[r9etb]

If they want to nurse their babies, they can do it in the woman's locker room.

As long as they're there with only one kid.

This is a stoooopid rule. A towel over the shoulder, and the whole thing's invisible. And if the Y can't hire lifeguards who can be trusted to watch the water, then I'd say the Y has more pressing problems than breast feeding.

[mass55th]

Having nursed my own two kids in the privacy of my own home and no where else, I don't care to see or hear someone else do it in public, whether she is covered with a towel or not. Babies slurp, make noise when they nurse, and have to be burped. Frankly I don't want to have to hear somebody's kid suckling at their mother's breast. If mothers who feed their babies with bottles have to do it out of the pool area, then so should women who choose to nurse in public.

It might be a stupid rule to you, but if you don't allow anyone else to eat or drink in the pool area, then that should include babies as well. You don't do for one what you can't do for all. When you bend the rules to accommodate one group, another group will make demands of their own, and it will go on and on. Many breast feeding women substitute a bottle when they are out in public. Not all woman feel the need to advertise that they nurse.