Y Employee's Gaffe Leads to Breastfeeding Education

Employees of the Greater Boston YMCA will undergo training regarding a 15-month-old breastfeeding law in Massachusetts. The education push comes after a worker at one of its locations told a mother to stop nursing her child because it violated the Y's policy against eating in a child-care facility. State legislation protects mothers who breastfeed in public, stating that a woman "may breastfeed her child in any public place which is open to ... the general public," and where the mother and child are lawfully present.

"The employee misinterpreted this as a public health issue," Kelley Rice, vice president of the Greater Boston YMCA, told The Boston Globe. "It is not. We support a woman's right to breastfeed in our facilities." The employee, who was not identified, has been disciplined, according to a Y spokesperson.

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