If you give time for smoking breaks, you should for breastfeeding as well

[The Straight Story]

Businesses encouraged to become Breastfeeding Friendly

The Springfield-Greene County Health Department has launched a program to encourage area businesses to become breastfeeding- friendly.

One company is already setting that bar high for other businesses.

T-Mobile has a call center in Springfield that employs more than 700 people. Many of those employees are new moms. T-Mobile has a program that makes one of the hardest transitions for new moms, a little easier.

"it was nice to know it's there"

Carin White recently came back to her job at the T-Mobile call center in Springfield after giving birth to her son Jeremy. Carin wanted to continue breastfeeding and thanks to this room at T-Mobile she can.

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Evans says if an employer allows their workers time to take smoking breaks, they should be allowing time for breastfeeding breaks.

http://www.kspr.com/news/local/55019502.html

No olive garden, but hell we got T-Mobile on tap :rofl:

[ThomWV]

1. I can't see how one relates to the other, but if you had said drinking breaks - then OK

[The Straight Story]

2. Both require you to put your mouth on something and suck

Therefore, they are similar :)

[RagAss]

3. I'm all for it.....just let me know when they feed the breasts...I'll time it with my smoking break.

[FLDCVADem]

6. You owe me a monitor

For the coffee I just spewed on mine. :)

And I agree with this idea.

[DJ13]

4. Maybe do both at the same time?

[Blue_In_AK]

5. I'm glad to see somebody in Ohio has some sense

after reading this Ohio Supreme Court opinion that my daughter, the California lawyer and lactating mom, sent me today (with the message "Glad I don't live in Ohio"). "Ohio Supreme Court to Working Women: 'Lactate at Home Where You Belong'" http://trueslant.com/amandabecker/2009/09/08/ohio-supreme-court-to-working-women-lactate-at-home-where-you-belong/#more-40

[zbdent]

12. "Ohio Supreme Court to Working Women" ... Ohio's been controlled by

the Repukes since about 1994 ... took a while to knock off the Dem Senators, but they did that, too ...

Ohio's starting to come around ... but the religious nutjobs are still controlling the Repukes with their threats to pull funding if the Repukes vote for casino gambling ...

[Bluzmann57]

7. What about those of us who neither breastfeed nor smoke?

Just asking. :beer: <<<--------- Why not that?

[The Straight Story]

8. You get a break to watch the rest of em

:)

[TransitJohn]

9. Sweet.

Now since I don't smoke, I get a break to breastfeed? Who's going to supply the breasts for me, though?

[petronius]

10. Do smokers actually get extra breaks? I always thought that everyone got the

same breaks on the same schedule, and they were just called smoking breaks because that's what everyone did in the good old days...

:shrug:

[flvegan]

11. Okay, but do it outside in the designated areas.

I'm kidding of course.

[WillowTree]

13. My employer doesn't allow smoke breaks. In fact, smoking isn't even allowed on the property.

I don't know of any employees who bring their infants to work with them, but the company does, however, not only allow time for nursing mothers to go pump milk for their babies, they provide a special little room for them to do so equipped with a small refrigerator where they can store the milk separate from the fridges in the lunchroom.

[msongs]

14. ummm why are people taking their babies to work in the first place? nt

[bigwillq]

15. Leave the kids at home, or with a sitter or with a relative

why are they bringing their kids to work? :shrug:

Let me go make some calls and invite mom, dad and sis (and maybe a few friends) up to my work right now. :eyes:

[Berry Cool]

16. You guys are joking, right??

You do realize this refers to "pumping" breaks, do you not?

A breastfeeding woman can't continue breastfeeding unless she can pump out the excess milk once in a while when she's not around the baby to feed it. The milk doesn't just go away; after a while, it starts to hurt. THAT's what this is talking about--not bringing the babies to work to breastfeed.

To those of you who want to watch pumping...oh well.

[bigwillq]

18. That's fine.

As long as the kids are left home. There's been so many kids at our office lately. It's not a freaking day care.

[Berry Cool]

19. Perhaps there would be fewer children at work if the government subsidized day care.

Unless it doesn't want people to have kids at all. As it is, circumstances force many parents to both work to support a family; neither one can afford to stay home, and sometimes paying for someone else to care for the kids is beyond even their combined incomes.

[yawnmaster]

17. If I smoke and breastfeed do I get two breaks?...

Or do I have to smoke while I breastfeed?