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MOM WINS BOOBY PRIZE LIBRARY OKS BREAST-FEED

The Brooklyn Public Library was forced to apologize to a new mother after a security guard scolded her on two occasions for breast-feeding her daughter in a children’s book area.

Midwood mom Danielle Glanvill said she was harassed by the same female security guard on separate visits to the Flatlands branch on Feb. 20 and March 6 while nursing her 2-month-old daughter, Anais Leslie Caillet.

“She was uncomfortable with the flesh of my breast being exposed and told me what I was doing was ‘inappropriate in front of the children,’ ” the 34-year-old schoolteacher told The Post.

“But the children were fine with it. I said, ‘How do you think they ate when they were young?’ ”

The library apologized to Glanvill in writing after the single mother of two contacted the New York Civil Liberties Union and threatened to take legal action. The guard was transferred to a different branch because of the incident.

New York law grants a woman the right to breast-feed “in any location, public or private.”

“Breast-feeding is not a crime, and the right to breast-feed is simply not something that I am willing to give up,” said Glanvill.

During both confrontations, Glanvill was with her daughter and 2-year-old son, Matias Detroit Caillet, in the branch’s children’s-reading area awaiting a free show with other families.

On Feb. 20, Glanvill said that she was ordered to stop nursing and that the security guard angrily walked away after Glanvill tried explaining the law.

During the March 6 incident, Glanvill spotted the guard staring at her as she breast-fed and asked the guard to stop because “it made me feel uncomfortable.”

In a March 19 letter, the library’s general counsel stated that the guard was transferred and that, among other measures, a memo explaining the state breast-feeding law went out to the staff of all of the library’s branches.

rich.calder@nypost.com