Fifteen nursing moms did what 15 nursing moms do on Wednesday in San Francisco, and one of them even got an official apology for being hassled for having done it.
“We’re sorry about that,” said Dan Kaplan, a deputy director for the city Human Services Agency, after the women staged a protest at the front door of the building at 170 Otis St., where one of them had been berated by a security guard for breast-feeding in the waiting room.
The mothers were upset over what happened to Mildred Musni when she dropped by the office with her infant some weeks ago for a routine appointment and was instructed by a security guard either to stop breast-feeding her 4-month-old son, Eliseo, or to cover herself while in public.
State law says that mothers may breast-feed in all public places.
Matters came to a head in the courtyard of the human services building, when the women were told they would have to wait for permission to enter and conduct their nurse-in in the same waiting room where Musni had been reprimanded.
A security guard, who Musni said was the same one who had previously dressed her down, appeared and demanded that news photographers stop taking pictures.
When the last dirty diaper was placed into the trash bin, the Otis Street Nurse-In concluded and the mommies dispersed.
