Last year, I participated in a drive-by television interview (less than one minute) with South Carolina ETV about breastfeeding mothers returning to work.  While I was discussing the importance of workplaces having dedicated, private and sanitary spaces for breastfeeding mothers to pump, I posed an unplanned, hypothetical and visual question.

 “How would you like it if your lunch was prepared in a public restroom?”

I was referring to organizations that claim to be friendly to breastfeeding mothers because they grant them a few, sporadic minutes throughout the day to go to their public restrooms to relieve their engorged breasts of the sustenance from which many of our newly born exist.

Consider Exhibit A: this post’s picture.  Though it looks like I performed some Photoshop magic to create this “nursing lounge” (notice the sign on the stall on the right), I promise that I saw this poor excuse for mother-friendliness while traveling through one of our nation’s busiest airports, which will go nameless to protect the guilty. Though, I will give you one hint.  It’s named after a United States President elected within my lifetime.  OK, here’s another hint.  His wife had something to do with those green and white “Just Say No” T-shirts we adored and cherished so much back in the 80’s that we vowed to live lives free from substance abuse. 

I rarely use the camera feature on my phone, but this was certainly a Kodak moment.  They say, “A picture is worth a thousand words.”  Here are my five:

Disgusting!

Gross!

Are

You

Serious?