Pam says,

> .  A public pool in my county
> does not permit breastfeeding at the pool side (even with a fully clothed
> mother) because the management considers breast milk a biohazard.  The
> manager told a mother who was asked to stop breastfeeding that if any
> breast
> milk somehow got into the pool, they would have to evacuate

If breastmilk is a biohazard, then so is pee, sweat, spit & tears.  All are
bodily fluids.  Dollars to donuts, there is more pee in the pool than we care
to think about.

If it is a biohazard, why are we feeding it to our babies?

I don't know if the CDC has addressed breastmilk in a swimming pool exactly,
but they do not consider it something that we have to wear gloves to handle.
IOW, it doesn't fall under OSHA regulations.

Maybe you should write to the CDC itself and ask them for a definitive
statement that a couple of dribbled micrometers of breastmilk in a 1000
gallon pool full of chlorine does not mean evacuating the pool.

Refresh my memory -- it's been a long time since I've had babies -- but
aren't BABIES allowed in the pool?  Do they wear diapers?  Do they drool?
Shed tears?

Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC -- Wheaton IL - who is fed up with this  stupidity
on the part of "officials."
Lactation Education Consultants
www.lactationeducationconsultants.com

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