American Airlines is doing the apology two-step after learning that the mother of a young child was told by a flight attendant that she could not use her breast pump on board a recent flight to Chicago. [More]
American Airlines Apologizes To Mom Over Breast Pump Brouhaha
By April 26, 2013
Breastfeeding Moms Say Mall Security Called Cops On Them
By January 7, 2013
Delaware may be the home of tax-free shopping, but a trio of mothers say it’s not the home of hassle-free breastfeeding after their pro-nursing protest drew the attention of law enforcement. [More]
Should Hospitals Stop Giving Out Free Samples Of Baby Formula To New Moms?
By April 9, 2012
It can be hard to turn your nose up at anything that’s offered for free. But are hospitals doing more harm than good when they give out free samples of brand-name baby formula to mothers of newborn babies? [More]
Breastfeeding Moms Stage Nurse-Ins At Targets Across Country
By December 28, 2011
Earlier this morning, groups of nursing moms gathered in Target stores around the country to stage “nurse-ins” to protest what they believe is the retail chain’s anti-in-store-breastfeeding stance. [More]
Breastfeeding Delta Passenger: Flight Attendant Publicly Humiliated Me
By August 16, 2011
Earlier this week, a traveling mom who had just boarded a Delta flight from Indianapolis to Raleigh, NC, decided it was a good time to nurse her 8-month-old. A flight attendant didn’t agree. You can imagine how this one goes from here. [More]
Breast Milk Ice Cream Confiscated From London Shop
By February 28, 2011
When we wrote about the London ice cream shop that had made a frozen treat from human breast milk, some readers wondered about the legality and/or safety of such a product. Well, they weren’t alone, as local authorities decided to confiscate the ice cream until those questions were resolved. [More]
London Ice Cream Shop To Offer Scoops Of Frozen Breast Milk
By February 24, 2011
If you’ve ever wondered what ice cream made from human breast milk might taste like, a London shop will soon have the answer. [More]
Breastfeeding Mom: Dunkin' Donuts Staff Called The Police On Me
By November 16, 2010
We know that breastfeeding in public — specifically in eateries — is a divisive topic, but does nursing a baby ever merit contacting the authorities? [More]
Breastfeeding Moms Stage "Nurse-In" At Arizona McDonald's
By August 23, 2010
A manager at a McDonald’s in Glendale, AZ, recently asked a woman to leave the building after she began nursing her baby in the restaurant. That manager is obviously not a reader of Consumerist, or else they would have been prepared for the inevitable backlash, which came this weekend in the form of dozens of moms staging a “nurse-in” inside the McD’s. [More]
California Is A Hotbed Of Rogue Nurses
By June 29, 2010
Where can nurses go after they’ve been sanctioned elsewhere for misconduct? To California, it seems. The state’s Board of Registered Nursing launched a review, spurred on by a Los Angeles Times/Pro-Publica investigation last year, and discovered 3,500 nurses who have licenses in California even though they’ve lost their licenses in other states; 1,700 of these nurses currently have active licenses. In more than half of all cases, the sanctions were for serious violations such as “sexual abuse, neglect, rampant drug use and criminality.” [More]
Obamacare Provides A Room To Pump Breast Milk In
By April 11, 2010
Whether you are a proponent of breastfeeding or not, the reality is that working mothers who do nurse their children need a place to pump during the workday, and the bathroom just might not do. Luckily for them, the new health care bill signed by President Obama includes provisions for nursing women in the workplace. [More]
Whistleblower Nurse Acquitted
By February 12, 2010
The West Texas nurse who went on trial this past Monday for reporting a doctor to the state board was found not guilty after just an hour of deliberation, reports the New York Times. The jurors who spoke to the Times after the case said it seemed pretty cut and dried to them. Now the nurse’s lawyers are focusing on their civil lawsuit against the county, the sherrif, the county attorney–who is described in the article as the surgeon’s personal attorney as well–and the hospital administrator who fired the nurse for going over his head. Hooray for whistleblowers! [More]
Whistleblower Nurse On Trial For Reporting Doctor To State Board
By February 8, 2010
Update: After four days, the nurse was acquitted. [More]
Playtex Came Through Where Toys R Us Failed In Replacing Broken Breast Pump
By January 25, 2010
The thing about breast pumps is when they break, you can’t exactly sit around for several weeks waiting for a kindly CSR to get you a replacement. Kids need bottles and moms need to relieve the pressure so they can get work. [More]
IKEA Sends Mother And Infant To Bathroom To Breastfeed
By July 23, 2009
The IKEA in Red Hook, Brooklyn is the latest retail establishment that needs reminding: Yes, women have the right to breastfeed their infants in public. No, you cannot banish them to the restroom. Yes, people will get angry when word gets out.
Forced Arbitration: As Fair As A Sucker Punch
By April 27, 2009
We at Consumerist really hate mandatory binding arbitration, the faux-legal sucker punch that companies deliver when they screw up and you try to sue, and so should you. We’ve talked about its evils a lot, but no one can describe this legal abomination as well as the victims themselves, so this week we’ll let them speak.
Nurse Laid Off In The Middle Of Surgery
By April 14, 2009
When Dean Health System in Madison, Wisconsin announced last week that it “planned to ‘immediately’ lay off 90 employees,” it wasn’t kidding around. One of them was a nurse who was pulled out of surgery to be told the news.
Time For Plan B? Top 10 Recession-Proof Jobs
By July 21, 2008
Forbes has a list of the (supposedly) most recession-proof jobs, and oddly “funeral home director” isn’t among them. How strange… The list is very heavy with accounting work and jobs that require computer skills with a little nursing and sales thrown in for variety. Seemingly missing from the list is the guy who “deals with the goddamn customers so the engineers don’t have to.” Oh well.
