Supermodel (and mother of two) Karolina Kurkova shared a sweet image of her nursing her second son this weekend, with a caption of “Taking a moment today to give thanks for the gift of breastfeeding…It’s not an easy process, but I encourage you to not give up!”
...We have posted previously about breast pumps through insurance care providers. Specifically, we are concerned that pump manufacturer Medela may not be providing insurance care providers (and consequently moms) with the highest quality pumps as they have in the past.
...Traveling mom Heather Gooch’s Facebook post to Southwest Airlines went viral last week as she wanted to publicly thank flight attendant Anissa for her compassion and consideration during a flight her family took from Fort Lauderdale, FL to Islip, New York over the holidays last month.
...For many years, I’ve lived away from my family and for holidays and special occasions I made a four-hour road trip to my parents’ house quite often and I never thought twice about it. I packed up my car with all my stuff, gassed up at the station and made my way up North to see my family for the holidays.
...We mothers know that our bodies are forever changed as soon as we become a mom, but research shared this year from Arizona State University is showing that a child’s cells cross the placenta and enter the mother’s body and then become part of her tissues and remain a part of her body long after she has given birth.
...A restaurant in the Houston, TX area is making headlines today for donating 20% of its proceeds from an event over the weekend to a local Milk Bank. The story behind the donation is a wonderful one.
...We’ve written about Ms. Courtney Jung’s ideas on breastfeeding before (see www.momspumphere.com/blog/entry/fired) but this week we are reacting to her new book “Lactivism: How Feminists and Fundamentalists, Hippies and Yuppies, and Physicians and Politicians Made Breastfeeding Big Business and Bad Policy” (Basic, 258 pages, $26.99) – and we haven’t yet read it entirely.
...New research shows that moms with gestational diabetes can signifcantly lower their chance of developing Type II Diabetes by breastfeeding their baby.
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1:(r)An employer shall provide—
(A) a reasonable break time for an employee to express breast milk for her nursing child for 1 year after the child’s birth each time such employee has need to express the milk; and
(B) a place, other than a bathroom, that is shielded from view and free from intrusion from coworkers and the public, which may be used by an employee to express breast milk.
2: An employer shall not be required to compensate an employee receiving reasonable break time under paragraph (1) for any work time spent for such purpose.
3: An employer that employs less than 50 employees shall not be subject to the requirements of this subsection, if such requirements would impose an undue hardship by causing the employer significant difficulty or expense when considered in relation to the size, financial resources, nature, or structure of the employer’s business.