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Woman with infant asked to leave Chicago trade show
Chicago TGribune ^ | 05/19/2014 | Meredith Rodriguez

Posted on 05/20/2014 7:36:10 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd

A woman who had hoped to promote her family-owned business at the National Restaurant Association trade show over the weekend was instead driving back to her Minnesota home Sunday.

Kristin Osborne was escorted out of the exhibit hall at McCormick Place on Saturday, she said, because she was carrying an infant. Osborne, 31, knew about the trade show rule that does not allow children under 16, she said, but did not think it would apply to her sleeping, 10-day-old baby wrapped closely to her chest. Osborne left her two other children, ages 2 and 4, at home, but said she has never been kicked out of a place for having an infant.

"As a working mother — and I have been working since I had my first one — this is a big surprise to me," said Osborne, who takes charge of marketing for her family-owned Spring Valley winery, Four Daughters Vineyard. "I have brought my babies all sorts of places. You don't bring children to adult places, but he eats every hour currently."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: breastfeeding
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To: Louis Foxwell
Disallowing a mother and participant to care for and feed her infant is a vulgarity.

In this current age of lawsuits, exercising discretion is a sure way to get sued over "discriminatory" treatment. The rule was "no kids under 16". The baby is under 16. If they let her in, then they invite all sorts of complaints from other participants who took the time and expense to arrange for child-care away from the trade show.

41 posted on 05/20/2014 8:10:29 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

There’s a fine line between lawfully exercising your God given rights and foolishly abusing those right which harm your cause.


42 posted on 05/20/2014 8:14:04 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

what part of “NO CHIDREN” was this idiot missing?

yes Lady, NO CHILDREN means your post-born fetus!


43 posted on 05/20/2014 8:17:16 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: treetopsandroofs

Instead of “Look! A squirrel!” it’s “Look! A breast!”


44 posted on 05/20/2014 8:18:23 AM PDT by Tax-chick (You say I'm insane ... I say you're afraid.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
And you are the one that determines when someone is foolishly abusing those rights? Hardly.

As long as no-one is breaking the law in exercising their God given rights, they are fine, regardless of whether it offends your sensibilities or not.

And it sounds like your sensibilities are easily offended if anyone steps out of your comfort zone.

Man up, and quit being afraid of the boogey man of 'harming your cause'. It exists mostly in your mind anyway.

/johnny

45 posted on 05/20/2014 8:18:43 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

It exists mostly in your mind anyway.

_________________________________

Does it now? 50 plus replies on this thread prove you wrong.

This (public breastfeeding or open carrying) is a hot button issue.


46 posted on 05/20/2014 8:22:14 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Louis Foxwell

I’ve been to many trade shows at McCormick Place,and the Jacob Javits Convention Center in NYC, and before you are allowed to enter you are screened for proper documentation. There are guards checking you in as you enter the hall.Children are never allowed, for safety and legal reasons.I don’t know how she was allowed in, she should not have been.Obviously she hid the infant in order to gain admission.

There are thousands of attendees who follow the rules, if they didn’t the convention center would be filled with strollers, baby gear, screaming toddlers, etc.

This is a business convention, not a playground. Why anyone would bring a ten day old baby to such an environment defies logic.

If this woman felt compelled to attend she should have left pumped breast milk at home with a care giver and her ten day old infant and attended to her business.

As Freud said “Sometimes the rules are just the rules”.


47 posted on 05/20/2014 8:22:59 AM PDT by COUNTrecount (There's no there there.)
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To: Wonder Warthog
try limiting your “no children” event to allow “babes in arms” and you will soon discover more than you want to know about todays realities of the selfish Mommy set

I guarantee people would bring 8 yr olds in strollers and babe sin arms who would just need a little toddling exercise in the midst if the crowd to stop the whining

Not to mention someone holding a true babe in arms. soft spot and all, and being jostled or knocked down in a huge adult trade show crowd

and then, there is the diaper- changing, another beautiful natural act some people choose to share in public

On tables, on floors, on chairs- and the trash cans (if they use them)- eeewwww

spoken as one who does MANY NO CHILDREN events and has barred a few indignant violators

48 posted on 05/20/2014 8:24:22 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Name one time that open carry has resulted in a subsequent loss of firearms freedoms in some place that wasn't already a liberal hell-hole.

