Original Globe article with photo of mom Sophie Currier breastfeeding.
There are 2 pages to the original article in the Boston Globe, explaining
the problem. I wonder how this will get resolved.
Judy Ritchie
"Since the general testing room is shared by multiple examinees, the use of
a breast pump inside the testing room during the examination would be
disruptive to other examinees and is not permitted. Furthermore, the testing
rooms do not provide privacy since they are visually monitored," Farmer
wrote.
To her knowledge, Farmer added, the board has received few, if any, other
requests for accommodations for nursing mothers. She noted that scheduling
for the exam is highly flexible.
Currier, 33, said she is receiving some test accommodation. She has serious
dyslexia and attention problems -- she was featured in a Globe column last
year about adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder -- and is
thus given twice the usual time to complete the test: two nine-hour days
instead of one.
But from a breast-feeding standpoint, she said, that means two days of
problems instead of one.
In a letter she is drafting to the medical board, she is going to request an
extra 20 minutes of break time per day, she said -- the minimum she thinks
she can manage.
Lawrence said the nursing mother of an infant that age should pump at a
minimum of every three hours, for about one half-hour each time. The academy
recommends that babies be exclusively breast-fed for the first six months.
As for postponing the test, Currier is behind schedule because she failed
the test when she took it this spring, when she was eight months' pregnant,
she said.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/06/23/board_wont_relent_for_b
reast_feeding_mother/
http://tinyurl.com/2v4tjl
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