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- Establish a breastfeeding policy, and communicate this to all staff members.
- Provide orientation. (Contact the coalition or the Mississippi State Department of Health WIC
- Program for an orientation training for employees and on-site childcare center staff.)
- Provide a quiet, private area for employees to pump or express milk during working hours.
(A bathroom stall is not an option, being neither sanitary, nor private.)
- Allow breastfeeding mothers sufficient break time to express milk three times during an eight-hour shift
(20 minutes per session -mid-morning, lunchtime, and mid-afternoon is all a mother will need to
provide milk for her baby and maintain her milk supply.)
- Provide positive breastfeeding messages in the building to let employees know that you support
her decision to breastfeed.
- Inform expectant mothers that you support her decision to continue to breastfeed after
returning to work.
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