Breastfeeding mom slams dentist who told her to cover up

NY Post ^ | December 5, 2018 | 4:09pm | y Tamar Lapin

[conservative98]

An upstate mom blasted her dentist as “Dr. Ignorant” for telling her she needed to stop breastfeeding in an exam room.

Mother-of-two Tiffany Elliott, from Irondequoit in suburban Rochester, said she was “beside herself” after being “shamed” by her dentist, Dr. Robin Craig, for starting to breastfeed her 9-month-old daughter, Ember, during her older daughter’s appointment.

“I had Ember cradled and one hand at the bottom of my shirt, with ZERO skin exposed. Dr. Ignorant then says, ‘Ok I’m uncomfortable and whatever you are doing there needs to stop!’, while motioning around her chest with her hands frantically,” Elliott, 30, wrote on Facebook Saturday. “My jaw dropped you guys!”

Elliott said she explained that based on a 1994 state law, she has a right to breastfeed her child in any public location.

“Her ignorance and comfort level does NOT trump my baby’s needs,” she wrote.

But Craig brushed it off, suggesting the family find a new dentist, Elliott said.

“I CRIED you guys!” she wrote. “Anyone who knows me, knows that is NOT me! I felt so embarrassed. Not by the thing I love, which is nurturing my baby wherever and whenever, but by the total IGNORANCE of a society they breeds such clowns.”

[Responsibility2nd]

“Excuse me, ma’am. I’m here to examine your TEETH. Not your TEATS.”

[dfwgator]

Al: What is happening to this country, when a woman of the opposite sex can just waddle into your place of business, your holy sanctuary and bare her breasts? - That's disgusting.

Griff: It's repulsive.

[Responsibility2nd]

I can see the dentists POV.

You’re trying to do an exam of her teeth. But she’s in the chair with her teats hanging out and a baby in the way going “slup, slup, SLUP.”

[Responsibility2nd]

I stand (sitting actually) corrected. It was not the mother being examed.

[T. Rustin Noone]

Is it just me or does 9 months seem a bit advanced in age to be nursing?

[donna]

Pre-feminism, women were interesting.

[rlmorel]

I wish people on both sides of this stupidity would take two pieces of advice:

• People uncomfortable with public breastfeeding: Even though it makes you uncomfortable, suck it up and just get through it. That breastfeeding woman is passing through your life and will soon be out of it. If it makes you uncomfortable, just find a way to deal with it until she is done, then go on with your life.

• Breastfeeding mothers: Understand that some people might be uncomfortable because even though it is a normal biological function, there are people in our culture who do view breasts as sexual in nature and have trouble viewing them as instruments of that biological function. Instead of being militant, try to be considerate of that unusual view.

I know both pieces of advice will be ignored on both sides of this.

[ClearCase_guy]

I really find women very boring now. I have to walk on eggshells at all times. So many things cannot be said. So many things have to be said. I get in trouble for what I do, and what I don’t do. I get in trouble for what I say and what I don’t say.

The MGTOW movement is very easy to understand. Most women today just aren’t interesting.

[Dawgreg]

When are these women going to realize that flopping out their puppies in public doesn’t sit will with a lot of people. It’s a beautiful thing between MOTHER and CHILD.......not MOTHER and everybody else in public. Makes me sick!!!!!

[rlmorel]

Maybe she’s a member of the La Leche League.

[wbill]

Why do these moms insist on making a spectacle of themselves?

"Look at me! Aren't I virtuous for breastfeeding my child? How dare you question my virtuousity! Look at ME! ME!"

Approximately. Your mileage may vary.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Normally I’m totally on the side of breastfeeding mothers, but the EXAM ROOM of a doctor’s office is not a “public place”, and you are there to get your teeth worked on, not feed your baby. I remember babies, and waiting 15 minutes is not going to kill them.

It’s not like the dentist could actually do his job WHILE she was breastfeeding her kid.

[Bringbackthedraft]

But she’s in the chair with her teats hanging out and a baby in the way going “slup, slup, SLUP.” ................. In these times, I’m surprised it isn’t a teen son.

[donna]

Other women have to walk on eggshells, too! Women are mean to other women.

I think Islam is going to succeed because men are going to get more satisfying interests, sad to say, and that is an easy way to segregate women.

[Electric Graffiti]

I need more evidence.

[b4me]

woman should not have brought baby to dental appt or at least should have inquired in advance about need to bring babay and possibly breastfeed. It’s a doctors office and eaxam area not your home. What the Doctor wants is what should happen. Kid won’t starve in an hour. Get there early - feed in car. This mom of two thinks the world revolves around her, it doesn’t.

[Hulka]

“1994 state law, she has a right to breastfeed her child in any public location”

A dentist office in not a public area, it is private property.

[Hulka]

Indeed. Correct.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

They should have said try and find a new dentist. Once her name gets out, other practices will suddenly be too busy to take her.

[CaptainPhilFan]

Dear Your Generation; Not everyone is as comfortable around your naked tits as you are. Stop thinking you're the only special person in the world and have some consideration for other people's feelings. Boobs are sexual. You wanna say they weren't involved in making that kid? Then you may as well drop your drawers, too. 　 Get over yourself.