• Supporting Nursing Moms at Work: How These 9 Medical Centers Answered the Call

    Supporting Nursing Moms at Work: How These Nine Medical Centers Answered the Call By Deborah Swanson Spring 2018 An interesting juxtaposition has emerged in the last 50 or so years: most major health organizations agreed that breast milk is the best source of nutrition for infants, and at the same time, more moms invested in their careers than ever before (almost 70 percent of mothers were in the workforce in 2015, compared with just 47 percent in 1975). Integrating breastfeeding into a full-time workday is a major challenge for new mothers, and studies show that workplace barriers contribute to low rates of breastfeeding. To address this, in 2010, the United…