Working moms have new breastfeeding rights under the ACA

By Kathryn Doyle NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Under the Affordable Care Act, employers must provide time and space for new mothers to express milk for their babies until the child turns one year old. “This is a terrific opportunity to show businesses that lactation is important and that women should be accorded the right to provide milk for their babies,” said Dr. Richard J. Schanler, director of neonatal services at Cohen Children’s Medical Center of New York in New Hyde Park. This requirement has been “sort of on the books for a while,” Schanler told Reuters Health, but the ACA provision makes the rule concrete. “Most women go back to work and one of the problems women face is how are they going to provide milk for their babies, that tends to be a stumbling block,” he said.



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