kid needed to eat. I don't send people to the bathroom when THEY want to eat."

Most of us are aware that there are significant benefits to breastfeeding. One should know the laws and the resources to go to if one is discriminated against for breastfeeding in public. One should also be considerate of others when breastfeeding in public.

This site helps to clarify breastfeeding in public laws. Very informative, and interesting to know what rights a nursing mother has.

Nursing mothers no longer have to worry about having a blanket to cover up. They have the personal freedom to bare all in order to provide to their child. Nursing mothers no longer have to search for a public restroom or hide while feeding their child.

In this brief article, a woman was reprimanded by her employer for breast-feeding her 3-month-old son in a Fort Brag mini-mall. Someone who was offended by the woman breast-feeding filed an anonymous complaint and a few days later the woman was told by her manager that the Army and Air Force Exchange Services, which manages military malls, has banned breast feeding. Although the employee did not want to make anyone uncomfortable or cause any further issue after her reprimand both North Carolina and federal law, allow women to breast-feed in public, even if their breast is exposed.

This was an issue 11 years ago when I was a breastfeeding mom. I had no choice but to take my 8 week old baby with me to a mandatory work meeting. I had a "cover" that is made to drape over me like a pancho. You could see nothing. Not even the baby's feet! I was asked to leave the meeting. That also came with repercussions, obviously out of my control. The mind blowing part of this entire story is my boss was a mother that had nursed her baby when he was little. Wouldn't you think she would understand more than anyone? This article is interesting to me due to the fact that there are laws in place to keep mothers from breastfeeding their children. That is outrageous! You should not feel pressured to bottle feed your child. It is a personal choice. I as a parent, had weighed out the pros and cons of both. And I made the decision to give my daughter a healthy head start. Why should we as human beings, be punished for taking proper care of our children. In my opinion, people need to find something else to complain about. And they will!

The healthcare system should really be able to check the immigration status of patients, from experience it makes it uncomfortable for others in the hospital. We recently went into the hospital and it felt like a party was going on in labor and delivery waiting room when there was about 20 people in there screaming at a football game. No matter how many times the nurse went in, the noise did not go away at all.

In this article, they talk about how 45 states including Arizona allow nursing in public and private places. Women can not be charged for any form of indecent exposure when it comes to breast feeding.

Giving mothers un-paid break time to pump the milk for their nursing child. People don't realize that this is not only a health benefit it is an economic benefit.

Although these patient rights are not written anywhere, there are some rights that are thought of to be true or given. Some of these rights are based on respect and some on the responsibilities of the patient,

I liked this article and i especially enjoyed the part that lists some of the patients responsibilities, one of which was "respect the providers". I think some patients don't understand that just because they are in pain, it does not give them the right to be overly rude to their healthcare providers (i.e nurses, doctors ma, pharmacists, etc).