22 February 2007

Please Help Spread the Word

Please help me spread the word about this asinine policy on the feeding of a breastfed child in a day care setting. The day care is City Kids Daycare in Columbus, OH. Due to breastmilk being a "hazardous body fluid" and the "extra trouble" to warm the milk, they charge an extra $50 per week for children fed breastmilk.

The Lactivist, Jennifer Laycock, (Click on The Lactivist) has started the crusade to end this discrimination. Her blog lists the phone numbers and email address of the director of City Kids Daycare.

I'll be emailing the director and sharing with her my dismay at this situation. Please spread the word on your blogs, discussion forums, to lawyers, the media...anyway that you can. As Jennifer stated in her blog, we cannot let daycare centers dictate what we feed our children.

I can't even believe that this is an issue?!?! I suspect the policy will be reversed after getting several hundred emails/phone calls. Unbelievable. Sorry I don't have time to write more, Jennifer covered all the bases in her blog.

1 People are even more brilliant:

Her Bad Mother said...

SERIOUSLY?

Heading over to the Lactivist. That is just messed up. (Wish that I could have come up with something more pithy or clever for my first comment here, but, hell, you got me on the jaw-dropper story, so it's your fault, really.)