In the October 27, 1997 (came out Tuesday) issue of Air Force Times an
article appeared "Former pilot loses lawsuit for time off to breast-feed".
She will repay an undisclosed amount of money the government spent to educate
and train her. She left after the Disciplinary Board sanctioned her last
winter for failure to report to work. Myers the lawyer said"she ultimately
got what she sought- time away from work to breast-feed her child." .
Isabella, born in May 1996, is no longer being breastfed.

My husband is in the Air Force and one of his co-workers breasfeeds her
daughter, while at work she pumps and while out of town for extended periods
of time takes her pump with her.  Her daughter is 9 months old. Many of the
mothers he has worked with did the same without suing the government. How
many employed civilian mothers sue their employers for not allowing them to
quit their job? Yes they can leave their job and stay at home .Military
employees know what they are signing when they sign their paperwork, she
should have realized she would have to go back to work and that she could
still provide breastmilk for her child even still. If the Army had given the
2 years she said Isabella needed what would have kept her from getting
pregnant again and another battle down the road? I do feel for them but it is
the choice they made... to be in the Army, to be married, to get pregnant, to
become a family.
Kim Joy
Air Force Wife, Mother of 3 Great kids and LLL Leader