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A breastmilk-pumping mom says she was forced to pump her breastmilk at work under impossible conditions. Now she's suing her firm under a provision in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that protects women who need to pump while working.

Excerpt from What to Expect: 

Her suit alleges she was directed to pump in rooms that were unsanitary or insufficiently private, surrounded by dead bugs, filthy unfinished floors, and doors without locks. Bobbi says that coworkers harassed her for pumping. They brought her a bucket and jokingly compared her to a cow being milked. She goes on to say that at one point, she was told to use the first aid room for pumping. But male coworkers pounded on the door and yelled, in an effort to harass her. Bobbi says that when she complained, the company switched her day-shift schedule. Her next gig, time-wise: one with a rotating schedule that "frequently required her to work an overnight shift," according to a news release on the ACLU website. That gig, however, her lawyers claim, "disrupted her ability to breastfeed or produce enough milk to feed her baby."

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The NY Times reports that Pope Francis has endorsed public breastfeeding. The Pope said at a gathering,

 There are so many children that cry because they are hungry.

At the Wednesday General Audience the other day there was a young mother behind one of the barriers with a baby that was just a few months old. The child was crying its eyes out as I came past. The mother was caressing it.

I said to her: “Madam, I think the child’s hungry.”

“Yes, it’s probably time…,” she replied.

“Please give it something to eat!” I said.

She was shy and didn’t want to breast-feed in public, while the pope was passing.

I wish to say the same to humanity: give people something to eat! That woman had milk to give to her child; we have enough food in the world to feed everyone.

You can read the entire article at http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/17/pope-francis-encourages-breast-feeding-mother-in-a-public-place/?_r=2

(excerpt from The Huffington Post) 

"A new mother in Georgia has been shamed for breastfeeding in public, WXIA-TV reports. Dawn Holland says the manager at Applebee's called the police after she refused to nurse her 20-month-old son Connor in the bathroom.

According to WXIA-TV, Holland was breastfeeding in a booth when the manager approached and suggested she finish feeding her baby in the restroom or leave. She told the news station that she tried explaining her right to breastfeed in public -- Georgia is one of 45 states that have laws which allow mothers to nurse anywhere. And, the officer who responded to the call didn't even file an incident report."

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