The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists is advocating for new guidelines to help facilitate support for breastfeeding mothers.
“Dr. Stuebe insists that, given timely information, professional and workplace support, and hands-on help when needed, many more women would breast-feed their babies, and do so exclusively for the first half year of life,” explains Jane E. Brody in the New York Times.
Dr. Alison Stuebe is the lead author on the new guidelines brought forth by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. She was personally able to experience the realities of breast feeding, especially as a working woman, when she had her first child in 2011 and returned to her residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston post-labor.
The guidelines would encourage changes to paid maternity leave, on-site child care and a flexible schedule that would allow for breast pumping throughout the work day.
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