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Local Mom Helps Promote ProMoM's Open Letter to Businesses Regarding Breastfeeding in Public

The open letter gives ideas to businesses handling occasional customer concerns regarding breastfeeding in public.

<Your City>, <Your State> -- Local mom, <Your Name>, helps spread the word that ProMoM (Promotion of Mother's Milk, Inc.) has written an open 
letter to businesses regarding breastfeeding in public and launched a new "For Businesses" section of their Web site, ProMoM.org.

The letter includes suggestions for business owners or managers when working with a customer who is breastfeeding in their business or when 
handling complaints about a breastfeeding mother. The letter also provides information about public breastfeeding laws and how becoming a 
breastfeeding friendly establishment benefits businesses.

<Change this to Your Quote> "I see a lot of emails that go around on the internet and articles in the news where an employee tells a mother to 
stop breastfeeding or to move to a bathroom, etc. I want businesses to see this letter from ProMoM so that they educate their employees to be 
more accommodating to their breastfeeding clients and breastfeeding moms will not be treated with disrespect nor harassed," said local mom <Your Name>.

"It is our experience that many of these incidents start with nice people that may be unaware of the laws that protect a mother's right to 
nurse her child in public.  Sometimes employees may not be aware of their company's breastfeeding policy or the company simply does not have one. 
Other times the employee may not have experience with handling a breastfeeding related complaint," said ProMoM Executive Director Carrie Patterson.

ProMoM hopes that by promoting breastfeeding and nursing in public, more people will accept that breastfeeding is a natural everyday occurrence, 
and the normal way to feed infants and young children. ProMoM also wants to support businesses and expectant mothers by showing them that it is
possible to breastfeed in public discreetly and without anyone being embarrassed. You can see more information and tips on breastfeeding in public 
at http://www.ProMoM.org/nno.

"Because mothers know we support breastfeeding in public, we are often a contact point for mothers who have had trouble nursing in a businesses," 
said ProMoM Executive =Director Carrie Patterson. "We hope the suggestions in the letter and in our new 'For Businesses' section provide a launching
 pad for companies to establish breastfeeding friendly policies and initiate training for their employees."

Nursing benefits both the child and the mother. ProMoM.org lists 101 reasons to breastfeed. Benefits to the mother include a decrease in her risks of 
breast and ovarian cancers as well as a boost in her weight loss efforts. Breastmilk also gives a nursing mother more freedom, flexibility, and safety 
while traveling and shopping with an infant. Breastmilk is always ready, always at the right temperature, comes in an environmentally friendly package, 
and fresh breastmilk is never contaminated with bacteria. Among the benefits for the child are: decreased risk of major diseases such as cancer, 
diabetes and asthma. Breastfed children also have lower risks of illnesses such as ear infections and diarrhea. 

The Open Letter to Businesses and more information about the For Businesses section can be found online at http://www.ProMoM.org/businesses or by 
emailing ExecutiveDirector@ProMoM.org.

ProMoM is a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing public awareness and public acceptance of breastfeeding.
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