Moms hold 'nurse-in' to promote public breastfeeding

Charleston Daily Mail - Sarah Ellison admits that she sometimes chickens out when it comes to feeding her daughter in public. "Sometimes I do chicken out and hide ? I'll feed her when I'm out to eat, but I'll get nervous when people look at me," she said. But on Friday, Ellison joined a handful of other women on the state Capitol steps for a "nurse-in" to help erase the stigma that sometimes comes with mothers nursing their children in public. Madison Fitzwater, a mother from Belle who nurses her 18-month-old son, said she helped organize the event to hopefully change perceptions and make breastfeeding in public commonplace. "If people don't see it, it isn't going to be normalized, and if people keep nursing in corners and in bathrooms, people are going to think that's where you're supposed to nurse," Fitzwater said. "My goal is that when people see nursing moms, it will be so normal that it will be like when you see someone feeding their child with a bottle." Stories of moms getting pushback f