WSU-SES/Extension Economics/Exporter's Toolkit/Health Economics/Breastfeeding & Maternal Employment
Breastfeeding & Maternal Employment
Success of Strategies for Combining Employment and Breastfeeding (pdf version)
Disentangling maternal decisions concerning breastfeeding and paid employment (Powerpoint; pdf version)
Hard at Work: Breastfeeding Changes Between 1992 & 2007 (pdf version)
"The Effect of Work Status on Breastfeeding Initiation and Duration." Presentation on Infantfeeding Research at the Annual Meeting of American Public Health Association, November 2009.
Work accomodations for breastfeeding
| Variables | Northwest States (%) |
Other States (%) |
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| Accommodations in the first month after return to work | |||
| Brings infant to work, breastfeeds during the work day | 40.9 | 38.8 | |
| Goes to infant to breastfeed during work day | 4.5 |
7.9 |
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| Infant brought to mother to breastfeed during work day | 4.5 | 2.5 | |
| Pumps milk and saves for infant | 53.8 | 36.4 | |
| Neither pumps nor breastfeeds during the work day | 18.2 |
10.5 | |
| Work Characteristics | |||
| Workplace is very supportive of breastfeeding: prenatal | 45.4 | 33.8 | |
| Workplace is very supportive of breastfeeding: postnatal | 63.2 |
51.9 | |
| Outcome | |||
| Weeks of breastfeeding after return to paid work | 31.3 | 26.1 | |
Contact Info
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