Monday, May 29, 2006

Mum MP wins breast-feeding fight (ANSA.it - News in English)

House creche will be 'example' for working world, she says

(ANSA) - Rome, May 29 - An Italian MP has won her battle to get a nursery installed in the House so she can breast-feed her three-month-old baby .

"I'm obviously happy with this result but I wish it had come a little sooner," said Donatella Poretti, who has had to use the House's infirmary since parliament convened three weeks ago. Radical Party MP Poretti went as far as threatening to breast-feed little Alice in front of her fellow MPs after getting no response from two letters to House Speaker Fausto Bertinotti .

Now the House administration has found a suitable room, which until now was used by MPs' aides .


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