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BumRushDaShow

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8. "do women not breast feed anymore????"
Sun May 8, 2022, 02:58 PM
May 2022

Do employers allow them to while at work?

That has been a major problem over the past couple decades. I know the young women I worked with years ago (and even my own sisters when they were pregnant) had breast pumps to express the milk and then refrigerate it while at work to bring home. IF they had their children in daycare, some would accept those bottles of breast milk to store for feeding the baby during the day, but others required that they be on formula.

Believe it or not, during the pandemic, for those who had the option to work at home and who hadn't weened their infants - they could breastfeed "at home". But once some were forced back into the office, then all bets were off.

This is why the rest of the world gives women a good number of PAID months off for maternity leave and infant care to be able to do this.

But the U.S.?
You can guess.

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