We know that the Affordable Care Act of 2010 helped working moms who nurse and/or pump breast milk at work. Last month, the U.S. Department of Labor announced further protections that will begin in December and there’s a big piece of the protection that will help working mothers: we have the right to break time and we should receive a private space to pump milk that is not a restroom.
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An adorable and special image of a breastfeeding baby is going viral as her mom seeks to nourish and bond with her baby during a difficult time. Baby Xenia has stage 3 brain cancer and mom Anastasia Pittis wanted to share with other moms how important breastfeeding has been for her as her child undergoes chemotherapy.
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Priya Nembhard and Kim Harrison have revolutionized the breastfeeding industry by creating the world’s biggest and most complete App that helps moms find, rate and share nursing room locations to breastfeed and breast pump. When they first launched the Moms Pump Here Nursing Room Locator App in 2015 with Version 1.0 they only had 500 nursing room locations in the U.S. Now, thousands of locations later the App is impacting moms in 7 countries and will provide more services though the launch of Version 2.0 (AKA Moms Pump Here Pro on Google Play) in May 2016 at the New York Baby Show! The Nursing Room Locator App is currently available on iTunes, Google Play Store, and Amazon.
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Chiropractic care can benefit moms in many ways. From improving posture to assisting with digestion, keeping proper alignment will carry over to other health care concerns. We reached out to Joseph Merckling, DC for some advisement for nursing moms. Check out the great information he shared with us.
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"Kindness is a gift everyone can afford to give." In honor of National Random Acts of Kindness Day, we wanted to share with you five ways to show random kindness to a working mom who breast pumps.
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By Selome Araya, MPH
Birth & Postpartum Doula
Reiki Healing Practitioner
By Jessica Shortall, author of Work. Pump. Repeat: The New Mom’s Survival Guide to Breastfeeding and Going Back to Work
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The Affordable Care Act (often called Obamacare) was implemented by most insurers on or after August 1 2012. The ACA made free breast pumps available to new moms through their health insurance, a plan intended to take away one of the biggest hurdles for a new mom. For the most part, moms who've taken advantage of this new baby bonus are satisfied.
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Are you a "kind" of mom? There are many kinds of moms: crunchy moms, nursing moms, helicopter moms, formula moms, full-time working moms (FTWM), part-time working moms (PTWM), stay-at-home mms (SAHM), work-at-home moms (WAHM), corporate moms, PTA moms, etc. We find ourselves attracted others that we deem as similar to ourselves within these groups we think we fall into.
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