Hi Chandra,

Congratulations on the progress all of you have made.

Last year, I e-mailed a message to both councils to support your efforts and
am glad for this update.  I'm also happy to see you use the following
wording in your first paragraph:

"[We] have successfully lobbied the Chandler and Tempe City Councils to
allow

children the right to breastfeed in places open to the public."

That is such an important point to keep reminding everyone that the child
has the right to eat when hungry.no matter where that occurs.

Yes, the mothers do need the protection of the law to be able to breastfeed
in public, but it is the right of the child to eat that also should be
respected and not violated.  Children have civil rights just as adults do.
Keep up the good work!

Best regards,

Lee Galasso, MS, IBCLC, RLC

Lactation Specialist

Westchester County in NY State

 

 

On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 20:37:30 -0700, Chandra Ruiz [log in to unmask]
wrote:

Dear Breastfeeding Supporters,

As many of you know, in June of 2005 I was approached by a lifeguard at a
Chandler city pool in Arizona and told to nurse my child in the restroom in
the future.  I was completely covered the entire time I nursed my then two
month-old son, Aiden. Since that time I, along with many other families,
have successfully lobbied the Chandler and Tempe City Councils to allow
children the right to breastfeed in places open to the public. The City of
Tucson has since created a similar ordinance and Flagstaff and Phoenix have
been requested to follow Chandler's lead.

While this started out at a city pool in Chandler and was taken up with the
Chandler City Council, mothers from across Arizona decided to work together
to take this issue to the state level. Our belief is that the state must
provide breastfeeding protection in the form of an exemption to the indecent
exposure statute and provide language that allows mothers the right to
breastfeed in places open to the public.  Breastfeeding mothers are
protected on federal property already, and nearly forty other states provide
protection too, including all of Arizona's neighboring states.

 


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