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well that wasn't a very long story, but i think that is the stupidest thing ever. I don't think you can tell a woman where she can and cannot nurse. (assuming of course she is covering her exposed bosom!) anyway, that's all i have right now, thanks for the 30 hours of migraine i've been enduring! that's my 2 cents!
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I don't know how I feel about that. I'm a member of our local Y and I'd like to think that I could nurse my baby while MJ and Ms. Z are in the kiddy pool.
The life guards at my Y look to be all of 18 years old. So, I can see how they don't have the maturity level to deal with the biology of nursing. I also see their argument about food & drink in the pool area. What would be interesting to see is how they've historically dealt with moms with bottles. Realistically, I think the food/drink excuse is just grasping for straws to cover their butts.
So, I don't know how I feel about this. Maybe they should do a little education on their parts to make their lifeguards better informed or maybe they could dedicate a family room for nursing moms- equipped with toys to occupy older siblings.
Good Grief!!!! I have a LOT to say about this!
First of all, I am from MI. I went to school in Ann Arbor, lived in Ann Arbor, and worked AS A LIFEGUARD at an Ann Arbor pool (city, not the Y). I'm shocked about this because Ann Arbor is a very liberal, open, non-judgmental city. How it is that people find that offensive in the same city where "Queer Kiss-In Day" is held every year and the city gives benefits to same sex partners is beyond me. But feeind your child at the pool? No, THAT'S just CRAZY! Frankly, I would be more worried there about being harrassed if I WASN'T breastfeeding my baby.
Okay, and then there's the whole 'distracting' boobs at the pool part. If you are that distracted by a nursing mother, then maybe you need to work on your concentration or find another job. Eyes on the pool, people! There are plenty of swimsuits that would distract lifeguards enough without there being a baby attached to them. I'm sure that in the time I was guarding at the two pools I worked at, there were mothers nursing their babies on the pool deck, but either I didn't notice it or it wasn't so remarkable that it stuck out in my memory.
Here's my feeling on it. I am a fairly modest person, and when I needed to nurse M in public I did make sure I was as discrete as I could possibly be. I used a pumped bottle if I was able and found the most private spot I could (mostly because I was with an unpredictable toddler), but sometimes you just have take care of your child's needs, right then. If you're at the pool and your kids are playing and your baby needs to nurse, what options do you have? Pull your screaming children out of the pool and make them shiver (and scream some more) in the locker room while you nurse? Let your kids run all over without supervising them while you go in to nurse the baby (Um, THAT would distract me as a lifeguard, too)?
As for the no food/drink rule, I highly doubt anyone would have had a problem with that mother pulling out a bottle on theh pool deck to feed her baby.
I guess it's hard without knowing the whole story, but up front it looks like a bunch of hooey to me. I tink that, whenever a person is nursing, discretion is wise. If you are baring your entire chest in public and sitting there wiht your suit pulled down and nothing to cover you, well that's a problem. If you have the baby on a breast, though, and you're not flashing nipple all over the place, or if you are using a towel to be more discrete, I don't see what's wrong with that. I guess I would have a problem with someone nursing a child IN the pool, simply for the safety of hte child with the way he would be held and the risk of other children bumping into him and the potential of something happening because of it, but I seriously doubt that was the case.
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