City Kids Daycare Discriminates Against Breastfeeding Mothers

Robin Neorr enrolled her daughter in one of the City Kids Daycare available in downtown Columbus Ohio, and was charged an additional $50 per week to care for her three month old daughter because she was breastfed. While Neorr's infant daughter was still receiving care from the City Kids Daycare she felt uneasy drawing negative attention to the discrimination. However now that she no longer depends on them to watch her child Neorr is fighting back. Neorr was told by the City Kids Daycare that her milk was a hazardous body fluid that had to be kept separate from all other food. The bottles of pumped milk were kept in a separate refrigerator in the director's office and labeled as a biohazard. The daycare also claimed that they would have to purchase a separate warming pot for heating up the breast milk.