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South Beach Moms Protest Starbucks to Protect the Right to Nurse in Public Change Babies on the Tables

Oh, this makes me mad (and maybe not for the reasons you might think):

Moms protest South Beach Starbucks...to protest the expulsion of a woman named Nicole Coombs from the store. Coombs claims that she was asked to leave for breast-feeding her 4-month old son. The Starbucks manager, however, maintains that Coombs was asked to leave for changing her baby's diaper on one of the tables in the cafe.

If you look carefully through the claims and statements made by the mom (Nicole Coombs) and the Starbucks manager, it seems pretty clear that neither was being particularly smart. But the thing that burns my ass is that Ms. Coombs has the nerve (it seems to me) to use the rights of nursing moms as a hammer against the store... she wants revenge, so she spins a tale of nursing woe. I doubt very much that she was asked to leave simply for nursing. That's the kind of store policy that will get a Starbucks manager fired. They run a pretty tight ship, and tend not to make Wal-Mart style mistakes. (I would like to interject here as well that I would very much like that nobody ever change their baby on the table of any restaurant or publick haus... thank you.) Of course, if she's telling the truth, and her story can be corroborated, then I'm wrong and they have every right to hold a nurse-in. But if she's just out for revenge and famousnous and free diapers (or whatever), then a pox on her house, and may her baby turn away just after let-down, screaming and yammering with impatience. Also, bless that baby--as well as yours. May they all have as much milk as they need, wherever they choose to have it. Listening to “Busting Up a Starbucks” by Mike Doughty from the album The Gambler - EP on

Tags: breastfeeding | diaper | mom | moms | nursing | diaperchange | southbeach | starbucks.

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