Dear Cindy,
No wonder we have a non-breastfeeding society if adult students cannot
even bring their babies in class with them! I have been teaching nursing
for so many years now at the university level and I don't know of ANY
occasion when a student would have been denied this opportunity!
Anywhere in my university or any university I know in Canada, the
student could directly go to the Human Rights!

Right for her kid to be fed and right for her to feed her baby. This is
on these two grounds that the Supreme Court of Canada ruled out the case
of breastfeeding in public places such as malls, if I recall. Don't you
have this type of Bill in USA, the Human Rights Act?

If I was the student, I would write to the administration of the
university telling them she is denied the basic human right of feeding
her baby and of her baby to be fed, and I would send copies (and write
it in my letter that I send theses copies)  to the Human Rights
Commission and to the newspapers (local, regional and national, if
needed).... She also needs to bring this to the Board of the university
and get their official position on the matter...

This is also part of educating the public...again...

Good luck! Louise


Louise Dumas, R.N., M.S.N., PhD
Professor-researcher in Nursing Sciences
University of Quebec in Hull (Quebec)
and
Associate professor in the Master's program in Nursing Sciences
University of Ottawa (Ontario)

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