By Christine Escobar
In addition to the email Green Parent Chicago reader Lori received from the Garfield Park Conservatory (posted in the comments of the original article below), I received a call from Zvezdana Kubat, press office spokeperson, for the Chicago Park District this afternoon.
Kubat told me Mary Eysenbach, Director of Conservatories for the Chicago Park District and Eunita Rushing, President of Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance, have spoken to the security guard and the conservatory staff about the "innappropriate" way the guard responded to the mother nursing her baby.
According to Kubat, Eysenbach and Rushing "had a conversation with everyone and sat them down and let them know." Kubat elaborated further saying the talk between Rushing, Eysenbach and the employees specified that "a mother is allowed to breastfeed (at the conservatory) wherever she chooses."
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