Great story AND an excuse to post a picture of Angelina Jolie breast feeding. Everybody wins! The Greater Boston YMCA will train its 1,500 employees in Eastern Massachusetts on the state's breast feeding law, after a worker at its Woburn facility told a mother to stop breast feeding her child because it violated the Y's policy against eating in a child care facility.


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Elizabeth Gomez , a mother of three from Medford, said she was told by a Y employee to leave the baby-sitting area of the North Suburban YMCA after starting to breast-feed her three-month old son earlier this week. "She said there is no eating or drinking within the (babysitting) area," Gomez, 36, said in an interview Thursday. "She told me I had to go out into the hallway . . . I said 'I have a lawful right to be here." A YMCA spokeswoman said the part-time employee, who was not identified, has been disciplined. "The employee misinterpreted this as a public health issue," said Kelley Rice, vice president of the Greater Boston YMCA. "It is not . . . We support a woman's right to breast-feed in our facilities." A state law protects mothers who breast-feed in public. It states that a mother, "may breastfeed her child in any public place which is open to . . . the general public," and where the mother and child are lawfully present.

Source: It's fun to breast-feed at the Y - M - C - A [Off Topic]

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