Hello all. I am thoroughly ticked off right now. There was an incident yesterday in Sioux Falls, SD. A woman who was sitting pool-side at a fitness club, which is linked to one of the 2 hospitals in town, was asked to leave the pool area and nurse her 2 week old in the locker room. This mom was watching her 3 older children in the pool and was nursing discreetly-who cares- through a nursing shirt. She asked to see the director and was told that it is the policy at the wellness center to allow breast-feeding only in specific areas. She was told they would have a meeting with the board about 'letting' her nurse only if she used a cover-up!
I then let this story slip to an online mothers group sponsored by the local paper. The Wellness center posted that this woman was exposing herself to young children and they will keep their policy in place. I am running low on patience with the hostile environment here and want to know what to do. We currently have no LLL because we do not have a leader here. this is the biggest city in SD! I am a birth doula and help run a birth network and lately the climate is getting much much worse. I recently heard from a client that a lactation consultant, through the hospital, slipped a can of formula into her diaper bag during a consult!!! The mother, a NICU nurse asked what she was doing and the consultant told her it was in case nursing didn't work out. What should I do? I can't take this lying down and I am naive as to how I should get help with this. I personally want to fry the butt heads at the wellness center and I have talked to the director of the hospital who has called in risk management. I want to proceed and make some changes here, but I want some experienced voices to shed some light on this for me. Let the advice begin ladies, I need it!!
I then let this story slip to an online mothers group sponsored by the local paper. The Wellness center posted that this woman was exposing herself to young children and they will keep their policy in place. I am running low on patience with the hostile environment here and want to know what to do. We currently have no LLL because we do not have a leader here. this is the biggest city in SD! I am a birth doula and help run a birth network and lately the climate is getting much much worse. I recently heard from a client that a lactation consultant, through the hospital, slipped a can of formula into her diaper bag during a consult!!! The mother, a NICU nurse asked what she was doing and the consultant told her it was in case nursing didn't work out. What should I do? I can't take this lying down and I am naive as to how I should get help with this. I personally want to fry the butt heads at the wellness center and I have talked to the director of the hospital who has called in risk management. I want to proceed and make some changes here, but I want some experienced voices to shed some light on this for me. Let the advice begin ladies, I need it!!
