Mums stage 'nurse-in' at shopping centre

By Judith Kerr
Updated January 30 2015 - 1:23pm, first published 12:39pm
BREASTFEEDING mums: from left, Carissa Patchett and Sebastian Patchett-Smits, 9 months of Macleay Island, Nicole and Marlon Siguenza, 21 months of Holland Park, Rhiannon Creamer and Esther, 21 months of Tingalpa, Alisha and Gwynevere Wood, 15 months and Lisa and Kaiden Ward, 10 weeks.
The mums staged a 'nurse in' after a mother was told to stop breast feeding in public.
Photo by Chris McCormack
BREASTFEEDING mums: from left, Carissa Patchett and Sebastian Patchett-Smits, 9 months of Macleay Island, Nicole and Marlon Siguenza, 21 months of Holland Park, Rhiannon Creamer and Esther, 21 months of Tingalpa, Alisha and Gwynevere Wood, 15 months and Lisa and Kaiden Ward, 10 weeks. The mums staged a 'nurse in' after a mother was told to stop breast feeding in public. Photo by Chris McCormack

A group of young mums staged a “nurse-in” at Capalaba Central Shopping Centre in Redland City, 25km south-east of Brisbane, on Friday after the centre’s security guard told Wynnum mother Shannon Hardie to stop breastfeeding in public.

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