I don't know about any laws on this as I'm a very out of practise English lawyer. However I do know a thing or to about persuading someone to do something. We have special facilities with video links for children to give evidence in abuse cases in some courts. I asked our Victim Support rep at the local court hypothetically if this could be used for a nursing mother. He said they would discuss this at their next meeting but I didn't hear anything. In this country it would probably be at the discretion of the judge to allow baby in. To make a good case for mother using these facilities get as much history of her individual circumstances that make her need to breastfeed.Even if its a third cousin with breast cancer, allergies of her grandmother etc the great thing to gain sympathy from someone (the judge )whose own children may have been in daycare from a few weeks, have been formula fed or formula fed his children etc. Explain the risk to her health ie engorgerment, blocked ducts maybe mastitis from the separation seen by many as just normal. And give the court's admin staff as much notice,in triplicat of course! so they can start or move the case to a court with links. Of course your judges may allow the baby into the court in which case, well done. Your state law depending on the state may protect the right to nurse, but we don't have that here. Susan Stockwell _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html