You seem to think that by reading the comments made by Diane Carr to the Ann Arbor News that you know the whole story. Well, you don’t.

When Kelly first spoke to Diane on the phone to ask why she was told at the front desk it was ok and then embarassed by a lifeguard who later told her to stop, Diane told her that breastfeeding by the pool was “… a distraction to the young lifeguards.” Yes, I was there holding Ansley and helping Max finish dinner when this conversation took place. The “food and drink” excuse was never mentioned until the media got involved.

So shut up if you please.

If we, as lactivists, are going to fight for the right to breastfeed anywhere that a mother could bottlefeed, then is this incident really the right one to be pitching a fit about?

Are we looking for special rights?

Or, have we latched on to Ms. Fuk’s quote that she was told her nursing was “a distration?”

If we are, I see reason to be outraged, but consider the Y’s point of view.

From the very beginning they have stated that the distraction was the fact that the lifeguards had to take the time to go to Ms. Fuks and explain the rules. Not that they were distracted by seeing her nurse.

I’m just not so sure that we aren’t hearing a sensationalized piece of a news about a woman that was reminded that there was NO eating in the pool area and got upset because she didn’t want to have to deal with taking her other child out of the pool long enough to feed her baby.

If that’s the case here, I think we do a disservice to our cause to pitch fits about it.