Saturday, August 06, 2005

Breast-fed baby, mom given cool reception: Rifle family was on tour of state Capitol

Five-month-old Nicholas Monroe got hungry Friday while touring the state Capitol with his parents.

His mom, 27-year-old Steph- anie Monroe, of Rifle, decided that two comfortable-looking couches in the reception area of the governor's office would be a good place to breast-feed him.

An office receptionist, she says, told her to go somewhere else, suggesting the basement of the building.

The basement, however, is undergoing renovation, has no air- conditioning "and there's construction workers all around," Monroe said.

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1 comment:

Ali said...

You'd think Colorado would have its act a little more together after their park rangers garnered national attention by wrongly ticketing a mother for breastfeeding her baby in public.