At a time when breastfeeding in public is already controversial, pictures of two military moms doing so while wearing their uniforms is sparking outrage.
The photo is part of a local breastfeeding awareness campaign by Mom2Mom of Fairchild Air Force Base, a support group launched in January by Crystal Scott, a military spouse
and mother of three. Among the intimate close-ups of smiling young
mothers cuddling their adorable babies, the images of the two airmen
stand out.
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"People are comparing breastfeeding in uniform to urinating and defecating in uniform. They're comparing it to the woman who posed in "Playboy" in uniform [in 2007]" Scott told Yahoo! Shine in an interview. "We never expected it to be like this."
"I'm an X-ray tech and I breastfeed in my uniform all the time," Scott
says. "Granted they're scrubs. But people do it all the time in their
uniforms. If you have a hungry baby, why would you take the time to
change completely.
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