First, congratulations to the company for having such a great policy  
for new mothers and their babies. Many companies are willing to  
arrange pumping facilities, but to allow the baby to come to work is  
much more unusual.

The company wants to reward or encourage breastfeeding, and EBM in a  
bottle is in that gray area. Then you get into the problem of not  
wanting or being able to check the milk in the bottle to see if it  
really is EBM. Babies need to be close to their parents, no matter  
how they are fed. Is the company worried that all the new moms and  
dads will want to bring their babies to work at once? Not likely.  
Even in the "worst case scenario" and all the people with kids under  
6 months bring them to work, how many people is that at any one time?  
How many people in each office or department? If it's a lot, have  
they thought about having on site child care? In either case, it is  
really very unlikely that too many people will take advantage of this  
policy.

Seems to me this is a wonderful opportunity for the HR department (or  
whoever has this job in this company) to look at the policies and  
really think about how they are supporting and can continue to  
support families. Keep in mind that this is a good kind of problem to  
have. Many people in this business would love to have the problem of  
dads and moms wanting to bring their babies to work so that they can  
feed them, even if it is through a bottle with EBM.

Naomi Bar-Yam




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Naomi Bar-Yam Ph.D.
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Researcher, Writer, Educator
in Maternal and Child Health
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