Over the past several years, I have helped hundreds of breastfeeding women in the work force and have found three tools that provide the most help to working mothers:
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Lactation Matters
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Mission possible!
In response to the ongoing request by conference participants, Wake AHEC set on a mission to establish a designated space specifically for breastfeeding mothers needing to pump or express milk while attending programs within the WakeMed Andrews Conference Center. Although the need has always been met by finding an available office, mothers needed a little more. A meeting of the minds to locate the opportune space was held between Karen Perry, Practice Administrator, WFP OB/Gyn, Sherika HiSmith George, Associate Director for Nursing Education, Wake AHEC and Jane Davis, Practice Supervisor, WFP OB/Gyn. This resulted in a quaint space on the second floor of the Conference Center offering a piece of comfort for mothers.
Thanks to the support of the Triangle Breastfeeding Alliance who facilitated grant funding from the MidSouth Lactation Consultant Association and to WakeMed who donated items. Mothers now have a warmly decorated space conducive to their breastfeeding needs equipped with a comfortable chair and ottoman, hospital grade breast pump (donated by WakeMed Lactation Services), stimulating artwork and soft lighting.
Here’s some good news to start the year: Remember the incredible news in 2010 that the federal health care reform legislation extended lactation accommodations to many employees nationwide?
Well, the news this week is that the Department of Labor has begun enforcing the law, sometimes known as “Break Time for Nursing Mothers.”
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Source:http://mommymolecules.blogspot.com/2010/07/web-comic-boob-in-bottle.html
Whether pumping at work, pumping at home for the occasional night out, or pumping to protect milk production while managing breastfeeding challenges, many mothers these days use a breast pump at some point during their nursing relationship. Regardless of the reason, it’s important to have good information, so below are tips to help you ensure that things go smoothly.
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Back in the day, breastfeeding was the only way to go because formula was not a safe option. In fact, the rates of death were somewhere between 50 and 90 percent, and the concoctions were something like bread broth, crumbs cooked in milk or water, or even milk with eggs and spices and sugar. Yiiiiikes! So the babies who did live on artificial food usually weren’t exactly thriving.
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The guidelines state that the following must be covered by private insurance: “Comprehensive lactation support and counseling, by a trained provider during pregnancy and/or in the postpartum period, and costs for renting breastfeeding equipment.”
The Department’s press release on the new policy says that “New health plans will need to include these services without cost sharing for insurance policies with plan years beginning on or after August 1, 2012.”
Not a bad way to celebrate World Breastfeeding Week!
The name of a recent study published in a scientific journal says it all: The Quiet Revolution: Breastfeeding transformed with the use of breast pumps. There’s no question that more babies get breast milk thanks to the more prevalent use of breast pumps, and that’s a good thing for the most part.
But Kathleen Rasmussen, co-author of the study and a professor of nutritional science at Cornell University, wants to add that with the advantages comes the risk of issues from pumping, and she wants scientists to have a chance to investigate those issues.
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It has been nearly a year since a reader, T., wrote asking for advice on becoming a family of four. Her son arrived in November, and, in spite of T.’s fears (and, perhaps, because of your wise advice) the transition of her daughter has been relatively smooth. As it turns out, her work colleagues are the ones who are having trouble adjusting.
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When Paige’s daughter was 6 months old, her boss called her into his office and demanded to know how long she planned to breastfeed.
Paige, a research assistant at a university in Tennessee, says she had been pumping three times a day for 20 minutes at a time, closing the door to her office so she could use a hands-free model and continue working. But her boss was unhappy.
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