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.