/johnny

49 posted on 05/20/2014 8:24:37 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Wonder Warthog

There are plenty of other reasons to ban kids. Even a little arm bundle has the ability to start screaming and interrupt the show. Not to mention the show is probably pretty noisy and not too good on infant ears. And arm bundles don’t travel well without a lot of baggage, so that mom is taking up a lot more floor space than other attendees. They made their rules for their reasons, there’s nothing wrong with them sticking to them.


50 posted on 05/20/2014 8:25:42 AM PDT by discostu (Seriously, do we no longer do "phrasing"?!)
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To: Responsibility2nd
"Osborne, 31, knew about the trade show rule that does not allow children under 16, she said, but did not think it would apply to her sleeping, 10-day-old baby wrapped closely to her chest.

I think I've found the problem.

51 posted on 05/20/2014 8:26:11 AM PDT by Oberon (John 12:5-6)
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To: PetroniusMaximus

“NO CHILDREN” means NO CHILDREN. She has NO valid complaint.


52 posted on 05/20/2014 8:26:49 AM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Audentis Fortuna Iuvat)
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To: PapaBear3625
In this current age of lawsuits, exercising discretion is a sure way to get sued over "discriminatory" treatment. The rule was "no kids under 16". The baby is under 16. If they let her in, then they invite all sorts of complaints from other participants who took the time and expense to arrange for child-care away from the trade show.

Ding, ding, ding, ding ...we have a winner.

53 posted on 05/20/2014 8:28:59 AM PDT by tx_eggman (Liberalism is only possible in that moment when a man chooses Barabas over Christ.)
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To: JRandomFreeper
“You really don't like for people to lawfully exercise their God given rights, do you?”

No Johnny, I don't. Especially when they are trying to make a political point that I should not be allowed to carry a firearm in public.
Back in the old days, Johnny, they were called agents provocateur
But you are absolutely correct Johnny, I guess I should just keep my opinions to my self. By the way Johnny, I have been legally carrying a firearm for over fifty years.

54 posted on 05/20/2014 8:38:41 AM PDT by Tupelo (I feel more like Philip Nolan every day)
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To: Louis Foxwell
Of all institutions, the National Restaurant Association ought to be exceedingly generous in welcoming nursing mothers into their affairs.

"National Restaurant Association" trade show. Think about that. What's going to be there on display? Sharp chef knives. Cooking demonstrations involving hot stoves and hot grease. Heavy metal fry pans on tables, which can really hurt if they drop on you.

Their liability insurance company would pull their coverage in a heartbeat if they allowed young children to be running around.

55 posted on 05/20/2014 8:39:21 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: Buckeye Battle Cry; latina4dubya; Responsibility2nd

I will always support a working mom (and an entrepreneur) over a unionized, guberment asshat.

Have you ever dealt with the morons that run the facilities for trade shows?

If the mother runs the business and she has an infant that has to feed, then they should make an exception to their stupid rules. No one should be punished for having a child.


56 posted on 05/20/2014 8:45:06 AM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: Responsibility2nd

i guess rules only apply to other people...


57 posted on 05/20/2014 8:46:17 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: PetroniusMaximus
Have you ever dealt with the morons that run the facilities for trade shows?

yes, of course i have...

58 posted on 05/20/2014 8:52:40 AM PDT by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: Mears

Newborns do nurse every hour.


59 posted on 05/20/2014 8:53:53 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Sanity is the adequate response of the mind to the real thing: adaequatio mentis ad rem.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

let us see.... industrial restaurant equiptment..... drunk conventioneers.... sharp objects.... prototype promotions...

dangerous equipment with sharp edges and heating elements. NOISE on baby ears....

it would be a liability nightmare.


60 posted on 05/20/2014 8:57:38 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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