Now, why does this stuff happen?  We have laws protecting breast-feeding moms, and allowing them to feed their babies pretty much anywhere, and the Colorado Governor’s Office made a visitor take her 5 month old baby to the basement with no air conditioning to breast-feed.  The poor mom tried to feed in the reception area on the couch (with her baby and body covered in a blanket), and the receptionist asked her to move to the basement.  Considering that this woman had probably been up all night feeding the baby anyway, the Governor should have felt honored to have her visit in the first place, and letting her feed her baby in the reception area would have been a nice gesture in the political sense, even though the office is legally required to do so.  Apparently, Colorado is a little slow to understand the rights of breast-feeding women, since a mom was cited in July for feeding her baby at Carter Lake in Larimer County.  The citation was later dismissed, so someone is getting the message. 

The Rocky Mountain News brings us this blurb about a family visiting the Governor’s Office for the first time with a hungry baby.  Breast-feeding is hard enough, and the moms who make this commitment are showing a huge amount of dedication to their children.  Hopefully folks will start getting the message and we won’t have too many repeats of this blunder.