~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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? ~~~~~~ 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 *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html