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A New Breast Pumping Law Has Gone Into Effect. Here’s What It Means.

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A New Breast Pumping Law Has Gone Into Effect. Here’s What It Means.

Enhanced regulations aim to protect a greater number of working parents.
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Building on a 2010 law, which compelled employers to provide breastfeeding accommodations, the PUMP Act was introduced in Congress in 2021. Support grew last summer amid the baby formula shortage and after the American Academy of Pediatrics issued new guidelines that support breastfeeding for two years or more. These events kicked off “a healthy debate” around the lack of institutional support for parents, said Sarah Brafman, a national policy director at A Better Balance, a nonprofit advocacy organization that helped draft the legislation. “There was a recognition that we need to be doing more to support pregnant and postpartum people,” she said.

More than 80 percent of babies born in the United States start out receiving some breast milk, but at six months of age, just 56 percent do. Research has shown that working mothers who have adequate time and space to pump are 2.3 times as likely to be exclusively breastfeeding at six months than those without such access.

“We know breastfeeding rates go down dramatically at return to work,” said Dr. Casey Rosen-Carole, director of the breastfeeding and lactation medicine program at the University of Rochester Medical Center. “Part of the reason for that is that if you’re not emptying your breasts regularly, your milk supply goes down. And if your milk supply goes down, gradually, breastfeeding ceases.”
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A little good news among all the antiabortion craziness.
 
Sounds good to me. If you don't use it you lose it.

It would be nice if the legislation allows for public milk pumping too. The taboo on breasts and nipples should go.
 
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