Resources and Materials

Useful Information

CDC Recommendations for Inclusion or Exclusion of Infants at work

Nevada WIC

Evidence-based Breastfeeding and Parenting Resource

Breastfeeding

Best for Babes primary objective is to act as a catalyst in the breastfeeding and mainstream media community, and shift the focus OFF parents and on to the barriers that are keeping them from making educated decisions. For more information visit:

Breastfeeding made simple describes the 7 natural laws of breastfeeding and problem solving techniques for mothers facing difficulties to help get back on track. Visit this site at:

The United States Breastfeeding Committee is an independent, nonprofit coalition of more than 50 nationally influential professional, educational, and governmental organizations that share a common mission to drive collaborative efforts for policy and practices that create a landscape of breastfeeding support across the United States. Learn more at:

Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine is a worldwide organization of medical doctors dedicated to the promotion, protection, and support of breastfeeding. Their mission is to unite members of the various medical specialties with this common purpose. Explore what this website has to sat at:

La Leche League International’s mission is to help mothers worldwide to breastfeed through mother-to-mother support, encouragement, information, and education, and to promote a better understanding of breastfeeding as an important element in the healthy development of the baby and mother. Read about their worldwide movement here:

The Office of Women’s Health has a great FAQ style page about creating lactation spaces and out of the box lactation space ideas for companies to utilize. For more assistance with your space creation, visit this website:

Breastfeeding resources in Southern Nevada

CDC – Breastfeeding

Office of Women’s Health: Breastfeeding

Nevada Breastfeeds Toolkit

Videos

Stanford University Educational Breastfeeding Videos

 

Legal

1. The Legislature finds and declares that:

a) The medical profession in the United States recommends that children from birth to the age of 1 year should be breast fed, unless under particular circumstances it is medically inadvisable.

b) Despite the recommendation of the medical profession, statistics reveal a declining percentage of mothers who are choosing to breast feed their babies.

c) Many new mothers are now choosing to use formula rather than to breast feed even before they leave the hospital, and only a small percentage of all mothers are still breast feeding when their babies are 6 months old.

d) In addition to the benefit of improving bonding between mothers and their babies, breast feeding offers better nutrition, digestion and immunity for babies than does formula feeding, and it may increase the intelligence quotient of a child. Babies who are breast fed have lower rates of death, meningitis, childhood leukemia and other cancers, diabetes, respiratory illnesses, bacterial and viral infections, diarrheal diseases, otitis media, allergies, obesity and developmental delays.

e) Breast feeding also provides significant benefits to the health of the mother, including protection against breast cancer and other cancers, osteoporosis and infections of the urinary tract. The incidence of breast cancer in the United States might be reduced by 25 percent if every woman breast fed all her children until they reached the age of 2 years.

f) The World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund have established as one of their major goals for the decade the encouragement of breast feeding.

g) The social constraints of modern society weigh against the choice of breast feeding and lead new mothers with demanding time schedules to opt for formula feeding to avoid embarrassment, social ostracism or criminal prosecution.

h) Any genuine promotion of family values should encourage public acceptance of this most basic act of nurture between a mother and her baby, and no mother should be made to feel incriminated or socially ostracized for breast feeding her child.

2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a mother may breast feed her child in any public or private location where the mother is otherwise authorized to be, irrespective of whether the nipple of the mother’s breast is uncovered during or incidental to the breast feeding.

AN ACT relating to public health; requiring certain employers to provide reasonable break times and a place for an employee who is a nursing mother to express breast milk; prohibiting an employer from retaliating against an employee for certain actions relating to this requirement; authorizing a public employee who is aggrieved by an employer’s failure to comply with this requirement or for retaliation by the employer to file a complaint; requiring the Local Government Employee-Management Relations Board to provide for an expedited review of such complaints by local government employees; exempting certain small employers and contractors from this requirement; authorizing the Labor Commissioner to enforce the requirement against a private employer; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

Sample Policies

DHHS Infants in the Workplace Policy

DHHS Infant-At -Work-Individual Plan

DHHS Infant-at-Work-Discussion Checklist

DHHS-Infant-at-Work-Waiver

DHHS Request for Break Times and Place to Express Milk

DHHS Nursing Mother Info