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After being told she could not breastfeed without a covering, a customer said she left Simons Says Dip This ice cream shop in shock. Nursing was the only thing that would quiet her 6-week-old baby, she said.<\/p>\n

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An anonymous user took to Reddit<\/a> on Thursday to explain her interaction at the store\u2019s Durham location with the shop\u2019s manager, who told her she needed to cover herself while breastfeeding. The post received more than 300 comments in just 24 hours.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was so shocked that I got up with my family and left. While gathering our thoughts on the bench outside, my husband decided to go back in and let them know that it\u2019s illegal to ask someone to cover up\/stop breastfeeding,\u201d the Reddit post said. \u201cThe person responded that they were the manager and then her coworker chimed in \u2018I don\u2019t want to see that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the shop\u2019s owners, Audrey Simons, told The News & Observer that if she had been in the shop Thursday evening, the incident would not have happened.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have absolutely no problem with public nursing,\u201d Simons said. \u201cIf the baby\u2019s hungry, feed the baby. I don\u2019t care where you are.\u201d<\/p>\n

The News & Observer reached out to the Reddit poster but did not receive a response.<\/p>\n

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North Carolina law<\/a> permits women to breastfeed their babies in public with or without a covering.<\/p>\n

\u201cNotwithstanding any other provision of law, a woman may breast feed in any public or private location where she is otherwise authorized to be, irrespective of whether the nipple of the mother\u2019s breast is uncovered during or incidental to the breast feeding,\u201d the law states.<\/p>\n

Simons said that she received an email from the customer explaining the incident. She said she replied with an apology and posted a public apology in the comments of the woman\u2019s Reddit post, though it was taken down because of the forum\u2019s rules about users posting from accounts less than a day old.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sorry that that happened … I would never want something like that to happen here,\u201d Simons said. \u201cAnd I told the mother that she\u2019s obviously welcomed here without interruption. If she wants to nurse her child here, I have no problem with that whatsoever.\u201d<\/p>\n

Simons said the manager who talked to the breastfeeding mother is young and didn\u2019t know how to handle the situation. The manager reached out to Simons following the interaction to ask if she had handled the situation properly. Simons explained that she did not and the manager apologized, she said.<\/p>\n

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