When my older daughter was younger, I depended on daycare to care for her while I worked.  Being a single mom, I had no other options until she was old enough to become a "latchkey child", in itself not a desireable option either, but she had outgrown the program and was mature and responsible and we had helpful neighbors, all the blahdeblah reasons to make it work.  Parents do have to make choices sometimes in order to make things work.

Which is why I totally understand the dilemma posed in the life of Ohio's Robin Neorr, mom to her three-month old breastfed infant.  Yay to Robin that she still pumped and nursed when she could, even though she was back to work and away from her child.  Breastfeeding can be challenging enough without having to work outside the home to boot.  However, a big giant "boo" to her daycare center, City Kids, for charging an extra $50 per month to "handle" Robin's breastmilk. An extra $50 per month that parents of formula-fed babies weren't charged.  An extra $50 per month to label Robin's milk as a "biohazard", to treat it as a "hazardous body fluid", and to basically send Robin the message that there was something wrong with her. 

The special treatment insisted upon by City Kids, by the way, goes against the Ohio Administrative Code's Rules (applicable parts of the Code are found here) for Licensed Child Care Centers, which does not insist on a special pot for warming the milk in or to keep breast milk separate from everything else, both things that City Kids required.

If you're the activist type, or you live in Ohio, or both, check out this post at The Lactivist to see what you can do about this blatant discrimination.  Robin has since pulled her child from City Kids and apparently is ready to go to town on the place.