Is my landlord liable to provide a freezer for breast milk?

[Katie Bustos]

We rent in a condo building in Boston. Our fridge/freezer stopped working on Friday (6/10). A technician came out Saturday but didn’t have the part to fix it. He is planning to come 6/14 with the part to fix it.

we have a 5 mo old who is exclusively breastfed and had 5 months worth of frozen breast milk. My main concern was saving the milk. The PM had us place it in the shared freezer of the building. 

When dropping my baby off at daycare I noticed the frozen milk had thawed and is no longer good. (Once the milk is thawed it’s only good for 4 hrs and then must be tossed) That means the temperature of the freezer is not cold enough and all of the milk must be thrown away.

now, I have to pick up my son and have him with me all day so I can feed him. It’s interfering with my work plus the loss cost of daycare.

the lease says the landlord must make things livable. I would argue that not being able to store my sons only source of food, and with the current formula shortage we aren’t able to pick up any formula.  Also, I’m not able to store any breast milk so my only option is to have him with me while I work and feed him. 

Do we have any legal rights in this situation? On Saturday the landlord did agree to deduct $250 from our rent but is there anything else we can reasonably ask for? Reimbursement of child care? I’m at a lost.