Call 4 Action: Breast Pump Policies

http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com...355/detail.html

January 19, 2005

Women who use breast pumps to release milk do it for comfort reasons, but also to ensure that the milk is continually produced for their babies.

Call 4 Action reporter Meghan Jones says employers must provide a place for working mothers to do it.

However, women are on their own when they're outside their homes or offices. 

(see link above for full article)

(its the new frontier in breastfeeding advocacy - not only requiring employers to provide space and facilities to pump, but public places like hotels and airports, too. yeh!!!)

Janice Reynolds
Saskatchewan, Canada

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