No Nursing With 'Distracting' Breasts At YMCA Pool

The Associated Press ^ | January 27, 2006 | AP

[Westlander]

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The lifeguards find bare breasts distracting.

That's one of the reasons officials at the Ann Arbor, Mich., YMCA said they've banned breast-feeding at the pool.

But nursing moms counter that's no excuse.

The breast-feeding mothers plan a nurse-in at the Y Saturday to protest the ban.

However, Krista Dragun, one of the protest organizers, said they'll be nursing their babies in the lobby, not the pool area. She said they want the Y to adopt a more mother-baby friendly policy for the pool.

Y officials note there's no eating or drinking allowed at the pool for anyone and nursing can be distracting for lifeguards. But they add mothers are welcome to nurse their babies in other areas of the facility.

[Westlander]

Typical for Ann Arbor, Mi. It's a Dimocrat city.

[Triggerhippie]

I get that there is a no eating or drinking policy at the pool, but babies don't seem to care about policies when they get hungry.

I am still scratching my head wondering what NON-Distracting breasts look like. (Please, Dear GOD, no pics!!!)

[Triggerhippie]

And CERTAINLY no pics of Helen Thomas!

[GretchenM]

they add mothers are welcome to nurse their babies in other areas of the facility.

Sounds reasonable to me.

[Paleo Conservative]

Thanks for keeping Free Republic abreast of this issue.

[Pro-Bush]

Don't want to distract the lifeguards!!

[TheCrusader]

"The breast-feeding exibitionist mothers plan a nurse-in at the Y Saturday to protest the ban show off their boobs while they're at their biggest."

[woofie]

All this frolicking is distracting too

[fieldmarshaldj]

[Hexenhammer]

I can only hope that the protesters don't go overboard and throw the babies out with the pool water.

[DakotaRed]

Whatever happened to breast feeding Moms descreetly covering their feeding child with a baby blanket?

[MissouriConservative]

"But they add mothers are welcome to nurse their babies in other areas of the facility."

Sounds as if it's an "in your face" thing and not really about mothers being allowed to nurse. In the old days women used to descreet about such things. Heck, why not let guys "hang out" at the pool if the mothers wish to breast feed?

[Mojave]

Can they change diapers by the pool?

[de Buillion]

I would like to see a man nursing his child. That would be totally distracting to me.

[newzjunkey]

Just Say No To Public Breastfeeding.

Have some consideration, modesty and decorum!

Collect. Store. Freeze. that breastmilk:

[Marie]

Whatever happened to breast feeding Moms descreetly covering their feeding child with a baby blanket?

When I had my daughter I was 21. When I had my son I was 23. Whenever I nursed my babies, I covered myself and their heads and did everything I could think of to be discrete.

Now I'm 35. If I were to have another baby now... Well, let's just say that, at this age, I don't see the point of suffocating my child so somebody else doesn't feel weird. As I've "matured" I just can't quite bring myself to care quite as much what other people think of me.

Maybe that's why God's stopped giving me children.

He was afraid for the lifeguards.

[newzjunkey]

They will get in your face. They'll complain the baby will pull the blanket off, will scream and tell you to try to eat with a blanket over *your* head.

Seriously. They're unhinged like the "Breasts not Bombs" or "Choice" types.

[BobS]

Are those MILFs?

[newzjunkey]

As I've "matured" I just can't quite bring myself to care quite as much what other people think of me.

As you've devolved with the coarsening of society, you don't care about silly things like decorum and civility. Everyone else be damned! You've aged, not matured, mam.

Are you sure you're on the right website? Maybe you'd be better off here?

[Triggerhippie]

That is totally wrong, Dude! LOL!