jury duty
It’s finally happened: I’ve been summoned for jury duty. Ironically, I’m interested enough in the judicial system to be curious about being a juror, but I’m still breastfeeding Spice and I don’t have childcare available. Really, really not wanting to serve right now, I did some Googling.
Turns out that in the state of California, breastfeeding mothers can defer their service for a year and can continue to do so as long as you BF for. As usual, lucky us here in Cali; some states are so hostile to BFing moms that you can be arrested and jailed for missing jury duty because you are BFing a baby. This is mind-boggling to me. What do you do if your baby doesn’t take a bottle? Or if you’re plagued with supply problems? Ugh. The whole thing is just wrong.
- Find out if your state has family-friendly jury duty laws.
