Breast-feeding in public: US library apologises to Indian origin woman

New York, Sep 23: A library in New York has apologised to an Indian-origin woman after an employee of the public library asked her to stop breast-feeding her daughter in public. "We will be giving our staff additional coaching to remind them about the proper practice for maintaining a welcoming environment," CBS New York online on Tuesday cited a library statement as saying. Sherry Singh, a regular visitor at the Forest Hills library, was last weekend told to stop feeding her child in the library and breast-feed her four-month-old daughter in the restroom. "Me and my other daughter were playing with puppets, when this little one started crying. I started nursing her," Singh was quoted as saying. "An employee came over and told me not to breast-feed my daughter there," Singh said. Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said the law allows breast-feeding in public. "It has been the law for quite a while. It is every woman's right to breast-feed in public," Lieberman said. Singh has accepted the library's apology and is not taking any legal action, but she wants the story to go out to educate others.