Do a simple search on Google and you can find multiple incidents of YMCAs across the nation discriminating against breastfeeding women. It’s absolutely ridiculous, and it’s time they stopped. Their justification for this discrimination usually takes one of two tacts– either they claim it violates their “no eating in the *insert area here* rule,” or they claim that it violates their dress code because the mother is showing her midriff. Nonsense. Sometimes it’s prompted by a complaint by another member, to which I say, too bad. If you don’t want to see someone breastfeeding in public, don’t watch. We nursing mothers would actually probably prefer not to be stared at by complete strangers. But more often than not, it’s an uneducated employee who presumes to speak for the masses and the innocent children by claiming “no one wants to see that.”  Read more...