My dear friend had a bad experience at Disneyland in CA the other day.
This is her email (sent with permission from her) to Disneyland.  I
thought you'd all like it.  :-)  Sorry it's so long.

[log in to unmask] Date: Thu, Jan 7, 1999, 6:52pm  Subject: My email
letter to Disneyland
Okay... here is my email letter to Disneyland... sent electronically
this very moment!! :o) Do ya think they'll revoke my passes??
Hello!
We are So. CA residents and have visited Disneyland many, many times
over the years. Now that we have children, we find ourselves going more
frequently and have recently bought annual passes.
During a number of visits, we have frequented the Carnation Baby Center.
It's a lovely facility... clean.... peaceful atmosphere .... friendly
environment. Typically, I visit the center with my now 18 month daughter
to breastfeed her and change her diaper, while my husband tends to my
four year old son. However, with annual passes, there will now be many
trips I make during the week without my husband. One such trip occurred
yesterday.
I was very dismayed when I visited the baby center with my son and
daughter. After changing my daughter's diaper and allowing my son to use
the toddler toilet, I went into the nursing area with both children,
where I knew my daughter could nurse quietly without distraction and I
could have a much needed rest in the serenity and comfort of my
surroundings.
There was one other guest there, nursing her infant.
Just as I settled in to nurse my daugher, my son quietly and patiently
waiting in a chair beside me, the attendant told me that I couldn't
nurse there with my son!! I was extremely upset by this. She indicated
that, if I wanted, I could nurse out in the open area while my son
played with toys ... or I could "leave" my son "out there" in the open
area and she could "keep an eye" on him.
I was appalled for a few reasons. Foremost, was her assumption that I
would depend on a complete stranger (albeit park employee) to watch my
son for me. Second of all was the assumption that my four year old son
wasn't the one I planned to nurse (yes, folks, believe it or not, in
this day and age there are MANY families who allow their 4 year old
children to continue nursing). However, in this case, my son is not a
current nursling, so that wasn't an issue. Third of all, was my
irritation that a family park like Disneyland would, willfully and with
intent, strive to separate a mother from her four year old child for the
sake of some ridiculous rule that a four year old shouldn't be in a room
with breastfeeding women. As a matter of fact, MY four year old son is
more accustomed to seeing lactating breasts than he is accustomed to
seeing babies feed from bottles.
Of course I can fully understand that a disruptive toddler would not be
welcome in a quiet, private nursing area for a number of reasons.
However, my son was not given the chance to prove he would not be
disruptive, that he would instead do what has come naturally to him....
patiently and lovingly allow his baby sister to have a few quiet moments
of nursing.
Irregardless of my complaints, I love Disneyland Park. I wouldn't have
purchased annual passes for my family if I didn't love Disneyland.
However, in Disneyland's effort to keep my four year old son from seeing
another mother feed her child the way nature intended (and the ONLY way
my son knows babies are fed), Disneyland will instead find me nursing my
toddler daughter from one end of the theme park to another, exposing
many, many children, as well as mothers, fathers, grandfathers,
grandmothers, aunts, uncles, employees and Disneyland characters one and
all to the wondrous beauty and loving miracle of breastfeeding a child.
In essence, that is fine with me, because I feel everyone, including the
wonderful, magical world of Disneyland, deserves an honest education
about the right way of nourishing babies... and even toddlers!
Thank you for listening.
Suzie Calvin
Riverside, CA

(Did you all catch her email addy?)

Maggie
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Jonathan 2-12-97
Ryan, Jenna's twin, stillborn 1-10-92
two miscarried babies

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