I have had a lactation room for employees. It used to be the father's changing room. Since this room wasn't used well. We turned it into a pumping room when we started out pump rentals back in 1995. Just this year we were fortunate to have an onsite day care in which our pump room isn't being used as often. Our entire unit is being renevated. I still plan to keep a space available.
Terri Klein
vgthorley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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Barb Lucas wrote:
I'm trying to justify an employee pumping room separate from the lactation
outpatient assessment room. (I work in a hospital). Aside from the fact
that the outpatient room would not be available 24 hours, does anyone have
any information on literature supporting a separate room for hospital
employees to pump and store their milk?
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Hi Barb -
Perhaps one day, in the not too-far-distant future, workers won't be seeking
an employee pumping room, but a workplace creche - so that mothers and
babies can *breastfeed* in their breaks, instead of needing to substitute
with *breastmilk-feeding* and all the paraphernalia that goes with that.
Then, and only then, will workplaces truly be mother-baby friendly and fully
support breastfeeding. I hope the day comes when the pumping facilities are
considered old-fashioned, and that workplace creches will be the norm.
Besides facilitating breastfeeding, workplaces creches have other
advantages, e.g. in less travel time for the parents, who don't have to drop
off and pick up the baby somewhere else.
At the moment, your focus is on getting a separate room when employees can
hand-express or plug in pumps and store milk. This is obviously the best
move you can make in your immediate work situation - for now - and I
recognise what you are doing.
Still, I live for the day when workplace conditions will be much more
mother-baby friendly in more and more workplaces. Back in the 1980s and
early '90s some of us were pushing for creches to be included in new
buildings where there were likely to be a lot of female employees of
child-bearing age. There was a dawning of interest in some unions, but the
whole thing has dropped off the radar with the emphasis turning to pumping.
Have we lost something? I think so.
Let's not just think of workplace creches as "pie in the sky", something
that is a a dream, rather than a realisable goal. If we really want
something, we can make it happen. It just needs the will, and some lateral
thinking to identify the barriers and find ways over or round them. Let's
think of pumping facilities as a temporary measure, till something better
can be done.
Virginia
in sunny Brisbane
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