New Chicago-based initiative makes ‘Room at the Table’ for breastfeeding moms at restaurants

Chicago Tribune

Center

Factuality

Ownership

New Chicago-based initiative makes ‘Room at the Table’ for breastfeeding moms at restaurants

As a mom of three girls, Khallilah Watkins isn’t new to the process and preparation it takes to breastfeed a baby outside of the house. One time with her second daughter, she had to hunker down in a restaurant bathroom for a few minutes to pump. “That was my first experience pumping in a restaurant and inside of a smelly public bathroom because I was like, where else am I going to go?” said Watkins, a social media manager at the Oliver Agency. “…