GREEN BAY, Wis. (NBC 26) -- Bay Beach Amusement Park has since reopened after releasing plans to ensure safety during the coronavirus pandemic. They have also added new nursing and pumping rooms on the second floor of the main pavilion thanks to a generous donation from H.S.H.S St. Vincent and St. Mary's Hospitals.
The rooms offer a private space for a mother and her family to pump or nurse. Britney Burkart-LaBar is the Assistant Manager at Bay Beach Amusement Park and a mother herself who says sometimes mother's just need that private space to help with a distracted baby to feed or if you have more than one child and need to keep an eye on your older child while you feed your baby.
There are three rooms available and each room has a chair, fan, changing table and activities for older children you may have with you and need to keep entertained while feeding.
Wisconsin State Law protects mothers feeding their babies in public and Burkart-LaBar says she encourages mothers to feed their babies wherever they feel comfortable on the property, but adds that she hopes this is an addition for others who may not feel comfortable just yet or have a baby that is distracted easily while feeding.
The second floor of the main pavilion area is blocked off to guests, but is available to mothers looking to use the rooms. Burkart-LaBar says to just ask an employee and they will get you and your family upstairs safely.
Each room also has an open and closed sign to signal if a room is in use. They ask you just flip the sign over to make sure other guests know it is in use. There is also extra cleaning supplies in each room if guests want to sanitize the space again, but the rooms will be monitored and cleaned after each use by an employee.
H.S.H.S St. Vincent and H.S.H.S St. Mary's have also included in each room some resources to mothers who may need help or assistance with lactation or have questions. They also included their breastfeeding helpline phone number in each room, that number is (920) 497-3737. You also learn more about their milk bank resources on their website.
