Nordstrom mania
August 10, 2003 - 9:27 pm
Nordstroms is opening their first store in Austin next weekend. It sounds like a really swank place. I’m particularly excited about the shoe department, which carries ladies’ shoes up to size 14. There’s only one store in Austin where I can get a decent selection in my size 11, and their styles aren’t really my bag.
Anyway, Nordstroms has a special room for mothers that’s set up with comfortable chairs for nursing. Here’s a picture of it. Does anyone see the irony of the picture?
August 10th, 2003 at 9:30 pm
Well sure, you’re away from the whole crowd of the store to nurse, but you still have all the other ladies strolling past you on their way to the bathrooms…I guess privacy means different things to different people!
August 10th, 2003 at 9:32 pm
Nope, missed it. Look at the picture again. =)
August 10th, 2003 at 11:31 pm
duhhh, I don’ see it…help me out here.
(Remember, I’m not a mom and have never nursed ( well I mean…of course *I* nursed when i was a baby…ooooh, forget it) so maybe I don’t get it.)
August 11th, 2003 at 2:12 am
Ok, look at the picture on the door and tell me what it has to do with breastfeeding.
August 11th, 2003 at 3:08 am
nice bottle.
no, really.
i saw it before i read the other comments 😛
August 11th, 2003 at 3:09 am
ps: i think nordstrom sucks ass. but then i’m an old navy girl and haute couture was never really my thing.
i know they sell regular clothes because c.d. has bought some on sale for the girls there before. maybe i’m an imbecile for not being able to find them the one time i stopped in there.
August 11th, 2003 at 7:52 am
well, a breast is a built-in bottle?
Not all women breastfeed? Like if you adopt? I dunno, I’m just playing devil’s advocate 😉
August 11th, 2003 at 3:06 pm
For us hard-core boob nazis, it’s a pretty insulting sign. Nursing is about more than nutrition, it’s about bonding and closeness and helping jaw development and all that other good stuff. And lots of adoptive moms do breastfeed! See The Adoptive Breastfeeding Resource Website. Lots of times they use supplemental nursers. Their situation is a lot like some of us BFAR women who don’t have a full milk supply after a reduction.
Seems like they could have used a nice breastfeeding logo. The sooner we stop demonizing breastfeeding and treating the human breast like a sex object at those times when it should be treated as a nutritional device, the better.
*thunk* Off my soapbox.
August 11th, 2003 at 9:55 pm
I agree completely. Where I live, (Massachusetts) there are no “nursing lounges” but I never have a problem breastfeeding in public. About 3 years ago a 60ish woman approached me and said:
“You know they have seats in the bathroom for that!”
I was so insensed by this remark that I asked her if she likes to eat her meals in the bathroom. I only wish that we had a room where we could nurse and not be harassed by ignorant people. I would even let them hang their stupid bottle sign!
August 12th, 2003 at 2:52 am
nod… I’m almost (but not quite) upset that they feel they need to relegate nursing moms to a private room. This silly culture is so freaking hung up on glorified sweat glands. How the hell do people think babies have eaten for tens of thousands of years? WWJD? Nurse, that’s what.
August 13th, 2003 at 2:40 pm
you’ll love the shoe department at nordstroms. i don’t buy clothes there or anything, but shoes, yeah. you can wear them, then decide if you want them. if not, they’ll take them back, no questions asked. my feet are very weird so i know that merely trying on a pair of shoes isn’t enough. i have to actually be active in them. sometimes it takes four pairs to find what is actually comfortable and they never have issues taking the previous pair back. i think you’ll like them.
August 15th, 2003 at 7:07 pm
*snort* should send that photo to fark for editing, and then make a version with stylized boobs.