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.”

[familyop]

"...her dentist, Dr. Robin Craig..."

The dentist is a woman.

"'I had Ember cradled and one hand at the bottom of my shirt, with ZERO skin exposed.'"

She was nursing her baby. Some people with foreign minds are immature or abnormally affected. There's no sex there. Mind your own business. Good American boys were taught in the 1960s and before to avoid staring or making off-color comments about it. Real Americans honor motherhood but don't worship motherhood. Real Americans like sex but don't worship that, either.

[familyop]

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

Some babies start teething as early as about 4 months. Others...after 12 months. So the answer depends on the baby. *Crunch!* ;-)

[redfreedom]

I caught that too, and could not see the similarity.

Oh well.

[Manly Warrior]

Agreed. I think that a dentists office, like any other private property, I not a “public place”.

NYS law defines what a “public place” is, and I am rather certain it does not include any private property.

Mommy needs to respect private property. She likely could have simply asked “Doc, is it ok if I nurse my baby here?” The doc probably would have either had no issue with it or made some accommodation.

Seems everyone has rights except everyone else.... Narcissism, I believe.

[trebb]

My thoughts too - when done properly (for a public setting) most won’t even notice one is breastfeeding.