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Links: Working & Pumping Tips

Tips for moms who work & pump

WorkAndPump.com is a wonderful source of information for pumping moms

Working & Pumping Message Board at ParentsPlace.com

Pumping, Working and Breastfeeding FAQs from LLL

Working and Breastfeeding by Pamela K. Wiggins, IBCLC

Working Mom Q&A from the ParentPlace.com lactation consultant staff. Includes questions on expression and storage of breastmilk and mom/baby separation issues.

The Working Mom from Breastfeeding.com

Working and Breastfeeding articles from LLL

Working & Pumping Includes a working & pumping guide, FAQ, pumping tips, and more.

The Working Cow. "You can give your baby the best even if you have to work." A website by a working mom.

Milk expression tips & pump information Links @

Exclusive pumping Links @

Breastfeeding and the workplace

Workplace Lactation: Support for Breastfeeding Employees by Susan Kobara, CLE, Corporate Lactation Consultant

Breastfeeding Support Within the Workplace from the US Centers for Disease Control

Breastfeeding Women and Work from the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA)

Building Breastfeeding Friendly Communities from the Wisconsin Breastfeeding Coalition. Includes many resources for supporting breastfeeding in the workplace and in childcare centers.

Working & Breastfeeding..."It's Worth It!" from the Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition of Washington State

Lactation support information from University of Michigan Work/Life Center. Includes information on how supervisors can support breastfeeding employees, a guide to setting up a lactation room, and a lactation icon, free of charge to any college or university, for use as a lactation area sign.

"Breastfeeding Welcome Here" Campaign from Motherwear

Worksite Support for Breastfeeding Employees from Motherwear

PDF Workplace Breastfeeding Support from the U.S. Breastfeeding Committee

PDF Checklist for Accomodations in the Workplace from the U.S. Breastfeeding Committee

PDF Balancing Breastfeeding and Work is a booklet of information for employers and employees from the Commonwealth of Australia

MOMobile from the Maternity Care Coalition offers detailed information on working and breastfeeding for mothers and employers, including information on how to establish a breastfeeding-friendly workplace.

Sample letters to employer from the Maternity Care Coalition

Supporting Moms is Good Business: CIGNA's corporate lactation program pays off

Childcare and the breastfed baby

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Handouts for your caregiver @ :

  • Free Handouts, including Human Milk Storage - Quick Reference Card and How to bottle-feed the breastfed baby (with feeding/diaper record)

A Caregiver's Guide to the Breastfed Baby from the Australian Breastfeeding Association

Caregiver’s Guide to the Breastfed Baby by Anne Smith, IBCLC. There may be times when, for a variety of reasons, nursing mothers need or want to leave their nursing baby with a caregiver. This information is intended as a guide for the caregiver of a breastfed baby, so she/he can better understand how to care for the baby and the expressed breastmilk left for the baby’s use.

Supporting Breastfeeding in Child Care from the Canadian Child Care Federation

How to Support A Breastfeeding Mother: A Guide for the Childcare Center; curriculum and handouts from the Texas Department of Health Breastfeeding Promotion website

Building Breastfeeding Friendly Communities from the Wisconsin Breastfeeding Coalition. Includes many resources for supporting breastfeeding in the workplace and in childcare centers.

PDF Breastfeeding and Child Care from the U.S. Breastfeeding Committee

Childcare from AskDrSears.com

What can happen if a mother's milk is given to the wrong child?

"HIV and other serious infectious diseases can be transmitted through breastmilk. However, the risk of infection from a single bottle of breastmilk, even if the mother is HIV positive, is extremely small. For women who do not have HIV or other serious infectious diseases, there is little risk to the child who receives her breastmilk."

- source: US Centers for Disease Control Breastfeeding FAQs

Misappropriated Human Milk: Fantasy, Fear, and Fact Regarding Infectious Risk by Barbara B. Warner, MD, FABFM and Amy Sapsford, RD, CSP, LD.

PDF Breastmilk Misadministration Policy from the California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative. Provides guidelines for action when an infant is fed “unprocessed” human milk from a mother in the NICU other than his/her own mother.

Are special precautions needed for handling breast milk?

"CDC does not list human breast milk as a body fluid for which most healthcare personnel should use special handling precautions. Occupational exposure to human breast milk has not been shown to lead to transmission of HIV or HBV infection. However, because human breast milk has been implicated in transmitting HIV from mother to infant, gloves may be worn as a precaution by health care workers who are frequently exposed to breast milk (e.g., persons working in human milk banks)..."

- source: US Centers for Disease Control Breastfeeding FAQs

"No special precautions exist for handling expressed human milk, nor does the milk require special labeling. It is not considered a biohazard. The Universal Precautions to prevent the transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Hepatitis B virus, and other bloodborne pathogens do not apply to human milk."

- source: US Centers for Disease Control

Page last modified: 08/17/2010