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West Texas A&M University officials say they’re going to “review” their policy on mothers who are nursing their infant children.<\/p>\n

Why? Because a young mother who was visiting the Canyon campus decided to breastfeed her child in the Virgil Henson Activities Center\u00a0swimming pool.<\/p>\n

It sparked a bit of a tussle at WT over the school policy.<\/p>\n

From where I sit, I do not believe the school needs to tweak its policy, which appears to be quite reasonable, logical and appropriate. It fits with community standards.<\/p>\n

The young mother in question, Alicia Pino, most interestingly, acknowledged that feeding her child in the pool was inappropriate. She left the pool and went to a private room to continue feeding her baby.<\/p>\n

As NewsChannel 10 reported: “They said no you don’t have to leave, but we prefer you be covered and if you’re not covered, then you need to go into a room,” says Pino.\u00a0“And I told them you are walking on very thin ice telling me that I need to be covered or that I need to be in the room. I said it’s my civil right to feed my baby wherever I want to.”<\/p>\n

Thin ice? Really?<\/p>\n

WT officials say the school policy, which provides\u00a0private rooms if the mother requests it. If not, then the school asks young mommies to cover themselves.<\/p>\n

I must ask: Is that so unreasonable?<\/p>\n

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Let’s all be clear about something. We live in an urban society that over many, many years has imbued in us a sense of modesty. Women generally don’t expose themselves — even to feed their children. And yes,\u00a0 I understand fully why women have breasts in the first place.<\/em><\/p>\n

WT, though, isn’t being overly prudish with its requirements on women who have to feed their children. Any parent — mother or father — knows that when a child is hungry, then it’s time for the child to receive nourishment.<\/p>\n

Should the school revamp or retool its policy?<\/p>\n

No. If it complies with state law and guidelines, that’s good enough.<\/p>\n\n

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West Texas A&M University officials say they’re going to “review” their policy on mothers who are nursing their infant children. Why? Because a young mother who was visiting the Canyon campus decided to breastfeed her child in the Virgil Henson Activities Center\u00a0swimming pool. It sparked a bit of a tussle at WT over the school … Continue reading Now it’s breastfeeding …<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6251,9],"tags":[6335,5312],"class_list":["post-15394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-news","category-local-news","tag-breastfeeding","tag-wtamu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15394"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15398,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15394\/revisions\/15398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}